GDS Consulting - Guidewire Quality Engineering Leader

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Job Name - GDS Consulting Quality Engineering Leader - Americas Insurance

Position Summary

Lead the strategy, growth, team and operations for AmericasInsurance Sector within GDS Quality Engineering competency

Essential Functions Of The Job

The Americas Insurance QE leader will lead / build out capability and deliver across various Insurance LoBs – P&C, Life and Annuities. The QE leader will be responsible for:

• Managing and running Insurance QE engagements for Americas within EY GDS
• Run end to end QE delivery for Americas Insurance
• Will have client delivery teams reporting from across cross functional teams
• Overall responsibility for QE growth including large transformation and managed QE deal participation, talent acquisition and new capability build out
• People and performance management with proven ability to nurture and build teams across clients and sustain teams for longer period
• Planning, prioritization and tracking of QE pipeline for Americas Insurance sector
• Pursuit Leadership for large deals
• Host several client stakeholders to create the conducive & collaborative environment for client innovation.
• Should be able to navigate a hybrid consulting organization and manage several stakeholder groups
• Expand the Quality Engineering services for Insurance to new areas and trends in the market
• Build the QE business strategy for Americas Insurance sector
• Innovative mindset to build industry leading solutions
• Drive the Location Strategy to leverage global talent pool
• Drive the Talent agenda, focused on talent acquisition, up-skilling initiatives and talent management
  
  

Analytical-Decision Making Responsibilities

• Understanding the client’s situation and pricing the deals appropriately
• Exhibit EYs partnership spirit to our clients with proactive governance of our engagements coupled with a broader perspective of clients objectives and goals
• Continuously look for opportunities to build and sell industry
• Deliver value to the clients by providing solutions that help improve their business metric
• Analyze the market dynamics to build the robust future roadmap
• Liaison with the clients directly to resolve issues / conflicts
  
  

Education And Experience

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or information systems
• 20-25 years of relevant experience with atleast 5 years in leadership capacity
• Should have at least 10 years’ experience in delivering Guidewire transformation programs for Insurance clients
• Should have led team of at least 200 professionals
• Should have led large transformation programs and accounts
• At least 1 Certification in program management (PMI, Prince2) or Scrum Certifications/ safe agilist etc.
• Guidewire ACE certification
  
  

Knowledge And Skills Requirements

• Has prior experience in setting up centers of excellence in Insurance packaged products (Guidewire etc. )
• Strong and inspirational leadership with focus on domain led technical delivery excellence.
• Grow and sustain large, high-performing teams; specialization in Guidewire with strong familiarity of market landscape
• Must have the ability to engage with client executive leadership, lead large pursuits and take end to end ownership of deal making
• Paint a compelling vision of the future, leverage storytelling and rally others with passion and purpose.
• Strong communication skills and able to successfully articulate techno functional concepts to both business and technology audience
• Strong experience in managing and working with globally connected teams
• Experience in reviewing decisions and articulate pros/cons of options based on personal experience, industry knowledge, and best practices.
  
  

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