Senior / Lead Implementation Engineer
Working Time Zone: U.S. Pacific Time overlap for several hours is required
Customer Description:
The customer operates in the insurance technology domain.
Project Description:
The project involves implementing and customizing a complex insurance-focused software platform for enterprise customers.
Project Phase:
Ongoing
Soft Skills:
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• P&C insurance experience in Western markets - UK market, US, or EU
• Someone who can name specific carriers, MGAs, or reinsurers and describe what they built for them
• Comfortable with P&C concepts: loss ratios, underwriting authority, submission triage, portfolio risk management
• Strong customer-facing presence
• High ownership and accountability
• Ability to operate effectively in changing environments
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Leadership through influence rather than authority
• Mentorship mindset
• Effective time management and prioritization
• Process-oriented approach to continuous improvement
Hard Skills / Must Have:
• Experience in UK or US P&C insurance markets. Experience with carriers, MGAs, or reinsurers. Must understand the terminology and workflows of the respective market (UK or US)
• AI in production: must demonstrate clear business impact. Insurance-related AI is preferred. Financial services AI is acceptable.Pure IT/infrastructure automation use cases are not sufficient
• Strong hands-on coding experience with Python, JavaScript, and SQL
• Experience building and debugging production systems and complex integrations
• Solid understanding of system design, APIs, data flows, and integration patterns
• Ability to adapt products through custom configurations
• Experience estimating technical work and managing delivery risks
• Familiarity with UAT processes and iterative delivery practices
• Strong documentation skills (runbooks and technical guides)
• Understanding of software delivery lifecycle and implementation best practices
Responsibilities and Tasks:
• Lead planning, scoping, execution, and delivery of complex customer implementations
• Own delivery timelines, risk identification, and mitigation
• Act as a technical escalation point for complex issues
• Design and implement production-grade, customer-specific solutions
• Translate ambiguous requirements into clearly scoped technical deliverables
• Lead technical discovery and solution design sessions with customers
• Write, debug, and maintain production and integration code
• Manage UAT cycles, customer feedback, and issue resolution
• Influence architectural decisions based on deployment experience
• Provide structured product feedback to influence the roadmap
• Develop and maintain delivery playbooks
• Automate internal processes to improve delivery efficiency

Technology Stack: Python, SQL, JavaScript
- Locations
- London, UK, Spain, Scotland, Cyprus
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
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