Head of Application Development

Location:

City of London, London

Salary: £130000.00 - £150000.00 per annum

Type: Permanent
Head of IT - Insurance Head of Applications
Role Type : Permanent
Location : London
Hybrid Working : 2 days in London per Week
Head of IT

- with experience leading & developing application teams is required for a leading specialty insurer in the City of London. This is an essential role for an organisation undergoing a generational technology transformation.
The organisation is a leading specialist insurer based in the City of London, they have a highly prestigious reputation & a very established presence, undergoing a major transformation, updating, & migrating technology, developing low-code platforms, moving towards devops capabilities & a cloud program in Azure.
The Role:
You will join an established IT practice, reporting directly into the organisations CIO. You should already have experience working within an insurance organisation, ideally within specialty lines of insurance. This role will have you responsible for managing the applications teams & in house applications, as well as much of the support teams. You will have led IT teams previously with a good eye for robust code. The organisations applications are written in C#.Net & SQL however you will not be expected to be hands on in this regard.
Ideally you will have led an organisation into Devops adoption & cloud migrations from on prem, providing the organisation the experience they need to help them on this journey. You will have a respect for ITIL processes & should have led some ITIL implementations before.
This role is truly transformative, not only will you be given the opportunity to drive an insurance firm forward into modern, resilient, & robust coding practices, but you will also provide experience to an organisation with high ambitions in cloud & citizen code practices, taking ownership of all the application, software, & support teams.
Required Skills :
Experience at director level Head of Application Development or Head of IT in a previous organisation
Prior business knowledge or experience in an Insurance, Reinsurance, specialty or Lloyd's insurance organisation
Experience leading a business through a cloud program or Azure Devops
Respect for ITIL based Service Management principles
Excellent communication abilities to motivate & drive change & transformation.
Ideally an understanding of C#.Net based applications.
This is a unique opportunity to lead a highly reputable established insurance organisation, driving technology transformation & growing the scope of IT for the business.

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