Senior Chapter Lead (Gen AI Data Engineering)

Overview

FM Global is a leading property insurer of the world's largest businesses, providing more than one-third of FORTUNE 1000-size companies with engineering-based risk management and property insurance solutions. FM Global helps clients maintain continuity in their business operations by drawing upon state-of-the-art loss-prevention engineering and research; risk management skills and support services; tailored risk transfer capabilities; and superior financial strength. To do so, we rely on a dynamic, culturally diverse group of employees, working in more than 100 countries, in a variety of challenging roles.

Responsibilities

The Senior Chapter Lead of Development is responsible for the talent, tools and best practices required to deliver solutions through the technologies employed by their chapters. Based on FM Global product and technology vision, the Senior Chapter Lead develops the talent and application development technology roadmaps, ensuring the right skills and tools are available at the right time.

 

Working across chapters, the Senior Chapter Lead is responsive to changing product needs to ensure team optimization. They are constantly searching for opportunities to identify relevant technology trends, efficiencies, andinnovations that could improve capabilities or to enhance overall technology product delivery. The Senior Chapter lead acts as practice leader who engages with product owners as a technical subject matter expert and plans and facilitates cross-chapter alignment to match talent and capacity with organizationalpriorities. Working in partnership with the Senior Chapter Lead of Solution Architecture and other technology practice leaders within and outside of the division, the incumbent ensures alignment with and influences enterprise and architecture technology direction and practices.

 

The Senior Chapter Lead is a strong technical leader responsible for piloting new and emerging technical capabilities and putting legacy tools in containment within their respective Chapters. They manage, support and develop ChapterLeads and indirectly support Chapter members in a professional manner.

• Talent Sourcing: Assess temporary and/or permanent candidates foropportunities on product teams to augment team capacity and/or skills.Maintain and refine the interview process and associated material to alignwith current and future product and technology needs. Work with strategicworkforce lead to identify optimal sourcing options. Develop and monitorstaffing approach and maintain a budget for contingent labor.

 

• Talent Development: Work with chapter leads, product and solutionarchitecture to proactively identify future skill and capacity needs bymonitoring product backlogs and product and technology roadmaps.Institute and manage technical training aligned with these needs, workingwith workforce lead for cross-organizational needs. Implement cross-chapterknowledge-sharing and domain specific activities through guilds and forums.Assess the state of technical capabilities and team health within theorganization to assess gaps and plan for future development. Mentor anddevelop chapter leads. Ensure execution and consistency of performanceassessments, compensation, and promotions across chapters. Plan andmaintain a training budget.

 

• Application Development Tools and Best Practices: Drive the identification,evaluation and recommendation of tools, standards and best practices thatsupport the delivery of secure, performant and reliable applications and thatalign with technology and feature roadmaps. Document, train andevangelize the implementation of tools, standards and best practices acrossproduct teams. Plan and maintain a budget for the purchase andmaintenance of technical tools.

 

• Cross Chapter Problem Solving: Partner with Chapter Leads and SeniorProduct Owners to adjust team makeup and backlog assignment acrosschapters to ensure skills and capacity align with priorities as established bythe product organization.

 

• Enterprise Initiatives: Facilitate technology-focused cross-team or enterpriseinitiatives to improve efficiency, compliance and consistency and to drive theevolution of our software and practices.

 

• Software Procurement Agreements: Partner with Product in the definition,review and implementation of software procurement agreements forproducts or platforms of large size or scope.

Qualifications

 

• Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, MIS, Software Engineering or equivalent
• 10 Experience in evaluating technologies and technology venders, running effective technology proof of concepts, and managing technology vendor relationships Experience defining process for and conducting interviewing, hiring and personnel assessment.
• Experience in coaching, mentoring, and developing highly motivated technical leader