Vice President, Corporate Applications Product - Warren, United States - Everest Re Group, Ltd.

Description

Title:
Vice President, Corporate Applications Product Delivery Business of IT


Company:
Everest Global Services, Inc.


Job Category:
Technology


Job Description:


About Everest:

Everest is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider, operating for nearly 50 years through subsidiaries in the Europe, Bermuda, Canada, Singapore, US, and other territories.

Our strengths include extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet, and an innovative culture.

Throughout our history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focuses on creating long-term value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management.

But the most critical asset in this organization is our people.

Everest has been a global leader in reinsurance with a broad footprint, deep client relationships, underwriting excellence, responsive service and customized solutions.

Our insurance arm draws upon impressive global resources and financial strength to tailor each policy to meet the individual needs of our customers.

Our financial strength is evident in Financial Agency Ratings of: A+ A. M. Best, A+ S&P Global and A1 Moody's Investor Service.

We are a market leader for our broad diversified income streams, strong underlying underwriting performance with reduced volatility and strong cash flow.

We take pride in being known in the industry as nimble, entrepreneurial and responsive


About the role:

Our IT Corporate Applications department is looking for an VP I, IT Business of IT, Delivery Lead to join their team.

You will be responsible for managing and motivating a multi-discipline Business of IT Agile Team. Products manage include ServiceNow, SailPoint, Atlassian products like JIRA and Confluence in support of IT's mission in the organization.

You will manage cadence of delivery and ensure the effectiveness of the team to produce quality deliverables aligned to business values and objectives.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Lead a team of staff, consultants, and business team members on various projects for the Company.
• Drive Agile teams and methodologies in a virtual environment.
• Experience advising, coaching, and leading Agile (i.e., SAFe) Application implementation teams.
• Develop and collaborate with internal departments and external organizations to make effective and timely decisions in alignment with departmental direction.
• Work closely with business partners to implement projects including the development of plans, management of resources and deliverables in Application Portfolio
• Manage and drive projects to completion for the organization and forecast, plan, and deliver on budget.
• Contribute to functional and technical design documents.
• Work with internal IT teams to provide requirements and SME support.
• Enforce team to practice Agile Methodology and Adhere to Agile rules.
• Collaborate with VMO for all vendor communications.
• Be proactive and foresee challenges on Project execution. Propose and Discuss with Management on the solutions to overcome the challenges.
• Budgets and forecasts, Demand, Organizational Skills, and Provisioning of team resources effectively
• Critical Thinking for solutions and proactive recommendations to senior leadership
• Able to work and manage competing priorities, manage tasks, and deliver results.
• Ability to rationalize risks, opportunities, and draw plans of action and recommendations.
• Functional and Technical mix of expertise in the Business of IT portfolio (ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence, SailPoint etc.) to gather requirements, drive solutions and manage multiple projects.
• Experienced in development methodology (Agile / Lean, DevOps) and life cycle methodology.

Qualifications, Education & Experience:

• Master's or bachelor's degree in information technology
• Minimum 7+ years of experience in Implementation leadership or senior level manager position responsible for implementation and delivery.
• Minimum 7+ years Production Support experience (L3, hyper care, problem management)
• Minimum 7+ years AMS and vendor management of delivery and support as a service. SLA management and KPIs establishment and management of services against performance metrics in a global model.
• Track record of medium and largescale delivery using Agile methodologies such as DevSecOps and SAFe
• Experience managing business engagements, starting with building strong relationships with the various business leads and balancing a wide variety of competing and sometimes conflicting priorities.
• Proven ability to promote ideas and proposals persuasively, shape stakeholders' opinions, project a positive image, work through conflicts, and negotiate win/win solutions.
• Expert problem solving, risk management and presenting solutions toward successful resolution.
• Effective stakeholder relationship management with both external and internal stakeholders.
• Business operations and/or strategic planning experience
• Minimum of 10 ye