Overview
Data Engineering AVP role at the AIG Data Office.
The role is responsible for major data delivery project development, functional enhancement, and serving as a subject matter expert for technology selection.
You will work collaboratively with business, product owners and vendor partners to ensure successful delivery of data programs.
This is a strategic role supporting mission critical financial functions.
The role includes leading technical resources and partnering with the AIG Cloud team and architecture teams to deliver cloud solutions that are secure, resilient, scalable and efficient.
The person is responsible for delivering in a highly outsourced model.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical delivery for large, mission critical initiatives, with initial focus on a multi-year financial transformation program for Commercial insurance.
- Lead highly outsourced technical delivery teams to deliver data pipelines across functional areas, like Finance / Actuarial systems, on time, with high quality and continuous innovation.
- Establish best practices, guidance and recommendations for data cloud solutions that are scalable, secure, resilient, efficient and managed with operational excellence.
- Serve as a Technical Subject Matter Expert for data programs; guide technology selection with focus on efficiency, cost and time to market.
- Recommend opportunities to modernize the data application portfolio to reduce operational cost and eliminate technical debt.
- Foster relationships with business and IT stakeholders for the program.
- Maintain industry / AIG security standards and SDLC compliance for delivery, including establishing and developing data controls for internal and external requirements.
- Ensure high quality delivery across multi-vendor teams spread across different geographies.
Key Qualifications
- Significant experience in application development, large data management solutions and information handling at the enterprise level, with a deep understanding of SDLC.
- In-depth knowledge of architectural principles and services used to develop technical cloud strategy and review workload architectures; able to address high-risk issues.
- Ability to manage large vendor teams across multiple geographies.
- Experience working in large, complex, multinational financial data environments.
- Insurance (ideally property and casualty) industry expertise in the data domain.
- Business acumen and understanding of insurance metrics and financials.
- Ability to work under challenging delivery situations with tight deadlines and budget constraints.
- Experience in providing technical expertise and project leadership by conducting industry and market research and making recommendations on current and new domain knowledge and related technologies.
- Understanding of the long-term and short-term perspectives of situations.
- Effective communication and facilitation with business and technology stakeholders to understand use cases and business needs.
- Ability to influence change and drive results; self-motivated to identify issues and resolve them quickly.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and ability to use Rally to track user stories.
Ideal Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, software engineering, computer engineering, or related field and 10+ years’ experience in software development, data modeling or data engineering in progressive leadership roles.
- Strong background in cloud infrastructure and AWS services.
- Knowledge of Snowflake, Oracle, DB2, SPARK, JAVA, Microsoft technologies.
- Familiarity transforming and analyzing structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
- Experience with Git / GitHub.
- Prior experience adopting AI accelerators for application development is a plus.
- Experience in Property and Casualty insurance with emphasis in commercial lines; experience in Finance discipline is a plus.
- Experience in developing and operationalizing complex data engineering solutions.
- Leverages expert problem-solving skills and techniques.
Location & Mobility
- Position will be based in the US.
- 15% travel required.
At AIG, we value in-person collaboration as a vital part of our culture.
We ask team members to be primarily in the office to foster effective collaboration and a connected environment for our team and clients.
Benefits
Enjoy Benefits That Take Care Of What Matters.
AIG offers a Total Rewards Program, a comprehensive benefits package focused on health, wellbeing and financial security, as well as professional development.
About AIG: American International Group, Inc.
is a global leader in commercial and personal insurance solutions with a broad, international presence.
Equal Opportunity: AIG is an equal opportunity employer.
We provide reasonable accommodations to job applicants and employees with disabilities.
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