Exide Life Insurance - General Manager - IT Applications Delivery

The primary responsibilities would include:

1. Delivery of critical business applications and changes

3. Driving new initiatives on emerging Technologies - Mobility, Social, Cloud

New Applications currently account for approximately 25 to 30% of the IT budget.

The role also involves promoting better software development lifecycle and application management practices. It involves close cooperation with Business Unit heads. The key themes of the role are facilitation, sharing, reuse and standardization of best practices to reduce costs and increase the business value of IT. The role will also entail providing technology assurance on the application space on critical Business initiatives.

Project Related

- Analysis and Solution Definition. Proactively identify solutions for Business problems

- Quickly understands the business issues and data challenges of the organization and industry

- Identifies organization's strengths and weaknesses and suggests areas of improvement

- Reviews and edits requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution

- Develops functional specifications and system design specifications

- Business Case preparation

Technical Recommendation and Testing

- Lead testing efforts.

- Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner

- Work with business stakeholders to identify required changes

- Communicate needed changes to development team

- Delivers informative, well-organized presentations

Understand and tactfully manage communication of difficult/sensitive information

Key Accountabilities (A collection of duties and/or responsibilities assigned)

- Establish strategy for the applications portfolio and manage execution of applications

- Estimation, design and delivery of solutions to the business

- Establish processes, controls, metrics and measures for delivery

- Ownership for detailed analysis, implementation and production support for COTS (Commercial Off the shelf) applications

- Adherence to risk and compliance requirements as mandated by the framework followed by the organization

- To manage the budgets and schedules for the various business change deliveries

- Provide technical expertise for choice of vendor solutions and COTS packages

- Manage relationship with various stakeholders and achieve a high CSAT rating

Skills, Knowledge & Qualifications (Framework required by the position)

- Already working in senior IT delivery role with specific exposure to applications, project management and products, preferably in the insurance/BFSI industry

- 8 to 15 years in the IT industry

- Good communicator capable of adapting his / her message based on the target audience

- Strong process and project management skills as the role will involve assisting Business Units to roll out programs of work

- Commercial acumen as the role will involve budget preparation and definition of IT costs

- Exposure to CRM, Workflow, BPM and other platforms that power enterprises.

- Strong technical skills specifically on Java/J2EE and BPM specifically Tibco and Filenet. Strong business analysis skills and understanding of information risk practices.