Director, Software Engineering

Description

We deliver our customers peace of mind every day by helping them protect what they value most. Our passion for placing the customer at the center of everything we do is driving a transformational shift at Liberty Mutual. Operating as a tech startup within a Fortune 100 company, we are leading a digital disruption that will redefine how people experience insurance.

 

At Liberty, you'll thrive in a hybrid setting that fosters in-person collaboration, innovation and growth. This approach optimizes both remote and in-person interactions, enabling you to connect and ideate with your team and deepen valuable relationships across the company, while still enjoying the flexibility of remote work for focused tasks and projects. 

 

 

This role has a hybrid work schedule (2 days onsite) and we are considering candidates based in Portsmouth, NH and Boston, MA.

 

 

Job introduction:

 

Global Finance Technology (GFT) is looking for a passionate, driven, technical engineering leader to work as the Director, Engineering to support our Strategic Incremental Modernization of Premium & Loss flagship program. SIMPL is GFT’s strategic program to simplify and streamline premium & loss financial and regulatory capabilities aligned with finance business priorities, supporting Corporate, GRS and USRM. This team is a critical contributor to the development, delivery, and support of the long-term Finance ecosystem product vision.

 

This Director will be responsible for managing SIMPL Finance & Regulatory portfolio of 35+ LM professionals, external delivery contracts of 50+ people, and managing a budget of ~$15-20M+ / annually with a sharp focus on optimizing delivery and Making IT Spend Count.

 

Primary Delivery Expectations:

• Lead the delivery and ongoing support of the SIMPL program to enable finance and regulatory capabilities across key portfolios, including USRM Frontier, GRS’ Evergreen, USRM Small Commercial initiatives, and Enterprise Reinsurance.
• Drive the strategic replacement of legacy mainframe applications with SIMPL as the core platform foundation, ensuring robust, scalable data ingestion and curation processes for premium and loss data.
• Oversee multiple cross-functional teams and simultaneous delivery tracks as the SIMPL program scales, ensuring alignment, collaboration, timely execution, and proactive identification, mitigation, and resolution of risks and issues to drive successful program outcomes.
• Optimize the staffing model and managing resource capacity and costs to support program growth and operational efficiency.
• Contribute to the strategic architecture vision for long-term data ingestion into Finance, starting with domestic data and partnering with architects from GFT, GRS, USRM to gain alignment on design & delivery.

 About the job:

• Develops and implements business and/or technology vision, critical success factors, and operating plans; develops and communicates department/enterprise vision, strategies, and high-level migration plans.
• Anticipates and manages technology evolution and relates it to business solutions. Sets direction based on alignment to business and overall technology standards.
• Ensures system, technical, and product architectures are aligned with business objectives and include active management of technical debt and system health to maintain architecture integrity and enable long-term scalability.
• Advocates and models agile leadership techniques, coaching managers and teams to embrace continuous improvement and adaptive delivery practices.
• Hires and manages managers and may hire and manage individual contributors, coaches and counsels team members, especially managers, regarding management approaches.
• Determines and manages staffing strategy and plan (# of FTEs, skills needed, depth of experience, internal and external staffing mix) consistent with departmental needs; ensures execution of decisions related to hiring, firing, and promotions.
• Defines individual performance objectives and development plans and ensures alignment with project and department objectives; appraises and evaluates department and individual performance, making compensation recommendations and overseeing the appraisal process.
• Oversee vendor relationships beyond delivery, including contract management, resource transitions, and ensuring external teams are fully integrated into the program culture and processes.
• Establishes the financial plan for the department and manages to plan; ensures project financial plans are met by managers; jointly establishes financial targets with business partners.
• Oversee the development, implementation, and execution of multiple projec