Principal Engineer
UK-wide | Health & Commercial Insurance
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to play a critical leadership role across our clients technology landscape, with influence across the wider UK business. This is a senior, strategic engineering role within one of the world’s largest insurers, operating in a highly complex, modern technology environment and at the heart of a major digital and AI transformation.
Significant investment is being made across our clients Retail Health and Commercial Lines of Business, combining shared enterprise platforms with health-specific capabilities. You will be comfortable working in large-scale architectures, shaping technical direction, and leading engineering excellence at scale.
The Role
As a Principal Engineer, you will balance hands-on technical leadership with people and organisational leadership, operating across multiple product teams.
- Engineering Excellence & Delivery
- Act as a senior technical authority across 1-2 product areas, spanning 7-20 engineers depending on the domain.
- Work closely with Product Owners, Architects and Engineering Leads to deliver complex capabilities such as claims and broker platforms.
- Ensure the “big things are done right” guiding teams back on track when solutions move outside agreed principles or architectural guardrails.
- Set clear expectations with stakeholders and ensure the right tools, patterns and engineering practices are consistently applied.
- Operate across Salesforce, Azure and .NET, working within large, distributed architectures with multiple data flows and sources of truth.
- Promote safe, high-quality delivery across .NET and Azure, while supporting teams to deepen their Salesforce capability.
- Champion strong engineering principles across both functional and non-functional requirements.
- People & Team Leadership
- Lead 1-5 Lead Engineers, with responsibility for the wider engineering teams they support.
- Uplift capability across teams, creating growth opportunities and high-performing engineering cultures.
- Take ownership of underperforming teams and drive improvement through coaching, structure and clarity.
- Be a visible, trusted leader who invests in people development.
- Engineering Leadership & Strategy
- Be a key member of the Engineering Leadership Team, shaping the overall engineering roadmap for the business.
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering capability, delivery maturity and ways of working.
- Lead change initiatives within budget and delivery targets.
- Manage complex stakeholder relationships across group and local entities, representing technical work clearly back into delivery teams.
- Facilitate planning and alignment sessions across multiple business departments.
- Large-Scale Architecture Collaboration
- Operate effectively within large, complex enterprise architectures.
- Work simultaneously with multiple technology specialists across platforms, data, security and architecture.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong background in Financial Services, specifically Insurance or Banking (this is mandatory).
- Senior engineering leadership experience in complex, enterprise-scale environments.
- Deep experience across Azure and .NET, with strong architectural understanding.
- Proven ability to lead senior engineers and influence technical direction at scale.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills across business and technology audiences.
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