Assistant Vice President, IT Data

Fortitude Reinsurance Company Ltd. (Fortitude Re) is one of the world’s leading providers of legacy reinsurance solutions. They work with the world’s leading insurance companies to help them execute comprehensive, transformational solutions for legacy Life & Annuity and P&C lines. Fortitude Re manages a general account of approximately $55 billion across life, annuity, and property & casualty insurance products. The company takes a long-term view on growth and is proud to be backed by a consortium of sophisticated institutional investors led by The Carlyle Group and T&D Insurance Group. Incorporated under the laws of Bermuda on January 1, 2017, Fortitude Re’s roots in the insurance industry and the experience of their leadership go back many decades. Fortitude Re’s leadership team has an average industry tenure of over 20 years, and an impressive track record of successfully managing the most complex legacy liabilities. Their deep insurance experience and proprietary risk modeling capabilities allow them to structure bespoke transactions that benefit both insurance companies and their policyholders. Fortitude Re continues to strengthen its ability to pursue further growth and provide innovative solutions for the global insurance industry. Click here for more information about Fortitude Re.

The AVP, IT Data will lead technology initiatives and is responsible for data and application architectures, patterns, and operations across the company. This primary IT role is frequently engaged with our internal IT team to lead and implement a well-governed data solutions to ensure data and application flows are automated and offer straight-through processing using a cloud-first technology stack. This role is based in our Brentwood, TN office on a hybrid basis.

What You Will Do:

• Lead a small team and collaborate IT peers to work on strategic and tactical initiatives related to data infrastructure, data modeling, analytics/reporting, python development, cloud architecture (within AWS and Azure), and applications development.
• Utilize an agile development model that leverages onshore and offshore resources.
• Work closely with IT and business partners to develop capability-based roadmaps.
• Understand current state process/data flows and propose optimizations for future state process/data flows.
• Ingest and analyze new/existing data sets and implement automation and straight-through processing.
• Design and implement data processing (ETL, ELT) and data approval workflows.
• Engage with data vendors to coordinate secure data transfers.
• Provide long term technology solutions to financial modeling using data visualizations/dashboards, data science, ML and AI.
• Evaluate SaaS solutions from a technology lens in partnership with our business teams.
  
  

What You Will Have:

• Bachelor's degree in Math, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum experience of seven years in programming (Python, Julia and/or R).
• Experience building cloud-based data solutions in AWS using services such as S3, Redshift, Lambda, Glue, API Gateway. Knowledge of infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) preferred. AWS certification a plus.
• Background building event driven microservices and / or service-oriented architectures for enterprise level production workloads.
• Proficient in SQL, NoSQL, data lake, data warehouse, data lake house and big data concepts and frameworks, and how to write and optimize advanced queries.
• Robust knowledge data governance and modern data quality techniques.
• Prior knowledge and experience in the fintech, investment banking or insurance industry.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and conceptual skills.
• Strong verbal and written skills.
  
  

The base salary range for this role is listed below and will be commensurate with candidate experience. Pay ranges for candidates may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. In addition to base salary, all employees are eligible for an annual bonus based on company and individual performance as well as a generous benefits package.

Base Salary Range

$132,600 — $165,900 USD

What We Offer:

We offer competitive benefits in a fast-paced, dynamic and nimble culture including:

• Unlimited PTO policy
• Up to 12 paid company holidays
• Up to 16 hours per year of paid volunteer time
• Competitive 401(k) plan - US Employees Only
• Paid parental leave
• Learning and Development Stipend
• Mental Health and Wellbeing support
• Health, vision, dental, and life insurance with additional access to health and wellness programs
• Flexible working environment
• Actuarial Exam Support through our Actuarial Development Program (ADP) for Actuarial employees
• Actuarial Program Rotation for ADP employees
• For all Actuarial Life AVP and above roles not based out of our Nashville, TN office: 30% travel is required to our Nashville, TN office
  
  

At Fortitude Re, we believe that diversity and inclusion are critical to our future and our mission- creating a foundation for a creative workplace that leads to innovation, growth, and profitability. Through a wide variety of programs and initiatives, we invest in each employee, seeking to ensure that our people are not only respected as individuals, but also truly valued for their unique perspectives.

We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer and evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, diversity of thought and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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