Manager - Development
- Employer
- HFG
- Location
- City Of London
- Salary
- £70000 to £82000 per annum
- Closing date
- 20 Mar 2019
- Reference
- SZ7859L
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- Sector
- General insurance, IT, Risk management, Systems
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Experience/Function
- Other
Job Details
An international leading general insurance and reinsurance group are looking for a Development Manager to join their Risk Aggregation department.
This dynamic role will be supporting the development of the team`s tools/systems and processes working closely with the business experts to drive improvements across the business.
Principal Responsibilities:
- Lead rapid technical development and design of new tools and proof of concepts.
- Lead the introduction of robust development practices into the Risk Department.
- Manage the transition of application design knowledge to the IT team for production development/documentation and on-going support of developed tools.
- Support the management and development of the IT infrastructure relevant to the risk aggregation systems and tools.
- Liaise with IT and software vendors where appropriate.
- Liaise with HR and direct line manager in recruitment and selection of the team, and employee performance reviews.
- To manage analysts in both internally and for outsourced functions (where relevant).
Key Requirements:
- Sound commercial experience in either C#/ ASP.Net / MVC or Python/associated web framework (e.g. Django or Flask)
- Commercial experience with CSS and JavaScript programming
- Experience in Microsoft SQL Server and T-SQL
- Experience and knowledge of Webservices, Web API (SOAP / REST) and microservices
- Understanding and interest in a wide range of technologies e.g. Azure (Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Event Hub), Kafka, Spark, R, GIS (ESRI ArcGIS) etc.
- Computer Science or other related, quantitative subject degree
- Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills
Beneficial:
- Experience in (re)insurance
- Exposure to catastrophe modelling (e.g. RMS / AIR / TigerEye / AnalyzeRe) and/or capital modelling tools (e.g. Remetrica / Igloo / Tyche)
Company
HFG is an award winning international recruitment consulting firm that provides specialist professionals to leading General Insurance, Life, Reinsurance, Pensions and Management Consultancy firms.
Since our formation in 2002 we have sought to provide a market leading recruitment service which challenges the gap between large agencies broad capabilities, and executive search companies’ levels of service.
Regarded by our clients and candidates as industry experts, we deliver solutions to the global insurance marketplace where we specialise in actuarial recruitment.
Led by a number of ex-industry professionals, our consultants have shown a long-term commitment to their defined markets.
The provision of considered advice based on deep market knowledge is central to our business model.
You will regularly find HFG at industry events and conferences including GIRO, Life, Momentum, Health, Care & Protection and Joint Risk, Investment & Pensions.
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