Welcome at Yuzzu

Our slogan is 'surprisingly smoothly insured'. The same goes for your career at Yuzzu, the Belgian market leader in direct insurance. As a new employee, we welcome you to a surprisingly smooth and dynamic working environment, where we always speak clear language and keep our promises. Without small print, and with a smile.

Would you like to invest your energy and talent in an insurance company in full growth? Then take a quick look at this vacancy and apply by sending your CV and motivation letter to [email protected]!

Yuzzu is currently seeking a Head of Software Delivery

Which are your most important targets?

He/She will be responsible for overseeing the entire software development lifecycle, ensuring high-quality software is delivered on time and within budget, and aligned with business objectives (Scope).

Key responsibilities include leading cross-functional teams, managing agile development processes, implementing with Technical Manager DevOps practices, ensuring quality assurance, and managing stakeholder and vendors relationships.

Which are your responsibilities?

• Strategic Leadership: Aligning the IT delivery roadmap with the organization's strategic goals and contributing to the overall IT strategy.
• Team Leadership & Development: Building and leading high-performing, cross-functional delivery teams, mentoring staff, and managing performance and talent development.
• Process Management: Overseeing with Scrum master and Product owner, agile development cycles (Scrum), backlogs, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Functional management: Supervising, in collaboration with the Product Owner, the management of the various products and solutions.
• Quality Assurance: Ensuring with Scrum master code quality, maintaining high test coverage, and promoting best practices in code reviews.
• Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating with IT technical Manager, Head of digital, technical challenges, risks, and obstacles that could hinder delivery.
• Stakeholder Communication: Acting as a key liaison between IT development teams, product management, business, vendors and other stakeholders.
• Release Management: Coordinating with Scrum master deployments, versioning, and the entire release management process to ensure smooth delivery into production.
• Budget and Resource Management: Overseeing IT project budgets, forecasting, and ensuring teams are appropriately resourced.

What are your skills and experiences?

• Leadership Skills: Proven experience in leading and mentoring teams, making sound decisions, and fostering a positive engineering culture.
• Technical Expertise: Deep understanding of software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, DevOps), cloud technologies (AWS), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Functional Skills: Understanding of the P&C insurance industry and the Guidewire and NCMS technical product.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, stakeholders, and leadership in F/E, NL is a plus.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address complex technical and project-related issues.
• Project Management: Experience with project planning, scheduling, progress monitoring, and budget control.
• Business Acumen: Ability to understand and align technical delivery with business objectives and customer needs.

What do we offer?

• A competitive salary with extra-legal benefits.
• A friendly and open working atmosphere in a pleasant environment.
• A diverse and motivating role at the heart of our company.
• Autonomy based on your skills.
• A good work-life balance, thanks to hybrid working setup.
• Ongoing training and support.

Who is Yuzzu?

Yuzzu is the Belgian market leader in direct insurance. Member of the Axa Group, Yuzzu is market leader in direct insurance in Belgium. Every day, our 175 staff are on hand to guarantee a quality and personalised service for our 150,000 customers and our partners.

Yuzzu today remains a company that operates on a human scale. At its offices in Brussels and at the 6 shops located throughout Belgium, the atmosphere is friendly and informal, reflecting the spirit of a young and growing company.

Yuzzu attaches great importance to its staff and the quality of interpersonal relations. Because it takes a solid team to meet everyday challenges and translate them into effective and innovative solutions for our customers. Do you want to be part of our team? Apply now!