VP R&D

Location: Holon (Hybrid)
About Us
Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS) empowers the financial sector, with a focus on insurance, to transform and become digital, innovative, and agile. Backed by 40 years of industry expertise, Sapiens offers a complete insurance platform, with pre-integrated, low-code solutions and a cloud-first approach that accelerates customers’ digital transformation. Serving more than 600 customers in 31 countries, Sapiens offers insurers across Property & Casualty, Workers’ Compensation and Life markets the most comprehensive set of solutions, from core to complementary, including Reinsurance, Financial & Compliance, Data & Analytics, Digital, and Decision Management. Sapiens’ team of more than 5,000 employees operates through our offices in North America, the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific.
Job Description
A VP of R&D Development assumes overall responsibility and accountability for the coordination, planning, development, and testing of product releases. This involves management and scaling up of R&D teams globally, as well as continuous improvement of the development and release methodologies.
Main Roles & Responsibilities

• Responsibility for the development and testing of product releases on time, in high quality, within budget, and within planned content. In addition, support and maintenance of old product releases.
• Management of product releases from the point of initiation to successful completion, including coordination (with Product Management, Product Framework, and Professional Services), planning, and execution tracking.
• Management of global R&D development, testing, and release management teams directly and in a matrix structure.
• Drive & lead the growth of the R&D development teams in order to support business profitable growth.
• Define & continuously improve the methodologies & practices of product development and release management, in a microservices architecture (and during the transition phase).
• Enhance and improve teams’ performance to maximize teams’ effectiveness and achieve excellence.
• Implement R&D strategies and consistently promote innovation and creative problem solving.
  

• 10+ years of experience in leading R&D development teams in enterprise products that are subject to customization.
• Proven experience with microservice/distributed solution architecture.
• Proven experience with cloud products and platforms.
• A thorough understanding of advanced development methodologies and tools (Agile, DevOps, Continuous Integration, Microservices).
• Experience in leading teams globally. Ability to cultivate and grow teams in accordance with business needs.
• Experience of working in a matrix environment.
• Strategic thinking and decision-making abilities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to collaborate and resolve disagreements constructively through dialogue and creative solutions.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Background in Fintech industry – Advantage.