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 commercially successful 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 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 leading 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 focusing 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 excel. You can grow and progress at a pace and direction that suits you, make a difference for our customers and colleagues, and share in our future with the opportunity to receive up to £3,600 of free shares annually after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) upon joining, increasing to a maximum of 38 days with tenure. You also have the option to buy or sell up to five additional days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. Recognized as a Great Place to Work for Women, Wellbeing, and overall, for over 25 years! We are committed to ensuring progression is not hindered by 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.

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