Senior Delivery Manager - Global Software Platform Build

Senior Delivery Manager - Global Software Platform Build (Insurance)

Remote UK High-Impact Leadership Role

A leading global Insurer is undertaking a major multi-year transformation to modernise its corporate life and pensions technology landscape. As part of this initiative, the company is building a new global digital platform entirely in-house, designed to support actuarial, pricing and underwriting operations across multiple geographies.

To support this programme, we are seeking an experienced Senior Delivery Manager with a strong software engineering background and a proven track record delivering complex, business-critical platforms within the insurance sector.

This is a senior, high visibility position with significant opportunity to influence architecture, engineering standards, delivery approach and long-term platform strategy. The platform will be deployed across nine countries, including the UK, Europe and Australia, and will involve working closely with C-level leaders and senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead multi-disciplinary delivery teams based across the UK, India, Bratislava and Spain, covering front end engineering, back end engineering, pricing, data and related disciplines.
• Oversee all aspects of the in house build of a new global digital platform, ensuring high quality engineering, robust design decisions and timely delivery.
• Provide hands on technical leadership, drawing on strong foundations in software development, architectural knowledge and modern engineering practices.
• Act as the senior technical interface to stakeholders across underwriting, actuarial, leadership and technology, offering clear updates, managing expectations and taking a confident, informed position when challenged.
• Drive agile delivery across sprints, scope, releases and operational readiness, ensuring the programme meets demanding timelines and quality benchmarks.
• Mentor and develop delivery teams, improving design maturity, engineering consistency and overall performance.
• Support the development of the platform roadmap, identifying opportunities to modernise, decommission legacy components and embed best practice across engineering and delivery.

Experience Required

• Strong technical background originating from software development, with the ability to guide engineers, resolve delivery issues and make pragmatic design decisions
• You MUST have proficiency across modern engineering and delivery technologies such as .NET, React, SQL, REST APIs, Azure DevOps and cloud based delivery models - strong enough knowledge to unblock developers and make design decisions
• Experience delivering in house built platforms (as opposed to vendor led implementations, 3rd party builds or packaged solutions).
• Insurance industry expertise is essential, ideally with exposure to Corporate Life & Pensions, actuarial systems, pricing engines or broader London Market environments.
• Knowledge of Databricks, MuleSoft, and integrated platform delivery.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior leaders across multiple geographies.
• Experience leading distributed engineering teams and driving high performance in a complex, fast moving delivery landscape.
• Exposure to AI enabled delivery (e.g. coding assistance, generating user stories) is beneficial - AI is already being used here for writing user stories and coding.

What's on offer:

This company has an amazing reputation as a premier employer and offers a wealth of flexibility and benefits.

This is a remote UK role, but some flexibility on infrequent travel within the UK and internationally will be required.

A fantastic package is on offer, including:

• Highly competitive salary (depending upon level of experience)
• Annual bonus of up to 15%
• Generous 12% non contributory pension
• Private Medical, 4 x DIS, Critical Illness, Income Payment Protection and flexible options including dental, gadget discounts, flu jabs and subsidised gym
• 25 days holiday with the option to buy/sell
• Enhanced maternity and paternity schemes

If you are a Senior Tech Delivery Manager who is still close to the coal face of development and want to apply your experience on a major, high impact project, then look no further!

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop and lead a high performing team and leave a lasting impact on this insurance business, so APPLY NOW to find out more.