Head of Engineering

About Pioneer

Disruptive. Customer Centered. Transformational.

Admiral Pioneer exists within Admiral Group as a venture studio, providing the environment to grow new businesses. We leverage Admiral's strengths to deliver strong, commercially viable businesses that meet the financial needs of new audiences and respond to emerging opportunities.

We aim to disrupt markets with a customer-centric approach by experimenting and validating new products, business models, and partnerships through a disciplined, discovery-driven process.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the engineering strategy to scale our modular insurance platform.
• Build and support empowered, high-performing engineering teams across multiple domains.
• Scale and evolve a cloud-native, distributed architecture with excellent observability and automation.
• Implement agentic and independent-agent paradigms into our platform and products.
• Promote engineering excellence through continuous delivery, clean code, and strong governance.
• Collaborate with Product, Data, and Commercial teams to drive customer-centric innovation.
• Maintain high standards in security, reliability, and operational excellence.

Skills and Experience

• Expertise in engineering high-scale, distributed systems.
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native, event-driven platforms (preferably AWS or GCP).
• Ability to adopt or pioneer agentic software patterns and autonomous systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in agile, fast-paced environments.
• Passion for delivering customer value through high-quality software.
• Understanding of engineering governance, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, GitOps, automated testing, and infrastructure as code.
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with technical problem-solving.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and business stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in a hybrid setup and supporting distributed teams.

Leadership and Behavioural Attributes

• Lead with humility, curiosity, and high standards.
• Foster a psychologically safe, inclusive, and feedback-rich team culture.
• Prioritize mentoring, coaching, and professional development.
• Collaborate effectively with peers in Product, Data, Design, and Commercial functions.
• Make evidence-based decisions and promote experimental, outcome-driven thinking.
• Maintain attention to detail while focusing on strategic impact.

Admiral: Where You Can

We value diversity and inclusion. Our culture allows you to Be You, grow at your own pace, make a difference for our customers and colleagues, and share in our future. Eligible colleagues can receive up to £3,600 of free shares annually after one year of service.

We offer 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), increasing up to 38 days with tenure. Additional options include buying or selling up to five days of leave.

Recognized as a Great Place to Work for Women, Wellbeing, and overall for over 25 years, we are committed to removing barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality, or other protected characteristics.

Our benefits support a healthy work-life balance. View some of our key benefits here .