Friday, December 25, 2009

[itroundtable] LEAD: Dir Apps Dev - NYC - to 170k

 

Candidates must have either (1) strong recent Life Insurance systems experience or (2) recent financial services company experience in a Distributed architecture-Websphere, C, Java environment. They must also have recent responsibility for a large staff size and a substantial budget as this position manages 60-80 people and a $6-8MM budget

 

Director Applications Development

New York City
 

Overview:

This individual has responsibility for all aspects of application development and management for a set of applications within the Individual Life group.  The role requires collaboration with senior business managers regarding technology and process solutions to ensure that they support the strategic direction of the business. This position has responsibility for highly complex projects that span the Individual Life business area.

 

The individual leads a team of approximately 60-80 I/T professionals, both employee and consultant located onshore and offshore.  Budgetary responsibility is between $6-8MM.  The individual must lead these resources to ensure delivery of key projects as well as assure the availability and stability of a number of business critical applications.

 

Responsibilities:

 

This individual must develop a deep understanding of both the systems under their management and the business processes they support.  Key challenges include working with partners in all levels within the business to prioritize initiatives, assess feasibility, recommend and implement the optimal technical solution and ensuring resources are most efficiently aligned against those initiatives.  These initiatives have a direct impact on the Individual Life Profit Center business results.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Setting strategic technology direction
  • Budget management
  • Ensuring the timely and high quality delivery of projects and services
  • Technical stability and application availability
  • Quality Assurance
  • Contract management
  • Organizational development

 

Knowledge:

  • Application development; awareness/knowledge of relevant technologies
  • Disciplined project management methodology and process excellence
  • Knowledge of the life insurance industry highly preferred, but not required.

 

Experience:

  • 10+ years of IT managerial experience required
  • Experience in managing management level professionals
  • Distributed architecture, WebSphere, Java and C experience required
  • Demonstrated leadership of large technology groups (50+)
  • Experience managing on-shore/off-shore application development projects
  • Prior management of Quality Assurance team is desirable 
  • Six Sigma training is desirable

Jack M Schwartz

Managing Director

ITech Recruiting LLC

516-826-4640 office

516-524-6010 cell

jackschwartz@itechrecruiting.com

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Feb 9th Combined Dinner Mtg AWC - Rod Colon - Empowering Today's Professionals (ETP) Network

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