Head of Architecture and Data

Tokio Marine HCC - Public Risk Group, a member of the Tokio Marine group of companies, is a market leader in providing specialized insurance products for municipal entities. We cover counties, cities, townships, villages, police department, prisons, fire departments and more. We serve the growing insurance and risk management needs of medium and large governmental entities and provide property and casualty insurance coverages in multiple states.

Ideal candidate lives within reasonable commuting distance to Glastonbury, CT or Mount Kisco, NY and is comfortable with a Hybrid In-Office Work Schedule (4 days In-Office, 1 day WFH).

Head of Architecture & Data

As a Head of Architecture & Data for Public Risk Group you will be responsible for leading Solution Architecture, Data, Claims and Desktop Support for the Public Risk Group and act as the relationship manager and support the technology needs for Parametric Weather and EPIC.   

To accomplish this, you will deeply partner with business and engineering teams to analyze, document and develop solutions based on business needs and opportunities to deliver the intended outcomes in a timely manner.  Working across Agile teams you will drive the delivery of cloud-based capabilities that will transform our application landscape.  Your skills in AWS cloud capabilities, .NET, SQL, Python, MongoDB, Cloud DevOps, and PowerBI will enable you to excel in this role.  

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership, engineers, product managers and business customers to understand application and data needs.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand application requirements and translate them into effective technology solutions.

• Designing, developing, and deploying dynamically scalable, high-available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications to Cloud environments.

• Lead DevOps standards and practice implementing continuous integration and distribution pipelines to deploy applications.

• Act as a subject matter expert in Cloud and DevOps capabilities.

• Select and utilize appropriate services to use based on given requirements and use cases.

• Influence short- and long-term strategy with cross-functional teams to drive impact.

• Take ownership of the end-to-end data engineering component of the solution

• Promote a cloud-first, data-first culture throughout the organization.

Experience & Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science or a related field or the equivalent education and/or experience

• 10 years of relevant and progressive professional experience in software development and support.

Position Requirements:

• This is a leadership role that will “Lead and Do” on a daily basis

• Strong experience AWS Cloud environment and MongoDB

• Python, C# and .NET Core programming language and Frameworks

• Skills for developing, deploying & debugging cloud applications (familiar with AWS Well-Architected Framework, Domain Driven Design and 12-factor applications)

• Skills in API usage, command line interface and SDKs (AWS API Gateway, Amazon EKS)

• Strong experience with Document Databases (preferably MongoDB Atlas)

• Well versed in usage of containers (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)

• Ability to maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery process using tools such as Azure DevOps pipelines and AWS Code Pipeline

• Familiarity with open source package management 

• Familiarity with GIT branching strategy and software versioning strategy

• Hands-on experience in building, designing and maintaining cloud-based applications with AWS

• Strong experience with Build and Release, Systems Integration, Agile, Estimations/Planning

• Strong experience in software development process, test driven development

• Strong OO design skills/implementation of design patterns

• Ability to apply broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures

• Good written and oral communications skills with an emphasis on confidentiality, tact, and diplomacy

• Excellent organizational and analytical skills; demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously

• Advanced proficiency and experience using Microsoft Office Package (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word)

• Insurance or Financial Service industry experience required

Additional Working Conditions and Physical Demands

• Overtime hours may be required to fulfill job responsibilit