Sr. Manager – Technical Lead

Jencap•New York, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Why Jencap? We are one of the largest wholesale insurance intermediaries in the United States with expertise in wholesale brokerage, binding authority, and program management. The common thread woven throughout our success story is our collaborative and driven team of people. Our teams are empowered and work together to find solutions. We have a passion culture – with teamwork, collaboration and a focus on growing individuals and giving them the tools & development opportunities to have a successful career. This role will lead Jencap’s Technical Leads who are the Design Authority and Application Technology leads for insurance related IT projects. The individual shall be responsible for ensuring the team follows overall technical and application architecture for all applications within Jencap, work assignments, and expected to set high to mid-level technical direction, provide technical solutions working with technology, business and Jencap partners. This Role will work a hybrid schedule in our NY Office.

Requirements

Architecture and Technical (Key)
Leadership – experienced in leading teams in implementation complex applications
Team management – ability to manage internal and external resources
Business Analysis – synthesizing information gained from Jencap business and technical colleagues on strategy, objectives, priorities and operating models
Systems Planning – experience in information system planning / IS strategy / application selection work e.g. defining application design for complex, multi-site, multi product organizations
Technical Design and Implementation – hands-on expertise in designing, leading complex enterprise technical platforms; including cloud, vendor & third-party solutions, integrations, application security, messaging, XML & JSON, REST & SOAP
Project leadership and technical design authority for all projects
The candidate should possess very good architecture and design skills, modeling experience and ability to communicate with highly skilled application teams
Bachelor's Degree in related field
10+ years industry experience
The candidate should possess very good Java, cloud & design skills and ability to communicate with highly skilled application teams.
The role requires significant multi-tasking, a broad business perspective and conceptual thinking to solve ambiguous problems.
Candidates also need to apply substantial depth of knowledge/experience to drive through change.

Nice To Haves

Insurance (Advantageous)
Functional Understanding – understanding of all or a significant proportion of the following subject areas:
Insurance related experience including working on Policy, Placement systems advantageous.
Demonstrate an understanding of enterprise reference data – like customer, account, security etc
Demonstrable experience in Straight-Through Processing (STP) – ideally in the Insurance sector.
Large Systems Implementation – project implementation experience, acting as an architect or technical lead on insurance or financial systems
General Information Architecture is a plus
Business Analysis - synthesizing core information needs from business processes and requirements
Data Modeling – experience with logical data modeling and detailed modeling of inter-application data flows to element level
XML & JSON - exposure to using XML and JSON messaging standards such as ACORD
Reference Data – experience with the use of centralized reference data sources
This is a high impact role: Candidates should have a mix of end-user and consulting experience, ideally in Insurance.

Responsibilities

Project leadership and technical design authority for all projects
Work with external vendors, evaluate products, conduct POCs as required by the project
Assist in defining, implementing and overseeing technical standards, policies and tools
Conduct reviews to ensure that Jencap standards are being followed, and that work is of an acceptable quality.
Assist in the estimation of effort and cost of IT projects.
Reviews, walkthroughs and workshops at all key stages of the project lifecycle
Support the creation and continuous evaluation/improvement of technical development standards.