Senior Director of Underwriting Technology Transformation

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Highmark Health Job Description : ---------------------

JOB SUMMARY

This job is responsible for leading the enterprise technology transformation of the underwriting technology operating model, decisioning systems, and technology products that enable a unified, scalable, and data-driven ecosystem.

The role shapes and delivers innovative product technology delivering enterprise-level value, integrating workflow orchestration, advanced analytics, and automation to improve underwriting productivity, pricing accuracy, and margin performance. It directly incorporates analytic insights, tools, and decisioning capabilities into day-to-day underwriting workflows, enabling realization of measurable financial outcomes at scale.

This position operates across a highly matrixed environment, partnering with product management, underwriting, actuarial, finance, sales, and technology leadership, and influencing senior leaders across the enterprise on the technological innovation needed to achieve desired business outcomes.

The role demands a high degree of strategic leadership, independent decision-making, and accountability for innovation and sustained business results, serving as the primary point of contact across technology teams to ensure successful execution of technology product development and deployment . Working with the health plan segments, it establishes enterprise standards for tools, data integration, and decisioning capabilities. The role will work directly with Executive Leadership, Senior Vice Presidents and other senior leaders to develop and influence cross-functional strategy.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead and provide expertise to technological innovation as part of the underwriting transformation, co-led in partnership with Underwriting, Actuarial, Technology and Product Management.
• Leads the continuous innovation of the product technology, ensuring we are addressing aging technology