Executive Director, Information Management

You desire impactful work.
 

You’re RGA ready

RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 500 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

A Brief Overview

Directs a portfolio of complex and innovative big data, business intelligence, and data warehouse services and solutions, which span departments and geographies, and in support of business objectives. Leads and manages a team of IT directors and managers; may lead and manage architects, engineers, and developers. Leverages a comprehensive understanding of big data, business intelligence, and data warehousing, knowledge of IT services and solutions, and an in-depth understanding of RGA's business to execute responsibilities.



What you will do

• Manages multiple complex projects and/or technology initiatives; manages related teams, sets organizational priorities, and allocates resources
• Performs management responsibilities, including hiring, training, evaluating, coaching, and disciplining direct reports; mentors associates within the department and continually develop project team competencies
• Seeks-out, develops, and nurtures effective stakeholder relationships; takes ownership for the relationships, ensuring organizational objectives are met
• Leverages comprehensive understanding of Information Management concepts, theories and principles, and effective knowledge of other IT disciplines; evaluates and implements new services and solutions appropriately
• Impacts the level of service and the team’s ability to meet quality, delivery, and timeliness objectives; ensures teams performance
• In consultation with stakeholders, develops and establishes strategic and long-range goals for services and solutions; Is guided by policies, resource requirements, budgets, and the business plan
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent education/ experience required
• Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS) and/or LOMA certification preferred
• 10+ Years experience in DW, BI, and/ or Big Data (or equivalent) required
• 2+ Years management and technical leadership and supervisory experience in IT required
• 2+ Years application portfolio management experience required
• 10+ Years IT-related experience, including Experience with data movement tools (Ex., IBM’s Data Stage, Informatica, Talend); Experience with Business Intelligence tools (Ex.,Tableau, SAP, MS SSAS, SSRS, MS PowerBI); Experience with relational and NoSQL database technologies (Ex., Oracle, SQL server, Vertica, MongoDB, Cassandra, Dynamo DB, Amazon Aurora); Experience with big data architectures, data lakes, and big data ecosystem of tools (Ex., Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Storm, Cloudera, Hbase, HDFS), Experience with software development automated required
• Wide range of experience with multiple development tools and solution models required
• Highly advanced project management skills; demonstrates ability to evaluate project objectives and scope feasibility, gain understanding, schedule resources, and manage budget to plan required
• In-depth understanding of big data, data warehousing, and/ or business intelligence services and solutions required
• Comprehensive knowledge of software development required
• Advanced ability to lead and resolve complex problems, working across broad groups and geographies required
• Advanced interpersonal skills, including the ability to guide, influence, and persuade others, as well as influence senior leaders required
• Advanced communication skills, including ability to communicate difficult concepts and negotiate with others to adopt a different point of view required
• Insurance and/or reinsurance industry knowledge required
• Microsoft Business Intelligence Technology required
• AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Impala, Tableau, Micro Services, Microsoft HPC, Oracle, PL/SQL, Java TDD, Specflow, Mocha required
• Python, Scala, R etc required
• Microsoft Certification Preferred
• Oracle Certification Preferred
• Other BI Certifications Preferred

What you can expect from RGA:

• Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.

• Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.

• Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, endless career potential.

Compensation Range:

Base pay varies depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and market location. In addition, RGA provides an annual bonus plan that includes all roles and some positions are eligible for participation in our long-term equity incentive plan. RGA also maintains a full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits.

RGA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, gender identity or expression, sex, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.