IT Development Manager

For a leading multinational insurance group.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end software delivery, from design and development through testing, deployment, and post-go-live support.
• Ensure adherence to SDLC standards and drive continuous improvement in software quality, development processes, and productivity.
• Manage development backlogs, estimations, KPIs, and delivery performance using Jira and other relevant tools.
• Ensure architectural and design alignment across applications in collaboration with IT Architecture, Delivery, and Solution Design teams.
• Drive cloud-first development, modern API design, CI/CD adoption, and DevOps practices across critical applications.
• Manage technical debt and ensure alignment with the overall IT strategy and technology roadmap.
• Embed security-by-design and compliance-by-design across all software development activities.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory and security requirements, including DORA, GDPR, the EU AI Act, and Solvency II IT requirements.
• Support disaster recovery, business continuity, audit readiness, and operational resilience across the application landscape.
• Plan and prioritize development workloads across BAU and strategic projects, ensuring effective allocation of internal and external resources.
• Provide delivery estimates, timelines, capacity planning, budget input, and ongoing monitoring of development activities.
• Report delivery progress, risks, KPIs, and key issues to senior management and relevant governance committees.
• Ensure comprehensive technical documentation, API catalogues, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer processes are maintained.
• Build and develop high-performing technical teams through clear objectives, performance management, mentoring, succession planning, and targeted training.
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing while ensuring business continuity and reducing key-person dependencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Informatics or a related quantitative field. Master's degree (MSc/MBA) is a strong plus.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in software engineering, with at least 4 years managing development teams (multiple squads / team leaders).
• Proven track record of leading delivery of large, mission-critical applications, ideally in insurance, banking or financial services.
• Experience managing both legacy modernization (e.g., Cobol, mainframe-style core systems, large Oracle databases) and modern stacks (.NET, web/mobile, APIs, cloud).