Chief Engineering & Investments Tech Leader

thehivecareers.co; Charlotte Amalie (United States Virgin Islands); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

The Head of Engineering at thehivecareers.co will lead the software engineering and technology development functions, shaping strategy, architecture, and delivery across insurance and investment platforms, APIs, and digital channels.

You will oversee cloud-native, microservices, DevOps, secure coding, SDLC standards, and collaboration with Product, Data, Security, and executives to align engineering with business goals.

Qualifications

• 12–18+ years of software engineering, application development, technology, or platform engineering experience.
• 5+ years in engineering leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute engineering strategy, roadmap, architecture, and delivery model.
• Lead software engineering, application development, platform engineering, and technical delivery teams.
• Establish engineering standards, development methodologies, coding practices, and technical governance.
• Oversee architecture decisions, technical debt management, and platform modernization.
• Drive cloud-native development, microservices, APIs, DevOps, CI/CD, and automation.
• Establish SDLC and engineering quality standards.
• Ensure applications are scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available.
• Collaborate with Product, Business, Operations, Data, Security, and executive leadership.

Skills

Leadership experience

Strategic thinking

Executive collaboration

Cloud-native architecture

Microservices

APIs

DevOps

CI/CD

Agile engineering

Platform engineering

Enterprise application development

Security awareness

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering/IT

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Job description

The Head of Engineering at thehivecareers.co will lead the software engineering and technology development functions, shaping strategy, architecture, and delivery across insurance and investment platforms, APIs, and digital channels.

You will oversee cloud-native, microservices, DevOps, secure coding, SDLC standards, and collaboration with Product, Data, Security, and executives to align engineering with business goals.