Cloud & DevOps Delivery Lead

Munich Re Group - Princeton, NJ

Full-time - Senior

Princeton, NJ

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About the position

The Cloud & DevOps Delivery Lead at Munich Re is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Cloud and DevOps delivery across North America. This role involves managing a team of over 30 experts, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring the successful execution of multiple high-complexity projects. The position requires collaboration with senior IT leaders and product owners to establish service level agreements (SLAs) and achieve security and configuration goals in alignment with global IT risk management.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of the GSI Cloud & DevOps practice reporting directly into the cloud leadership team.
• Be accountable for all aspects of Cloud and DevOps Delivery across North America.
• Develop and support all cloud operations processes.
• Enable FinOps Practice initiatives in DevOps.
• Leverage the existing team of Cloud and DevOps experts to deliver multiple high complexity projects in parallel.
• Provide technical and management leadership for a team of 30+ across Munich Re and partners.
• Support and develop all the cloud practice operations processes.
• Establish and achieve SLAs in collaboration with Senior IT Leaders and Product Owners.
• Work with Global IT Risk and Security Management to achieve GSI security and configuration goals.
• Drive and demonstrate continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practitioner with 15+ years of full stack technical architecture & cloud delivery.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, architecture best practices, and cloud-native application development, microservices, containers, and serverless computing.
• Self-starting and highly motivated.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Proven experience reporting directly into c suite.
• Experience in managing third parties & partners from a relationship and contractual standpoint.
• Exceptional experience in tailoring engagement style to stakeholder requirements.
• Highly experienced and proven track record in delivering programs that span multiple projects - including financial management.
• Proficient in Microsoft Azure services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• DevOps & Cloud Architecture delivery experience in either Duck Creek or Guidewire.
• Ability to influence decision making of peers and colleagues in architecture and security practices.
• Exceptional analytical capabilities to present complex situations in a conceptually clear and concise manner.
• Confident in managing and delivering across the end-to-end technical architecture stack - development, security & IAM, infrastructure (cloud and on premise), performance engineering & operations.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Azure DevOps, Identity Management, Role Based Access Control (RBAC), Compliance and Security at an enterprise level.
• Demonstrated proficiency in applying development architectures including - SCM, technical quality definition and enforcement, artefact management, build & dependency management.
• Azure certification will be considered a distinguishing factor.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Duck Creek or Guidewire is a differentiator.

Benefits

• Diversity and Inclusion initiatives
• Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities