About the Position

Principal Technical Consultant - Insurance

Principal Technical Consultants are experienced consultants with equal parts deep technical knowledge, and practical experience deploying that to deliver value in a business and industry context. They are responsible for devising novel and practical solutions to our clients’ trickiest problems and then getting them implemented to deliver business outcomes.

Responsibilities

Client Delivery and Advisory (around half your time)

Using your knowledge, skills, and experience to devise solutions to hard problems and deliver real-world solutions for our clients.
Taking overall responsibility for the quality of delivered solutions, either working individually or as part of a team with oversight over the quality within your area of expertise.
Building strong relationships with clients and using these to generate client loyalty and growth.
Mentoring and coaching junior colleagues in both technical and consultancy skills.
Working alongside Delivery Directors to ensure clients receive a great service and experience.

FS&I Go-to-Market (around half your time)

Helping shape our go-to-market strategy for the sector: which problems we go after, how we package those into repeatable offerings, and how we position them against the competition.
Leading the technical shaping of FS&I bids and pitches: running early-stage client conversations, setting the solution direction, and writing the technical sections of proposals.
Acting as our subject matter expert on insurance and wider financial services, giving the go-to-market team the domain grounding to position credibly with carriers, brokers, MGAs, and Lloyd’s market participants.
Building Softwire’s reputation in the sector through published writing, conference and panel appearances, and taking part in industry forums and working groups.
Contributing to Softwire’s communities of practice in your technical and industry areas, and producing thought leadership that stands up to scrutiny from practitioners.
Networking, representing Softwire at events, and developing your own professional network across the market.

Requirements

8+ years experience in technical roles, including at least 4 years in an agency/consultancy context.
Deep knowledge and proven experience in at least one of the following areas:
- Data engineering
- Cloud platform architecture/migration (AWS and/or Azure)
- Digital platform architecture and enterprise modernisation
- AI engineering
Experience in or with financial services, and the ability to hold a credible conversation about the sector from the first meeting.
Ideally, experience in insurance, specifically the commercial, speciality, or London markets.
A track record of delivering high-value client outcomes through expert design and delivery of technical solutions.
Comfortable working in ambiguous contexts, making decisions with incomplete information, and working with multiple stakeholder agendas.
Excellent consulting and advisory skills, with the ability to lead, persuade, explain, and communicate with all levels of stakeholders, including C-suite.
Pre-sales experience in an agency/consultancy context.

We Offer

Base salary: £113,700 - £127,900
Profit share: Average of between £19,000 and £25,250
Pension: Additional 5% of salary
Additional benefits:
- 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy 10 and sell 5)
- 3.5 days additional days off for company-wide morale activities
- AIG income protection
- Travel card loan scheme
- Zero emission car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
- Time off for charitable activities
- Sabbatical available on request
- Payroll charity donations
- Headspace plus
- Free annual eye test
- Long service awards
- Flexible working options and patterns

About the Company

Softwire is one of the UK’s leading digital technology consultancies, offering services in data, AI, cloud, CX, innovation, design, and software engineering. We deliver high-profile, mission-critical, and transformational projects for household names across the public and private sectors.

Softwire was founded on one simple idea: be the outstanding place to work for smart, passionate technologists who want to make an impact. Attract the best, create a culture where people thrive, and offer our customers access to capabilities that are truly market-leading.

And it seems to be working - we were recently voted number 1 company to work for in the UK at the Best Company awards; we employ outstanding people across all capabilities (typical destinations after Softwire include Google, DeepMind, start-up founder, algorithmic trading, and AI research roles); and we have helped our clients deliver some of the hardest, most interesting tech programmes, across private and public sectors.

A big part of this is our culture and values, and we are looking for people who share our core beliefs about what makes a great place to work:

That if a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing properly.
That work should be fulfilling but can also be fun.
That kindness matters and should be extended to employees and clients alike.
That by being trusting and trustworthy as an organisation and as individuals we can dispense with tedious bureaucracy and rules.

When you work with Softwire, you’re not only becoming part of a team with in-depth technical skills and delivery expertise – you’ll be working in a high-trust environment alongside skilled, kind, fun people who are passionate about creating amazing services and experiences that solve real problems.

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Principal Technical Consultant - Insurance

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