Software Development Lead

About the Role

Are you interested in joining a rapidly growing and dynamic international insurance company? Monument Belgium is seeking a Software Development Lead for our Brussels and Liège offices to strengthen our IT team. In this role, you will oversee the Software Development practice within Monument Insurance European Services, reporting to the local Head of IT. You will serve as the interface with the Group IT structure to align and develop standard practices at the Belgian level.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop processes to ensure the highest level of solution re-usability at the local level.
• Lead and shape talented development team leads and teams, supporting maturity growth and introducing new technologies.
• Actively participate in business projects execution with the Enterprise Architecture practice during solutioning and design phases before development.
• Manage, lead, and coach our Software Development Teams (Individual Life & Corporate Life), relying on each Team Lead in place.
• Grow and coach the team, address performance and potential dynamic issues, and ensure transversal practice alignment between Individual Life & Corporate Life development teams.
• Deliver and execute, launch, and iterate regularly in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Work with the local IT organization to define and implement processes (SDLC) and practices to enhance team effectiveness, and define software development best practices aligned with Group standards.
• Plan, prioritize, and allocate workload for engineers, ensuring the quality and timely completion of team tasks.
• Collaborate with the Architecture Practice to clarify and refine business requirements, transform them into technical designs, and write technical specifications and documentation for the engineering team.
• Work with the QA team to create functional test cases, review, and perform quality assurance testing on work performed by the engineering team.
• Develop and document coding standards and best practices.

Role Requirements

• 5 to 10 years of hands-on software development experience in an OO context with exposure to API development and consumption of legacy Cobol applications.
• 4 years of consistent experience as a technical lead for 10 or more full-time local development engineers in a software delivery structure using Agile/Scrum.
• Ability to work both individually and as part of a collaborative team.
• Mastery of software development processes (SDLC), methods, and trends: systems and technology tools.
• Excellent OO, data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to apply design patterns in architecture.
• Full-stack development experience and Agile software development management experience (Delphi, .Net, etc.).
• Ability to understand the company’s goals and objectives and translate them into effective technology solutions using required pragmatism.
• Experience in Insurance (Life Insurance).
• High standards with just-enough documentation, unit testing, code reviews, test automation, continuous integration and deployment, and a preference for agile methods.
• Fluent communication in English and French.

Location

Liège, Belgium

Equal Opportunities Statement

The Monument Re Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Our corporate values of Trust and Collaboration demonstrate our commitment to fostering an inclusive culture where all our employees feel respected and valued. We recognize that each employee brings their own unique skill sets, capabilities, immutable characteristics, and varied experiences to their work. In turn, the Monument Re Group provides a work environment for all our employees to achieve personal and professional growth and development throughout their careers with us.