Experienced Engineering Manager

Who are we?

A strategic and trusted insurance partner, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), provides a broad range of commercial property, casualty and specialty insurance coverages and outstanding service to customers and brokers around the world. Part of Berkshire Hathaway's insurance operations, we bring our solutions to market with our stellar brand name, top-rated balance sheet, and the expertise of our global team of professionals, who exude excellent capabilities and strong character.

We are a values-based organization where respect, integrity, excellence, collaboration, and passion define who we are and how we do business. We value diversity of backgrounds, experience, and perspectives and strive to foster an inclusive environment that enables all our team members to bring their best selves to work. We are one team committed to building a culture where every teammate has the opportunity to contribute and be recognized. Want to be part of the team building the finest property, casualty and specialty lines insurance company in the world?

Learn more about our unique culture and history.

Job Opportunity:

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Engineering Manager to join their Boston based Enterprise Business Solutions Team. While this role is ideally based in Boston, other BHSI office locations will be considered for the right candidate. We are seeking a motivated Engineering professional who has successfully led cross-functional, global, complex projects within the Commercial Property & Casualty insurance industry. This newly created role is accountable for end-to-end oversight of strategic digital transformation and enterprise application initiatives, including the technical design, development, and successful deployment of applications. The team member will also be accountable for driving the product vision and roadmap, elicit and curate requirements while managing the associated projects. The team member will be engaged in all facets of strategic projects from solution definition, ROI, process impact analysis, design, development, testing, and migration working closely with the offshore project teams and BHSI business stakeholders.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of complex projects that span one or multiple regions and P&C lines of business.

• Provide leadership to project teams to ensure that all projects align with the BHSI digital roadmap and long-term vision are delivered on time and within budget.

• Facilitate sessions with internal and external stakeholders to analyze business and user needs and to deliver necessary artifacts (use cases, user stories, UI designs, mockups, workflows etc.)

• Demonstrate a functional acumen to support how solutions will address company goals while maintaining alignment with P&C insurance industry best practices.

• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise offshore project and program teams.

• Ensure that projects and programs are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.

• Engineer, guide, and implement technical solutions and improvements while directly working with BHSI and offshore technical teams to validate that projects meet BHSI security, infrastructure, and architectural requirements.

• Actively participate in solution design and ensure alignment of technical architecture with the technology roadmap.

• Partner with other Enterprise Architects/product managers to develop a unified direction on how to leverage existing tools, data stores, and frameworks and establish reusable capabilities.

• Oversee development activity (e.g., conduct code reviews, process adherence) and provide guidance to team members, both internal and external.

• Present technical solution to our Enterprise Architecture Review Board

• Help create documentation to provide user support for programs and for production/operating procedures.

• Drive education of the broader team on core concepts around cloud computing, big data cloud platforms and architecture frameworks.

• Facilitate assessment of business requirements in relation to the overall goals while establishing target state solutions and designs.

• Drive quantifiable efficiencies through automated testing, and work with teams to transition to true dev/ops model.

• Proactively identify opportunities to optimize processes and tools

• Support additional technical projects as needed

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• 10+ years of overall technology experience with proven experience in building applications and delivering software solutions and services in line with agile methodologies.

• 10+ years of experience with full product/development lifecycle with deep understanding in .Net, Microservices, Power Platform, AI builder, SharePoint, Angular, SQL, CI/CD pipelines preferably in Azure platform

• 5+ years of experience leading, motivating, mentoring, and developing people and team skills.

• 5+ years of Property & Casualty Insurance industry is desirable.

• Working knowledge of Agile work management tools. Ex: Jira/Confluence, Azure Dev Ops etc.

• Strong experience in SDLC, data models, data flows

• Proven expertise in cloud-first and experience migrating legacy solutions to cloud solutions along with pros/cons of various approaches serverless, PaaS, IaaS, DBaaS etc.

• Research best practices within and outside the organization to establish benchmark data and use continuous process improvement disciplines to achieve results.

• Demonstrated ability to lead in a highly matrixed organization through a combination of influence, partnership, and authority while managing various project and program team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding team accountable for performance.

• Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands.

• Quick learner with ability to adapt to upcoming technology trends & apply them.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of executives, subject matter experts and vendor resources.

• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills, with keen attention to detail

• Proven ability to build and maintain relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus, and achieve objectives.

• Flexible with proven ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

BHSI Offers:

• A competitive package and exciting growth opportunities for career-oriented teammates
• A dynamic, action oriented, and thoughtful environment centered on always doing the right thing for our customers, teammates and our other stakeholders
• A purposely non-bureaucratic organization that embraces simplicity over complexity and emphasizes individual excellence in a team framework

NOTE: Compensation will be commensurate with experience. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Team Member may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization