Assistant Vice President, Technology & Data Engineering

Are you looking for more than just a job? Do you want to have a voice and feel a sense of belonging? At ICW Group, we hire innovative people who consistently adapt, grow and deliver. We believe in hard work, a fun work environment, and embracing creativity that only comes about when talented people collaborate to develop solutions. Our mission is to create the best insurance experience possible.

Headquartered in San Diego with regional offices located throughout the United States, ICW Group has been named for seven consecutive years as a Top 50 performing P&C company offering the stability of a large, profitable and growing company combined with a small-company entrepreneurial spirit. Our purpose-driven ethos provides team members with opportunities to contribute, develop, and belong.

The Assistant Vice President of Technology and Data Engineering is a critical role in ICW Group’s digital evolution. This role will provide strategic and execution-level leadership of the cloud and on-premises infrastructure teams, the data engineering team, and the enterprise platform and integration engineering team, and will collaborate with stakeholders to develop long-term strategic roadmaps staying up to date on innovations in technology. This role will support two important areas of focus for the Information Technology team which are migration to the public cloud and building strong data engineering capabilities.

What You Will Do

Establishes clear technical vision and strategy that support company operations and business objectives.

• Establishes and maintains a technology roadmap in support of department and enterprise goals that address technical debt and platform.
• Provides guidance and standards for the planning and prioritization of resource conflicts, customer demands, and customer support issues to ensure the successful delivery of the committed product roadmap.
• Masters and ensures teams employ data engineering and development methodologies and software development excellence methods including, Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and various other practices, methods, and tools as required.
• Develops and conducts engineering operational planning process, including business requirements, project planning, and organizing and negotiating the allocation of resources.
• Clearly defines and implements development methodologies and best practices for various projects.
• Constructs and adapts appropriate processes for usage within specific projects balancing quality, risk, speed, budget, delivery dates, personnel development, architectural complexity, supportability, and scope.
• Analyzes current state of the company’s technologies, standards, and practices to determine areas for continuous improvement in implementations and operations.

Leads infrastructure, and engineering teams to efficiently deliver solutions of the highest quality.

• Manages growth, training, structure of the teams, identifying gaps in the organization and building the team as necessary to meet project requirements and deadlines.
• Ensures projects are executed according to functional and technical requirements, timelines, and quality standards.
• Serves as the expert with the ability to guide and inspire the best performance, innovation, and utilization of optimal engineering practices.
• Assists with technical reviews and offers guidance, supports, and expands the groundwork for engineering and DevOps practices.
• Works with the engineering leaders to establish and maintain standards, design patterns, and frameworks for future projects.

Leads the IT Engineering Teams in delivering high quality and timely products and services to the organization.

• Manages assigned IT budget, technology and other resources, workload, and customer requests for IT services. Ensures adherence to all Company policies and procedures and Compliance responsibilities.
• Ensures that training and development is provided on a consistent basis to maintain and enhance skill levels in all IT disciplines; recognizes high potentials and provides additional training, resources and stretch assignments to motivate individual growth.
• Oversees the performance management and development process for the assigned IT team members and performs performance management duties, development planning and coaching for direct reports.
• Ensures data quality, adherence to IT security guidelines, profitability and other risk-related metrics for self and members of the team.
• Establishes and maintains the overall work cadence and, in partnership with IT Leadership, ensures performance and outcomes strive for excellence in delivery and customer experience. Ensures that the entire assigned IT team is engaged and that leadership practices for the department encourage development, recognition, and retention.
• Provides direction to the IT engineering team. Communicates Mission, Values, and other organization operating principles to direct and indirect reports.
• Establishes and holds team accountable to and adheres to hiring criteria, on-boarding and training requirements for incoming staff.
• Acts as a resource for assigned IT team members to answer questions and solve complex problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• These responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; conducting performance and salary reviews; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems; coaching, mentoring, and developing team members to further their skills and knowledge; creating and monitoring development plans; setting performance expectations/goals; forecasting staffing needs and planning for peak times and absences; enforcing department policies and procedures.
• Directly supervises employees within the IT team and carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with company policies and applicable laws.

What You Bring To The Role

• Cloud Practitioner or more advanced AWS certification preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of related experience in data, system or software engineering or development required.
• Data or architecture-related certification desired
• Minimum 10 years of related experience managing and/or directing an IT team.
• Bachelor's degree from four-year College or university required with a major or emphasis in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

Knowledge And Skills

• Technical experience in specific technology domains, DEVOPS, cloud computing, cloud platform and shared services, Cloud OPS, infrastructure, security, networking, data, and analytics.
• Experience managing public cloud computing technologies and engineering best practices.
• Experience with modern data architectures preferred, including Data Lake and Data Mesh.
• Proven experience developing & implementing cloud migration and adoption strategies, roadmaps, including developing and managing budgets.
• Working knowledge of multiple data management domains such as data modeling, integration, warehousing, data quality, security, and governance.
• Broad technical knowledge, project management experience, strong analytic skills, a strategic vision to transform and drive innovative solution.
• Knowledge and experience leading AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, EC2, Glue, EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, DocumentDB, DynamoDB.
• Deep understanding of core concepts for Public/Private/Hybrid clouds (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, risk compliance, security, identity and access management).
• Experience with database design, Microsoft SQL Server Studio.
• Strong knowledge of CAPEX and OPEX models, including business case development for cloud migration and cloud licensing practices.

Compensation

The salary range listed for this position, 160,094.56 to 286,572.60, is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at ICW Group, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education. In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer. We typically do not hire towards the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package outlined below.

WHY JOIN ICW GROUP?

• We offer a competitive benefits package, with generous medical, dental, and vision plans as well as 401K retirement plans and company match
• Want to continue learning? We’ll support you 100%
• Bonus potential for all positions
• 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Challenging work and the ability to make a difference
• Paid Time Off with an accrual rate of 5.23 hours per pay period (equal to 17 days per year)
• You will have a voice and feel a sense of belonging

ICW Group is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. ICW Group will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex/gender, age, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.