Tata Group Looking for Vice President – Information Technology at Mumbai Full Time

Role Summary:

. Build and Lead teams of insurance product delivery to own, drive & deliver new products, relaunches & innovative product solutions across Solutioning, Development & QA

. Partner with product development, business and IT teams in driving product roadmap, optimization of product implementation timelines to help launch products in optimal timelines

. Keep abreast of industry updates across technology, products and build solutions enabling future readiness of TALIC business requirements

Product Development

. Work closely with Product and actuarial team to understand business plan, align prioritization and define the technology roadmap to deliver as per need

. Oversee Architecture & design of technically robust, flexible and scalable product solutions.

. Engage with different teams in IT, BSG and business teams to drive product technical structuring, solutioning, requirement closures, development approach & testing of new products, modifications, day 2 features and innovative product solutions

. Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market of releases, while incrementally helping business towards the sales objectives and long-term vision.

. Mange the IT product organization & processes to enable timely delivery of projects with high quality.

Delivery Excellence

• Use the agile technology methods across development & testing to ensure faster releases. Drive improvements in our processes by continuous monitoring

. Engage with product, operation peers and stakeholders to ensure timely inputs enabling technology delivery

. Create and manage metrics across life cycle to enable management updates, analysis for improvements

. Keep updated with industry updates, regulatory guidelines and insuretech information to align innovations accordingly

People Management

. Ensure right coordination between multiple streams of delivery, solution/dev/testing teams to achieve to drive high delivery capabilities

. Collaborate with Business Solution, Tech delivery leads to ensure relevant techno-functional insights of larger insurance & application and mentor team

. Be responsible for mentoring and developing techno-functional talent.

Skills Required

Technical

. 10+ years of Insurance product development experience along with software development and 5+ years as a leadership role.

• Prior experience as Lead/ Head of Tech delivery in rapidly growing or innovative larger company. Hands on candidate is a must!
• In depth understanding of product life cycle, individual life products, systems design, and systems architecture, security framework in relation to life insurance company

. Deep Understanding of products, actuarial, underwriting, distribution & other key functional areas.

. Fair understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems

. Experience in defining best practices for product development life cycle and agile development

Others

. Strong analytic and quantitative skills ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions.

. Strengths in problem-solving, issue resolution, ability to work in stringent deadline-driven work environment, attention to detail, and ability to multitask.

. Strong verbal and written communication skills with a demonstrated experience. Engaging and influencing peers and executives.

. A strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive.

. Being a strong leader, mentor, and people manager.

. Ability to work in a cross functional environment with a collaborative mindset

Incumbent Characteristics

Essential

Desired

Qualification

B.E

IITs

Experience

Min 15 – Max 20 years

– Life Insurance Products

– LifeAsia/Ingenium or similar insurance apps technical knowledge

– IT Development, Solutioning

– Product Delivery Head in Insurance