Director, Insurance Solutions New Business Platform

Permanent Full Time We are looking for a **Director - Insurance Solutions New Business Platform and Digital Journey** Our Technology, Canada & Great West Life Co team is a strategic partner in our business with an ambition to be a customer first, forward-thinking, agile technology organization delivering secure, resilient and leading solutions that support Canada Life and the well-being of millions of Canadians. If you are interested in leading a team adopting to Agile ways of working and know how to “get things done”, then this is the role for you **Role Overview** This is an exciting and challenging role accountable for Insurance Solutions New Business Platform and Digital Journey. You will provide customer first advisory, solutions and technical leadership to Canada Life’s Insurance Solutions New Business platform and digital journey. Reporting to the VP of Insurance Solutions Technology with responsibilities for people management, success is measured by the team’s collective ability to generate positive results for Canada Life’s business and clients. **What you will do**: - Customer Relationship Management: Nurture relationships and collaboration_ - Act as a trusted advisor to the business areas by proactively building relationships to understand the business’ current state, short and longer-term priorities - Partner with preferred vendors to understand product roadmaps, recommend new solutions and ideas to drive both customer and business outcomes - Ensure leaders and team members cut through siloes to work together towards common goals - Direct People Leadership: Model our culture and values_ - Embody our employee promise: to inspire, value and empower our talent - Provide clarity around roles and responsibilities, priorities and invest in talent career development - Lead a team to meet and exceed goals around delivery, adoption and support of technology services while ensuring execution excellence and team engagement - Contributes to team, financial, and workforce planning - Technology, Delivery, Adoption, Support_ - Execute business technology projects and large work package across on premise and cloud products - Directly collaborate with business stakeholders to prioritize incoming portfolio components. - Create and manage metrics dashboards to showcase productivity, costs, demand, supply and spend, using a data driven approach for decision making - Support business stakeholders by coordinating escalations to resolve user incidents - Keep current on industry technology direction and best practices **What you will bring**: - Excellent leadership skills with the ability to hire, inspire, train/develop, performance manage and drive high employee engagement - Ability to deal to generate urgency, create clarity thorough ambiguity and pivot quickly when needed - Experience with Insurance Technologies - Digital Channels, Book of Record (Ingenium or similar), Underwriting Management, Risk Management - Modern Technology Transformation Principles - Cloud, Devops, Operations Resiliency, Disaster Recovery - Ability to work in a matrixed technology organization by effectively partnering with partners teams to delivery optimal business and technology outcomes - Hands on experience with programming languages such as JAVA, VUE, React - Excellent written and verbal communication skills to prepare communications and interact effectively with all levels, technical and non-technical within the organization - Demonstrated experience in challenging the status quo and identifying areas of improvement (across people, process, and technology). - Preference and experience working in a complex environment that is rapidly evolving, and ambiguous with high expectations for excellence and achievement - Able to be "hands-on" with support, but also have a strategic / business mindset - Post-secondary degree/diploma in business or computer science or equivalent experience - A minimum of 15+ years’ related experience supporting technology platforms and delivering projects/products to enable businesses capabilities - Previous experience on risk management, data loss prevention, disaster recovery and business continuity. The base salary for this position is between **$92000****: - $170000** annually. This represents base salary only and does not represent other variable compensation components of our total compensation ( i.e. annual bonus, commission etc). If you are selected to move forward in our recruitment process, your recruiter will be able to discuss additional details of our total rewards program with you. Be your best at Canada Life Being a part of Canada Life means you have a voice. This is a place where your unique background, perspectives and talents are valued, and shape our future success. You can be your best here. You’re part of a diverse and inclusive workplace where your career and well-being are championed. You’ll have the opportunity to excel in your way, finding new and better ways to deliver excep