IT Chief Architect (AVP)
Job Information
- Job ID
- 96363
- Job Title
- IT Chief Architect (AVP)
- Recruiter
- Progress Ltd.
- Division
- IT
- Job Type
- Full-time
- Location
- Tokyo - 23 Wards
- Salary
- 12 million yen ~ 17 million yen
- Work Hours
- Standard office hours
- Holidays
- Standard holidays
- Date Refreshed
- May 23rd, 2008 13:57
General Requirements
- Minimum Experience Level
- Over 10 years
- Minimum English Level
- Business Level
- Minimum Japanese Level
- Basic
- Minimum Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Visa Status
- Japanese national or permission to work in Japan required
Job Description
As Deputy CIO, the Chief Architect will play a key strategic and managerial role, leading efforts to improve the overall organization’s utilization of IT processes and systems. S/he will need to keep the big picture of information organization in mind while performing architecture reviews of major IT projects and identifying problems before they arise. To maintain control over major developments, the Chief Architect will also be planning and managing the IT budget.
This is an opportunity to enter a fast-growing organization that has a strong commitment towards the Japan marketplace, and to take the firm’s information systems to the next level. This is also a chance to establish your reputation as a leading IT professional in the insurance industry in Japan. The position will appeal to those who thrive on challenge, and have ambitions to grow into a CIO role, or further.
Required Skills
Indispensable
- At least ten years of IT experience in the insurance industry, predominantly in Applications Development for life insurance
- At least five years’ of the above ten must be experience exclusively in Life insurance
- At least five years’ experience managing a staff of twenty or more
- Fluency in spoken and written English
Important (some compromise possible)
- At least basic spoken Japanese skills
- Experience in developing an in-house policy admin system for Life Insurance or Annuities
- Understanding (experience) of Infrastructure, including how to size systems and judge which fit business requirements
Desirable (nice to have)
- Knowledge of the policy admin system - Ingenium
- Experience managing IT budgets
- Experience in training IT systems and implementations
- Overseas work or educational experience
Company Description
The company is a top five global insurer by market capitalization, and is one of the fastest growing in the world. It has also joined the small number of foreign insurance companies in Japan that have “made it,” beyond doubt as a long-term player in the market.
There have been significant improvements in IT at this company in recent years, as the firm has moved a long way from the domestic situation it inherited. There is, however, still plenty that must be done. IT processes need to be improved to accommodate Life products, as well as an expanding VA business. Long-standing demands for various adjustments and tools from the business must be satisfied. Package solutions must be adapted to fit in with the local situation more effectively.
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