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Technical Lead - HX Renew
Location: London (Hybrid)
Salary: Up to £110,000 + 17.5% Bonus
The Opportunity
We're looking for an experienced Technical Lead to join a specialist Risk, Rating & Pricing Technology team, playing a key role in the evolution of our underwriting and pricing platforms.
This role will focus heavily on HX Renew, helping to deliver business-led initiatives, enable complex rating and pricing stories, and drive technical solutions across underwriting systems and integrations.
Working closely with Product Owners, Architects, Developers, and business stakeholders, you'll provide technical leadership across a modern cloud-based environment while remaining hands-on with solution design and technical decision-making.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong background in insurance or reinsurance technology who enjoys working at the intersection of underwriting, rating engines, cloud services, and API-led integration.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across the Risk, Rating & Pricing technology landscape.
- Lead solution design activities and shape technical direction for HX Renew initiatives.
- Work closely with business stakeholders to translate requirements and user stories into scalable technical solutions.
- Enable and deliver the underwriting and pricing roadmap through effective technology leadership.
- Drive integration initiatives between HX Renew and surrounding underwriting platforms.
- Support and guide Agile delivery teams through daily stand-ups and sprint ceremonies.
- Collaborate with architects, developers, and product teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards.
- Lead technical discussions and decision-making across projects and programmes.
- Support cloud-based application design, deployment, and optimisation.
- Promote engineering best practices, quality standards, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor developers and provide technical guidance across the wider team.
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Technical Environment
Key technologies and platforms include:
- HXRenew
- Underwriting Workbench
- Python/REST
- APIs
- Cloud Services (AWS and/or Azure)
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Microservices & Integrations
- SQL
- Databases
- Git Source Control
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Essential
- Previous experience as a Technical Lead, Solution Engineer, Lead Developer, or similar.
- Strong solution design and technical leadership experience.
- Experience delivering complex integration projects.
- Strong API and systems integration knowledge.
- Cloud platform experience (AWS and/or Azure).
- Ability to work closely with both technical and business stakeholders.
Highly Desirable
- Insurance or reinsurance industry experience
- Experience working with HX Renew
- Experience within underwriting, rating, pricing, or policy administration platforms.
- Python development experience.
- Experience supporting underwriting workbench solutions.
What We're Looking For
This role would suit someone who is effectively a Full Stack Technical Lead with the ability to:
- Lead solution design.
- Understand business requirements.
- Drive technical delivery.
- Manage complex integrations.
- Work heavily within HX Renew and underwriting technology.
- Operate across cloud, APIs, engineering, and architecture.
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