Chief Technology Officer/ Head of Engineering, Virtual insurance

About this role

Job Summary

We are seeking a visionary and execution-focused Chief Technology Officer / Head of Engineering to lead our end-to-end technology strategy, architecture, and engineering organization. This role is responsible for driving digital innovation, ensuring regulatory compliance, strengthening cybersecurity posture, and building a resilient, scalable, and data-driven insurance platform. The CTO will partner closely with executive leadership to align technology initiatives with business growth and customer experience goals.

Responsibilities

Technology Strategy & Leadership

• Define and execute technology vision to transform insurance experience for B2C customers aligned with business objectives and regulatory requirements.

• Lead digital platforms evolution across web and mobile applications.

• Drive cloud-native architecture strategy and platform scalability.

• Envision in AI adoption from development to user experience

• Build and foster a high-performance engineering culture emphasizing innovation, accountability and continuous improvement.

Platform & Engineering Excellence

• Oversee end-to-end software development lifecycle, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.

• Ensure system reliability, performance, and scalability across customer-facing and internal platforms.

• Optimize data architecture and warehouse strategy to enable trusted reporting and analytics.

• Lead modernization initiatives across infrastructure, applications, and integration layers.

Data & Analytics Governance

• Establish a unified and trusted data foundation to support reporting, regulatory submissions, and decision-making.

• Drive improvements in ETL orchestration, data freshness, and reporting SLA performance.

• Promote data governance, lineage, reconciliation accuracy, and audit readiness.

Security, Risk & Compliance

• Own company cybersecurity strategy and technology governance.

• Ensure IT governance frameworks, incident and change management controls, and audit processes are embedded in engineering practices.

• Strengthen identity management, infrastructure and data security, and threat monitoring.

Team and Culture

• Oversee engineering operations, FE, BE, QA, SRE, IS and Data teams to ensure high availability and business continuity.

• Establish engineering best practices, scalable architecture standards, and digital products development discipline.

• Foster a culture of experimentation, accountability, and measurable impact.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with GTM, Product, Operations, Finance, Risk and Compliance teams.

• Serve as a strategic advisor to the executive leadership on technology risk and innovation.

• Mentor and develop technical leaders within the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information technology, or a related field (Master’s preferred).

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in technology, preferably within insurance, fintech, or financial services.

• Proven experience leading digital transformation and AI adoption is prefered

• Experience in leading techonology team in regulated environment is a plus

• Deep understanding of IT governance, cybersecurity and regulatory compliance frameworks.

• Track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations.

• Passionate for innovation and building technology that meaningfully transforms customer…