**RiverStone is currently only considering candidates who live or would be willing to relocate to either the Manchester, NH (USA) or Belfast (Northern Ireland) areas. No agencies are being considered at this time.**
About the Company
RiverStone is a group of insurance, reinsurance, and service companies specializing in the acquisition and management of legacy business and captive insurance liabilities. RiverStone was founded in 1999 as a run-off specialist for Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, a leading global insurance and reinsurance group headquartered in Canada. Having the financial support of Fairfax behind us increases our flexibility and allows us to be more creative in how we provide solutions.
About the Role
The CIO is responsible for the end to end leadership of the Technology organization, including Application Development, Enterprise Architecture, Production Support, Business Intelligence/Data function, and Cyber Security. The role is responsible for the development, senior leadership alignment, and execution of the technology strategy to enable RiverStone to successfully achieve its business objectives. The CIO also ensures disciplined governance, robust service delivery, and alignment with the business strategy.
Responsibilities
- Proactively define and communicate a multi-year, future-focused technology strategy and roadmap aligned to enterprise objectives and modernized technology (e.g. Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, automation, etc.); set clear outcomes, measures, and sequencing to deliver business value.
- Stay abreast of and advise company (EXCO) about the key developments in technology and within our business sector that RiverStone must focus on and leverage to achieve its corporate strategies and thrive as a business.
- Champion Belfast and other strategic locations as integral to the technology plan; foster an inclusive, high performance culture across sites.
- Transformational leadership, inspiring and motivating teams to innovate and achieve excellence.
- Build, coach, and retain high performing leaders and teams across IT department; set clear goals and career paths.
- Model RiverStone leadership behaviors; drive clarity, accountability, bring people together and foster collaboration across Corporate Operation Business Unit and with business partners across the Company.
- Serve as a strategic partner to ExCo and senior leaders; provide transparent updates on strategy, delivery, risks, and tradeoffs.
- Establish and enforce IT Governance, including prioritization, resourcing, and status transparency for the technology projects.
- Own the Enterprise Architecture (information, solution, application, and platform architecture) and ensure standards are practical, adopted, and evolve with the business.
- Direct the Help Desk and Production Support functions; define, monitor, and report service level objectives (SLOs) and operational KPIs.
- Partner with data engineering and analytics leaders to establish standards for data governance, quality, and lifecycle management; deliver trusted, timely insights for decision makers.
- Provide executive oversight of Cyber Security; ensure policies, controls, monitoring, and incident response meet regulatory and audit expectations.
- Lead technology vendor strategy and relationships; negotiate value, measure performance, and ensure third party risk is actively managed.
- Provide input to the corporate Security Policy and ensure IT/Cyber policies and procedures conform to the policy.
Qualifications
- 12+ years in progressively senior technology roles, including ownership of enterprise scale portfolios and operations.
- Demonstrated success implementing IT governance, and managing multi-site technology teams.
- Executive level experience owning Enterprise Architecture and infrastructure across prod/dev/DR environments.
Required Skills
- Strong leadership, excellent written and oral communication skills, and change management skills; able to set direction and build trust with global teams.
- Proven vendor management and budget stewardship; ability to align investment with business outcomes.
Preferred Skills
- Demonstrates alignment with by modeling RiverStone’s values.
- Prioritizes and organizes work in self-directed manner.
- Attains and maintains knowledge of assigned department.
Equal Opportunity Statement
RiverStone is committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace, ensuring equal opportunity for all employees and applicants.
