Distribution Systems Technical-Development Team Manager

Distribution Systems Technical-Development Team Manager

• Lead and manage subject matter expert team, providing direction, coaching, and motivation while ensuring collaboration with engineering team, vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Oversee and execute transformation projects, immediate focus will be technology upgrades, bringing engineering mindset to solve the problem and in a long term including application rationalization (slimming down from ~50 apps to 10–20 through consolidation and decommissioning).
• Deliver cloud migration initiatives, moving applications to AWS Cloud with a focus on scalable, cost-effective architectures.
• Partner with user-facing and business teams to ensure seamless delivery of customer-facing systems.
• Act as a bridge between management and technical teams, ensuring clear communication, problem-solving, and effective project execution.
• Prepare to act as a successor to the current leadership role, with the ability to step up into a senior manager role in the future.
• Maintain oversight of development standards, code quality, and best practices while ensuring security, compliance, and performance optimization.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of IT/development experience, with at least 3–5 years in a leadership or team management capacity.
• Proven track record delivering transformation/upgrade projects, ideally in insurance, financial services, or large-scale enterprise systems.
• Strong knowledge of AWS Cloud services, serverless architecture, and database migration/tuning (Oracle, PostgreSQL).
• Background in Java, Spring Boot, Angular enterprise systems (hands-on not mandatory but strong technical understanding required).
• Strong people management skills with proven success leading Japanese engineering teams.
• Bilingual – Japanese (N1/N2) and English (business fluent).

• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Flight privileges

AIG is a global leader in commercial and personal insurance solutions; we are one of the world’s most far-reaching property casualty networks.