IT Head of Technical Solutions

As a Head of Technical Solutions for our Digital Transformation team, you will play a key technical leadership role, ensuring the software solutions for core insurance platforms for Auto line of business are designed, built and implemented using modern patterns and practices, and follows corporate standards. You will be responsible for leading a high-performing team of Sr. Software Engineers and Technical Leaders, ensuring a productive environment for the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and resilient software solutions. 

This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to modern agile development practices. You'll be both hands-on and strategic, diving deep into code to define system solutions and ensure its standards adherence and correct implementation, and establishing technical roadmaps, best practices and processes that you and all the engineering team will act upon to deliver quality and scalable software solutions.

The person on this role should have a passion to understand and apply software engineering and architectural design patterns for modern solutions, while learning how to manage and prioritize technology decisions over a portfolio of applications and drive modernization initiatives.

As a lead role within the software engineering organization, this person is expected to coach and mentor other members of the extended team and have the ability to communicate and negotiate within other senior technical and business leaders in order to articulate the right prioritization of activities.

The person in this role will be accountable for:

• Lead and mentor the Sr. Software Engineers and Lead Engineers team in software engineering and quality assurance best practices, and adherence to architectural standards and corporate processes
• Ensure a high level of excellence and performance on the Sr Software Engineers and Lead Engineers, their understanding of business and IT processes, as well as best practices and standards for software delivery 
• Provide technical engineering excellence in the software delivery practices, defining and leading the implementation of modern and reliable solutions that fulfill business requirements and adhere to the architecture and corporate guidelines.
• Drive adoption and execution of DevSecOps and Testing Automation across all teams; ensuring CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure are secure and automated
• Collaborate closely with business and IT stakeholders, product management and cross functional teams, to identify and solve complex problems, and align technical direction with strategic goals
• Be a focal point for regional and global IT requirements about applications on Mexico's Digital Enterprise scope
• Oversee both on-premises and cloud implementations; ensure smooth integration and operation of hybrid solutions
• Maintain compliance with industry and company standards, with continuous focus on security, scalability, and maintainability
• Assess and evaluate team members, manage performance, hiring, and promote their professional development
• Able to provide technical excellence while embracing flexibility over building "bulletproof" systems
• Build, maintain and implement complex, large-scale applications capable of integrating with multiple internal/external systems 
• Coordinate and execute Proofs of Concepts for new technologies, architecture patterns or standards.
• Engage in and lead development efforts across the full SDLC from design and coding through to test, build, QA, deployment, and maintenance