Head of Engineering

About Pioneer

Disruptive. Customer Centered. Transformational.

Admiral Pioneer exists within Admiral Group as a venture studio, providing the greenhouse in which to grow new businesses. We’re leveraging Admiral’s strengths to deliver commercially strong businesses that answer the financial needs of new audiences and respond to emerging opportunities.

We seek to disrupt the markets we enter, taking a truly customer-centric approach. We achieve this by experimenting and proving new products, business models and partnerships through a disciplined, discovery-driven approach.

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 best-in-class observability and automation.
• Embed agentic and independent-agent paradigms into our platform and product capabilities.
• Champion engineering excellence through continuous delivery, clean code, and robust governance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Commercial teams to drive customer-centric innovation.
• Establish and uphold elite standards in security, reliability, and operational excellence

Skills and Experience

• Deep expertise in engineering high-scale, distributed systems.
• Proven experience architecting and operating cloud-native, event-driven platforms (preferably AWS or GCP).
• Demonstrated ability to adopt or pioneer agentic software patterns and orchestrated autonomous systems.
• Strong track record of running cross-functional teams in agile, fast-paced environments.
• Passion for delivering measurable customer value through high-quality software.
• Solid 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 hands-on 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 a commitment to high standards.
• Foster a psychologically safe, inclusive, and feedback-rich team culture.
• Prioritise mentoring, coaching, and continuous professional development.
• Collaborate seamlessly with peers in Product, Data, Design, and Commercial functions.
• Make evidence-based decisions and promote experimental, outcome-driven thinking.
• Maintain attention to detail while keeping a clear focus on strategic impact.

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.

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