Executive Director, Information Management

You desire impactful work.
 

You’re RGA ready

RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 500 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

A Brief Overview

Directs a portfolio of complex and innovative big data, business intelligence, and data warehouse services and solutions, which span departments and geographies, and in support of business objectives. Leads and manages a team of IT directors and managers; may lead and manage architects, engineers, and developers. Leverages a comprehensive understanding of big data, business intelligence, and data warehousing, knowledge of IT services and solutions, and an in-depth understanding of RGA's business to execute responsibilities.



What you will do

• Manages multiple complex projects and/or technology initiatives; manages related teams, sets organizational priorities, and allocates resources
• Performs management responsibilities, including hiring, training, evaluating, coaching, and disciplining direct reports; mentors associates within the department and continually develop project team competencies
• Seeks-out, develops, and nurtures effective stakeholder relationships; takes ownership for the relationships, ensuring organizational objectives are met
• Leverages comprehensive understanding of Information Management concepts, theories and principles, and effective knowledge of other IT disciplines; evaluates and implements new services and solutions appropriately
• Impacts the level of service and the team’s ability to meet quality, delivery, and timeliness objectives; ensures teams performance
• In consultation with stakeholders, develops and establishes strategic and long-range goals for services and solutions; Is guided by policies, resource requirements, budgets, and the business plan
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent education/ experience required
• Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS) and/or LOMA certification preferred
• 10+ Years experience in DW, BI, and/ or Big Data (or equivalent) required
• 2+ Years management and technical leadership and supervisory experience in IT required
• 2+ Years application portfolio management experience required
• 10+ Years IT-related experience, including Experience with data movement tools (Ex., IBM’s Data Stage, Informatica, Talend); Experience with Business Intelligence tools (Ex.,Tableau, SAP, MS SSAS, SSRS, MS PowerBI); Experience with relational and NoSQL database technologies (Ex., Oracle, SQL server, Vertica, MongoDB, Cassandra, Dynamo DB, Amazon Aurora); Experience with big data architectures, data lakes, and big data ecosystem of tools (Ex., Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Storm, Cloudera, Hbase, HDFS), Experience with software development automated required
• Wide range of experience with multiple development tools and solution models required
• Highly advanced project management skills; demonstrates ability to evaluate project objectives and scope feasibility, gain understanding, schedule resources, and manage budget to plan required
• In-depth understanding of big data, data warehousing, and/ or business intelligence services and solutions required
• Comprehensive knowledge of software development required
• Advanced ability to lead and resolve complex problems, working across broad groups and geographies required
• Advanced interpersonal skills, including the ability to guide, influence, and persuade others, as well as influence senior leaders required
• Advanced communication skills, including ability to communicate difficult concepts and negotiate with others to adopt a different point of view required
• Insurance and/or reinsurance industry knowledge required
• Microsoft Business Intelligence Technology required
• AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Impala, Tableau, Micro Services, Microsoft HPC, Oracle, PL/SQL, Java TDD, Specflow, Mocha required
• Python, Scala, R etc required
• Microsoft Certification Preferred
• Oracle Certification Preferred
• Other BI Certifications Preferred

What you can expect from RGA:

• Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.

• Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.

• Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, end