FWD Insurance is a Hong Kong-headquartered life and health insurer whose stack pairs legacy core systems (AS/400, WebSphere, IBM CDC, Control-M) with Databricks, Spark, Kubernetes on Azure and Terraform, a classic two-speed insurer architecture. Hiring is accelerating and skews senior and finance-heavy, while job posts point to a group-wide data science and GenAI agenda plus AI-driven search visibility work.
Notable leadership hires: Head of Distribution
FWD Insurance, founded in 2013 and listed in Hong Kong, sells life insurance, health insurance, and savings and wealth management products across multiple Asian markets. The company is headquartered in Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, and employs between 5,001 and 10,000 people. Current hiring spans China, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Malaysia, covering finance, engineering, legal, operations, data, marketing, product and sales functions. A Head of Distribution search reflects ongoing focus on how products reach customers.
FWD runs Databricks, Apache Spark, Python, SAS and Power BI for data, Kubernetes on Azure with Terraform for infrastructure, AS/400 and WebSphere for core systems, plus Workday, ServiceNow and Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
Yes, hiring is accelerating, led by finance and engineering with legal, operations, data and marketing roles, mostly at senior, manager and director levels in China, Singapore, the UAE and Malaysia.
Job posts reference a frontend distribution platform, AutoML and advanced analytics, GenAI agent capability, HR process automation, investment transformation and an alternative investment platform.
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