Independencepet Group

Independencepet Group

Sr Director Core Insurance Platform

Chicago, IL · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 21 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentCloud PlatformsCI/CDRESTComplianceCRMLoad TestingLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationClaims Management

About the role

  • The role ensures core insurance capabilities enable business growth, regulatory compliance, and platform sustainability, while leading IT engineering, integrations, and platform operations for EIS.
  • Director ensures the platform is secure, scalable, high-performing, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

Responsibilities

  • Own the enterprise technical strategy, implementation, operation, and lifecycle of the EIS platform, ensuring core insurance capabilities scale across brands and enable long-term business growth, product innovation, and improved operational efficiency (Policy Administration, Billing & Payments, Claims Management, Product and Rules Configuration)
  • Own platform-level technical strategy and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and business priorities
  • Lead the technical application architecture and implementation patterns for EIS within a cloud-based, API-driven ecosystem.
  • Enforce configuration-first and upgrade-safe design principles.
  • Drive architectural decisions and tradeoffs balancing scalability, speed, cost, and regulatory risk.
  • Own technical integrations between EIS and: (Web and mobile digital platforms o CRM platforms (e.g., Dynamics 365), Payments (e.g., Stripe or equivalent) o Pricing/rating engines (e.g., Earnix), Document generation, imaging, and data/analytics platforms
  • Lead system integrators and contract delivery pods through clear technical direction, delivery governance, and performance accountability.
  • Own EIS vendor strategy, performance, and governance, ensuring value realization, alignment to business outcomes, and architectural compliance.
  • Drive improved delivery predictability, quality, and platform reliability.
  • Leads through a combination of internal engineering leaders and external partners, supporting a multi-layered delivery organization.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in senior technology leadership roles with enterprise-scale accountability.
  • Hands-on leadership experience with EIS Insurance Suite (Policy, Billing, Claims).
  • Strong knowledge of: Core insurance system architecture, Integration patterns (REST, events, messaging), Cloud infrastructure and platform services
  • Proven experience managing system integrators and offshore delivery teams.

Nice to have

  • 15+ years in IT delivery for insurance platforms (P&C preferred
  • Pet Insurance a plus).

Benefits

  • Define, review, and act on platform health KPIs with executive stakeholders (uptime, defect leakage, performance, release success).
  • Comprehensive full medical, dental and vision Insurance
  • Basic Life Insurance at no cost to the employee
  • Company paid short-term and long-term disability
  • 12 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Personal Paid Time Off
  • Paid holidays and company-wide Wellness Day off
  • Paid time off to volunteer at nonprofit organizations
  • Commuter Benefits

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This listing is sourced directly from Independencepet Group's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.