Associate Underwriting Manager overseeing underwriting operations and team dynamics at Zurich. Engaging with agents and brokers to drive profitability and market presence in the primary casualty arena.
About the role
- Distinguished Engineer driving insurance business transformation with technical leadership and innovation. Collaborating with teams to enhance underwriting processes and software development strategies.
Responsibilities
- Focus on multiple areas in Underwriting and provide technical leadership to the org.
- Collaborate with product managers, business operations , and other engineering teams to solve complex problems.
- Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains , evolve tech stack to utilize modern backend and frontend frameworks, storage , event and messaging solutions.
- Provide technical leadership in adopting AI in various Underwriting task handling , development and testing activities.
- Hands-on designing, developing, testing and launching major projects while leading other engineers to contribute.
- Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions.
- Mentor and help coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community.
- Influence and educate leadership at all levels.
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.
- Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans.
- Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning.
Requirements
- Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, Kotlin, Golang or C# including object-oriented design .
- Experience designing new and improving existing systems with architecture excellence , design patterns, reliability, and scalability in mind.
- Experience building micro-services oriented architecture with gRPC interfaces , and event driven systems with Kafka.
- Proficient in programming languages like Java, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, containers such as Kubernetes, and a variety of cloud tools and services.
- Experience with continuous building, delivery and infrastructure as code.
- Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture , and operational portals on major cloud providers such as AWS , Azure and GCP .
- Experience in leveraging scripting languages for task automation.
- Experience with application monitoring tools and performance tuning.
- Experience in security protocols and products: understanding of directory service , SAML , OAuth.
- In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches.
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
- Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap.
- Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
- Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation;
- 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match;
- Performance and recognition-based incentives;
- Tuition assistance.
- Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
- Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
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