Job Description
Appealing Points: - Core IT leadership role at a global insurance firm Drive modernization and product development using Mainframe and AS400 technologies, playing a key role in shaping the company’s next-generation IT infrastructure.
- High-impact role for seasoned professionals Utilize 20+ years of software development and leadership experience to oversee full-cycle project delivery, strategic planning, and enterprise-level application transformation.
- Bilingual, global environment with executive visibility Collaborate with international, cross-functional teams and communicate directly with executive stakeholders, expanding your global business and leadership skills.
Annual salary: 8 Million and above
Job Responsibilities:
- Executing product development in Mainframe as well as supporting corporate products in AS400 for group insurance, as well as two managed services platforms of insurance product development. Products developed are a combination of Life, Medical and Investment products with variable and single premium type options.
- Oversee the end-to-end systems delivery and execution of plans in close collaboration with business & other IT groups while ensuring alignment of information systems plans with business strategies.
- Lead the team in planning, building, operating, enhancing, sustaining, and maintaining the relevant portfolio of business applications and processes across the enterprise.
- Oversee the portfolio of projects from planning to delivery and sustain support to ensure that projects meet defined business objectives, time and budget constraints, and architecture standards.
- Oversee the development and implementation plans for feasibility assessment, solution design, metrics, and performance measures.
- Define, plan, design, and implement policy admin/agent commission/corporate systems that meets long-term strategy & is sustainable for the next generation.
- Develop and implement a modernization strategy for the mainframe policy admin systems to enable a cost-efficient and sustainable technology stack for legacy technology-dependent product solution
- Rationalize policy admin systems that would simplify product development and enable to achieve faster time-to-market
- Build strategic and technical relationships with all senior leadership to drive the technology vision and goals.
- Provide thought leadership and transformation recommendations in business application software solutions for various products and services under the remit.
Job Qualification:
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, Engineering, Computer Science or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Approximately 20 or more years of experience in software development including leadership roles focused on next generation technology and platform development
- Ten or more years of applicable experience in managing systems delivery teams in complex environment, large scale, environments including management of sourced services
- Ten or more years of applicable experience in establishing and managing vendor relationships.
- Experience with Cloud, digital technologies and agile development methodologies/environments
- Proven program/project management experience in implementing complex business applications including integration of disparate applications.
- Strong execution experience in Agile delivery of large portfolio.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and teaming skills; skills and experience in executive level communication and presentations
- Bilingual proficiency at business level in English & Japanese
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead and inspire a high-performing engineering team, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
Leadership Competencies:
- Motivates People - Gains people commitment to achieve business objectives through clear communication of the company’s vision and flexing leadership styles to inspire high performance.
- Creates Partnerships - Builds trusted relationships and collaborates across global, diverse and multi-functional teams to successfully drive business objectives.
- Grows Talent - Inclusively and pro-actively develops talent, empowers individuals and manages diverse teams to drive engagement and performance.
- Models our Values - Creates a culture that promotes the company’s values and standards through role modeling, accountability and ownership of decisions.
- Drives Results - Sets aggressive goals and is accountable for continuously driving improved performance, leading change and ensuring high standards.
Language Skills: Business level Japanese (JLPT N2) and Business level English
Company Description
Our Client has operations in more than 40 countries and holds leading market positions in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. We are ranked #43 on the Fortune 500 list for 2018.With over 150 years of experience, the companies offer life, accident and health insurance, retirement, andsavings products through agents, third-party distributors such as banks and brokers, and direct marketing channels. Our name is recognized and trusted by approximately 100 million customers worldwide and we serve more than 90 of the top 100 FORTUNE 500 companies in the United States.
Job Requirements: Japanese JLPT N2, English 2, AS400 technologies, insurance product , Development, Mainframe , Agile , Engineering, software development , Cloud
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