Role: VP Engineering/AVP Engineering Location: London, UK Contract position- Initially 6 months Mandatory: Excellent work experience with Insurance domain. Roles and Responsibilities Ownership of the strategic vision and roadmap for all products within their domain. Establishes the contribution that technology can make to business objectives, conducting feasibility studies, producing high-level business models, and preparing business cases. Ensures compliance between business strategies, enterprise transformation activities and technology directions, setting strategies, policies, standards and practices. Responsible for effective and timely development of new and/or enhanced systems/technologies. Monitors all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle and Production Support service levels. Ensures high level technical support is provided. Works closely with customers, other IT managers, and management to identify and maximize opportunities to use technology to improve business processes. Prepares business cases, including financial analyses of potential new technologies/systems/applications. Evaluates based on company strategic needs and resource availability. Oversees business analysis, development work and quality assurance of projects for assigned systems/technologies. Contributes to the development of information technology development standards, policies, processes and procedures to ensure consistent compatibility and integration throughout the company. ..... full job details .....