Head of IT, International (frequent travel required)
About Us:
A global fintech leader, Acrisure empowers millions of ambitious businesses and individuals with the right solutions to grow boldly forward. Bringing cutting-edge technology and top-tier human support together, we connect clients with customized solutions across a range of insurance, reinsurance, payroll, benefits, cybersecurity, mortgage services – and more.
The Head of IT is responsible for leading the strategy and integration of acquired companies. They will build the relationships with the business unit to lead to transformation activities to achieve an Acrisure-wide strategic portfolio of market-driven digital technology platforms poised for enrollment growth. The portfolio includes IT Infrastructure and IT Applications initiatives as well as Cybersecurity and digital transformation initiatives. They will work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders driving critical technology transformation strategies; designing system lifecycle stage plans; engaging market intelligence research; developing business case & ROI for initiatives; guiding quality technology deployment and IT portfolio management processes.
The Head of IT will have a multitude of IT integration projects in various stages at one time.
Essential Duties
Strategy – Full understanding of the IT program, portfolio & activities in accordance with the mission and goals of Acrisure and alignment of acquired companies needs.
Integration – Assess and manage integration of acquired companies that leads to a mature and efficient run state.
Line of Business Support – Understand business and revenue model end-to-end, which includes system alignment and optimization, both current and post integration run state.
Risk Management– Work with Cyber security to analyze current risk state and assist to optimize rick management.
Financial Management – Analyze current financial run state and measure against integration ROI.
Enterprise Architect Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain a strategic IT integration plan, leading a highly collaborative effort to deliver on IT initiatives to maximize value across Acrisure.
Develop and maintain ROI’s for integration in Financial, Risk and Service Management.
Maintain and/or improve existing nimble processes to provide integration programs on a roll forward basis.
Serve as a liaison between IT, corporate departments, and business units to coordinate the necessary support needed to provide successful implementation of integration and platform rationalization.
Collaborate with potential stakeholders to identify specific needs.
Manage risks and issues and taking corrective measurements
Coordinate the projects and their interdependencies
Manage and utilizing integration resources across projects
Manage stakeholders’ communication
Education and/or Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree with an Information Technology emphasis strongly preferred.
7+ years of Technology experience within a complex IT environment with 3+ years of leadership/managerial experience.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Experience applying project management best practices, integration or stack rationalization with design-thinking approaches
Experience using key performance indicators, metrics and data/predictive analytics to support planning, decision-making and continuous improvement efforts
Experience implementing technology stacks: Microsoft, GCP, Amazon, Line of Business and ERP (Workday, ADP, SAP, Deltek, Oracle, NetSuite, etc).
Experience supervising, training, motivating and mentoring staff in a high performing operation
Highly Desired: Hold a combination Project Management Certification (PMP, Agile, etc.) and/or Technical Certifications (Microsoft, Amazon, GCP, etc) and/or Security, Governance and Risk Certifications (CISSP, CRISC, Security+, CISM, ITIL, CGEIT, etc.)
Experience working with abstract concepts in innovative ways to solve problems.
Experience with consensus building to bring together opposing views and steering debates toward practical solutions and paths forward.
Other Qualifications:
Able to work independently and enjoy a high degree of interaction with team members
Ability to contribute to a collaborative environment by consistently demonstrating teamwork, high motivation, positive behavior and effort to achieve goals and objectives
Self-motivated and driven
Maintain a sense of urgency and ability to work with and meet deadlines
Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication, including the ability actively listen, and problem solve with minimal assistance
Demonstrates excellent time management and prioritization skills
Attention to detail and commitment to a high level of accuracy
The ability to multitask, prioritize, work independently, and use discretion surrounding sensitive information
