Assistant Vice President, Delivery Lead – ODP EIS

FWD Life Insurance Corporation; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

FWD Group is seeking a senior engineering leader to own and drive the technical delivery of value for the One Data Platform Enterprise Information services. You will shape the technology roadmap, lead multi-country engineering teams, and partner with executives to deliver innovative, cloud-based insurance solutions with AI capabilities.

The role requires deep expertise in insurance systems, cloud architectures (AWS/Azure), APIs and microservices, and a track record of delivering complex

Qualifications

• 15+ years engineering leadership experience in Insurance/Financial Services.
• 10+ years IT delivery experience on insurance systems.
• Cloud architecture with AWS or Azure.
• Delivery leadership in Life and GI insurance transformations.
• Experience with APIs, SOA and microservices.
• Experience with AI driven technologies.

Responsibilities

• Stay abreast of AI and emerging tech; evaluate impact on data platform offerings.
• Define and drive technology roadmap for One Data Platform aligned with business goals.
• Lead engineering teams to deliver incremental value to business units.
• Coach teams; foster continuous delivery of customer value.
• Lead DevOps and cloud innovation roadmap with market & tech leaders.
• Design cloud infrastructure and maintain CI/CD pipeline and automation.

Skills

Insurance domain

Cloud architecture

Microservices

DevOps

AI technologies

APIs

Data warehousing

Multi-country PM

English communication

Tools

AWS

Azure

CI/CD

Kubernetes

ETL tools

Job description

About FWD Group

FWD Group (1828.HK) is a pan-Asian life and health insurance business that serves over 40 million customers across 10 markets, including BRI Life in Indonesia. FWD's customer-led and tech-enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy-to-understand products and a simpler insurance experience. Established in 2013, the company operates in some of the fastest-growing insurance markets in the world with a vision of changing the way people feel about insurance. FWD Group is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code 1828. For more information, please visit

PURPOSE

Entrusted with comprehensive ownership and leadership duties, which includes forging strategic partnerships with C-suite Executives across BU to create and manage the technical delivery of value with a common approach with both internal and external resources, leveraging Agile and Engineering expertise.

KEY ACCOUNTAIBILITIES

• Stay abreast of AI and other emerging technologies and evaluate their potential impact on One Data Platform Enterprise Information services platform offerings to drive futuristic technology solutions. Drive innovation experimenting with new technologies, frameworks, and best practices
• Define, strategize and drive the technology roadmap of One Data Platform Enterprise Information services aligned with business goals to deliver best in class business systems
• Visionary leadership to One Data Platform Enterprise Information services engineering teams to meet expected benefits and business outcomes. Create & keep the momentum through simplifying the long-term strategic outcomes to continuous deliveries of incremental value to the Business Units
• Foster a culture of continuous delivery of customer value aligned with FWDs overall Vision and Strategy
• Lead to define key problems during delivery of the initiatives and identify right & practical solutions to resolve these constructively
• Support architecture governance through use of effective metrics that inform and influences executive decisions
• Coach team and develop capabilities to ensure the continuous and frequent delivery of value to customers and stakeholders.
• Foster close stakeholder engagement and management across all initiatives
• Lead to define the Devops and Cloud innovation roadmap and implementation strategy with Market teams and Technology leaders across One Data Platform Enterprise Information services platform, driving the adoption of the new innovative technologies
• Define measurable and quality metrics for solutions as assigned as they have a sizable impact on the business performance at each market and require advanced judgement to develop new and practical solutions
• Design the cloud infrastructure that supports the organization's velocity which includes creating and maintaining the continuous delivery pipeline toolchain, including continuous integration, automated builds, automated build verification testing, and automated deployment
• Ensure optimal resource allocation of team capacity, and continuous improvement of team performance and their technical and non-technical competencies on One Data Platform Enterprise Information services Delivery

QUALIFICATIONS / EXPERIENCE

• 15+ years experience in engineering leadership and technical Leadership within Insurance / Financial Services Industry
• 10+ years IT delivery experience on technological solutions across insurance systems
• 15+ Years of total IT experiences on various technologies
• Architecture and Design expertise with AWS or Azure Clouds
• Delivery Leadership Experience in Life and GI insurance domain systems and transformation Programs
• Well versed with system integration, APIs, Service Oriented Architecture and micro services architecture
• Experience in AI driven technologies
• Experience building, integrating, deploying and provisioning business services

KNOWLEDGE & TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Solid knowledge in Insurance domain and Insurance system architecture
• Thought leader and comprehensive understanding of financial services, Insurance, Transformation, Agile, Project delivery
• Solid knowledge in engineering standards and practices
• Proficient in various technologies like Micro services, Api's data warehousing concepts and tools, ETLs
• Expertise in multi country Program Management in Agile Delivery
• Deep knowledge on latest and emerging technologies and practice, such as AI, DevOps, Cloud, Microservice, APIs and Mobile App
• Exemplify good interpersonal communication skills at all levels of business users, markets, IT, partners and vendors
• Good command of spoken and written English.