Vice President of Engineering (Insurance Domain)

Skills

Job Specifications

Role: VP Engineering
Location: London, UK
Contract position- Initially 6 months (Possible Extension)

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.
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

About the Company

Adroit People Ltd is a top-notch technology firm focused to deliver Staffing Services, IT Consulting, Implementation and Support Services in UK, Europe, USA, Asia-Pacific and Middle East. Adroit People Ltd creates and implements value-added solutions to its clients. It has got an excellent range of competencies in the implementation, maintenance and support of various technologies including ERP, Oracle and Web Technologies. As an end-to-end solutions/services provider, we strive to give the best solutions to our customers,... Know more

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