Head of Engineering, UK Insurance

4 days ago

StainesuponThames Surrey, United Kingdom Bupa Full time


Head of Engineering - UK Insurance

Permanent

London / Staines / Manchester (Hybrid Working)

Full time/part time

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

We make health happen.

At Bupa, we're passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind you'll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives.

Right from the start you'll become part of our digital strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.

As the Head of Engineering UK Insurance, you'll provide leadership and direction for IT technology enabled change delivery across UK Insurance and wider UK Technology teams. You'll lead agile ways of working and shape and run new DevSecOps teams and CI/CD pipelines to deliver business and technology transformation initiatives across the organisation. This is a senior leadership role and is responsible for delivering joined up solutions across Digital, Technology, Data & Change strategy for UK Insurance.

How you'll help us make health happen:


  • Own and deliver the IT systems strategy across UK Insurance (UKI) and contribute to the overall success of the Digital, change and Technology function.
  • Drive key engineering initiatives such as DevOps/ SecDevOps, automation, standardised tooling, and common metrics/monitoring capabilities to reduce delivery time and cost.
  • Simplify and modernise UKI technology by consolidating and decommissioning legacy systems, modernising core insurance systems, and driving cloud migration and adoption.
  • Implementing best-in-class design and reliability engineering principles to improve and maintain the highest levels of availability, performance and resilience.
  • Rationalise and standardise our technology landscape to drive down unit cost and minimize operational risk.
  • Deliver IT change to quality, time, and budget, and in line with Bupa enterprise architecture, technology standards, and the UKI transformation agenda.
  • Deliver systems and solutions that create competitive advantage, and excellence in customer management and health partner leadership.
  • Lead and develop IT delivery function across UKI locations, ensuring key skills and knowledge are maintained in-house.
  • Budget management responsibility for BAU related activities and planning of new initiatives.

What you'll bring


  • A proven track record of leading high-performing Engineering and Delivery Teams for a large complex organisation, ideally in Financial Services or Insurance.
  • First-hand infrastructure and operations delivery experience gained through several implementation and support roles.
  • Experience of managing a technology function at a senior level within an international environment.
  • The ability to understand business topics and present solutions from a business perspective rather than IT.
  • Good communication and influencing skills with the ability to build and strengthen relationships within the business at all levels.
  • An interest in monitoring market trends and the ability to identify future technology capabilities that will drive operational efficiency and deliver excellent customer experiences.
  • Proven track record in delivering against budget.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:


  • 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
  • Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
  • An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
  • Annual performance-based bonus
  • Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
  • Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

IT

Locations:

Staines - Willow House

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