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 have an amazing reputation as a premier employer and can offer 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.

If you are interested please apply ASAP. The People Network is an employment agency and will respond to all applicants within three - five working days. If you do not hear within these timescales please feel free to get in touch.