Roles and Responsibilities • Ownership of the strategic vision and roadmap for all products within their domain. • Establishes the contribution that technology can make to business objectives, conducting feasibility studies, producing high-level business models, and preparing business cases. • Ensures compliance between business strategies, enterprise transformation activities and technology directions, setting strategies, policies, standards and practices. • Responsible for effective and timely development of new and/or enhanced systems/technologies. • Monitors all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle and Production Support service levels. Ensures high level technical support is provided. • Works closely with customers, other IT managers, and management to identify and maximize opportunities to use technology to improve business processes. • Prepares business cases, including financial analyses of potential new technologies/systems/applications. Evaluates based on company strategic needs and resource availability. • Oversees business analysis, development work and quality assurance of projects for assigned systems/technologies. • Contributes to the development of information technology development standards, policies, processes and procedures to ensure consistent compatibility and integration throughout the company. • Continuously reviews the technology needs of supported business functions/processes relative to new technological developments and trends. Keeps abreast of the industry and emerging technology Skills • Broad knowledge of software development techniques, processes, methods and best practices. Proficiency with various programming languages. • Knowledge of application test automation products, processes, and best practices • Proven experience and strong understanding of Agile development and conventional method and its application to company technology needs. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively lead and motivate team. • Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation & consultative skills for effective collaboration with senior management. • Good general business acumen. • Thorough knowledge of databases technologies, both relational (such as Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL) and non-relational database technologies as such as Memcached, MongoDB and Redis. • Experience with Insurance / Reinsurance Systems and Data. • High level knowledge/expertise of Front-end development such as: ReactJS, Webpack, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, Accessibility and Responsive Layouts UI/UX development experience