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The AVP, Software Engineering Lead is a senior technology leader responsible for defining and executing engineering solutions with an AI-first mindset across the Corporate Functions IT organization. Reporting to the CIO of Corporate Functions, this role drives the re-imagination of software engineering, improving our software development lifecycle using AI-first processes, and ensuring AIdriven capabilities are designed, built, and scaled safely, reliably, and in alignment with enterprise standards, governance, and risk.

This role sets the roadmap for advanced software engineering teams to deliver AIenabled solutions, agentaugmented workflows, and AIfirst engineering capabilities, partnering closely with Data & AI, Product, Architecture, Security, Risk, and Business leaders. The AVP will drive the modernization of engineering practices, accelerating delivery and productivity, while demonstrating measurable business value.

This role can have a Hybrid or Remote work schedule. Candidates who live near one of our office locations (Hartford CT, Charlotte, NC or Chicago IL) will have the expectation of working in an office 3 days a week. Candidates who do not live near an office will have a remote work arrangement, with the expectation of coming into an office as business needs arise. Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship

Key Responsibilities

AI-first Software Engineering Strategy & Execution

• Define and lead the AI engineering strategy aligned to enterprise technology, Data & AI, and business priorities.
• Own endtoend software engineering reimagination and rollout of AI-first tools and processes to our technology organization.
• Ensure AI-first software solutions are engineered for security, resiliency, performance, cost efficiency, and operational sustainability.

AIFirst Engineering & Platform Enablement

• Establish and evolve AIfirst engineering standards, patterns, and best practices, including GenAI and agentaugmented development approaches.
• Drive adoption of AIassisted development tooling and modern engineering accelerators to improve developer productivity and quality.
• Partner with Architecture and Platform teams to define reusable AI engineering reference architectures, integration patterns, and guardrails.
• Promote consistency and scale across AI implementations while enabling innovation and responsible experimentation.

Delivery, Quality & Operational Excellence

• Drive acceleration and efficiency using AI across software engineering teams, balancing speed, quality, risk, and cost.
• Strengthen and champion AI-first SDLC, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and automation practices.
• Ensure production readiness through robust testing, observability, monitoring, and incident response practices.
• Use datadriven insights to improve delivery predictability, flow efficiency, and engineering health.

Governance, Risk & Controls

• Partner with Data & AI, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Cybersecurity, and Architecture teams to ensure AI engineering solutions meet enterprise governance and regulatory expectations.
• Implement required engineering controls, including logging, auditability, model integration controls, and operational safeguards.
• Ensure alignment with the Enterprise AI Operating Model, risk tiering, and approval processes.
• Proactively identify and mitigate technology, security, and operational risks associated with AIenabled systems.

Talent Leadership & Engineering Culture

• Elevate highperforming software engineering teams with AI-first mindset.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and coaching to senior engineering talent.
• Drive workforce strategy, succession planning, and capability uplift aligned to futureready AI and engineering skills.
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of technology experience in software engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Led AI centric software engineering transformations
• Proven experience building software engineering practices, with a special focus on AI-first engineering.
• Deep expertise in agentic AI concepts and architectures, including multi-agent systems and non-deterministic workflows.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to operate across strategy, architecture, and execution.
• Demonstrated success influencing distributed, and crossfunctional engineering teams.
• Experience operating within regulated, risksensitive environments (insurance or financial services strongly preferred).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior leaders across Technology, Data & AI, and the Business.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field (advanced degree preferred).

Technical & Engineering Experience

• Expertise building and leveraging Agentic AI solutions in support of software engineering processes and reimagining the software lifecycle with an AI lens.
• Expertise implementing modern software engineering practices, cloudnative architectures, APIdriven and eventbased systems.
• Strong background in CI/CD, DevSecOps, automationfirst delivery, and reliability engineering.
• Familiarity with AIassisted development tools, AI platforms, and modern engineering accelerators.
• Experience defining engineering standards, reference architecture, and platform reuse strategies

Compensation

The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartford's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is:

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