Director, Delivery Lead

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Everest is hiring a Director Delivery Lead to drive high-impact London Market technology delivery for Everest Global Markets across underwriting workflow market platform integrations pricing policy administration data reporting and regulatory change.

This is a hands-on role for someone who can turn business priorities into clear delivery plans keep teams focused and give senior stakeholders transparent decision-ready visibility of progress risk budget and value.

The ideal candidate will bring strong software engineering experience agile delivery discipline London Market awareness excellent stakeholder management and the confidence to operate across business technology vendor and global delivery teams.

• Own a portfolio platforms and applications and ensure the smooth delivery of London Market technology initiatives from planning through implementation and transition to BAU.
• Ensure that Solution Architecture for changes can be successfully implemented by platform engineering teams.
• Own delivery plans milestones dependencies risks budgets resources and governance.
• Run agile hybrid or waterfall delivery approaches based on the needs of the initiative.
• Partner with Product Owners and business stakeholders to shape priorities manage backlogs and link delivery to OKRs and measurable business value.
• Prepare crisp senior-level reporting including RAG status SteerCo packs delivery dashboards financial summaries risks issues and decisions required.
• Identify and resolve risks issues impediments and cross-team dependencies before they impact delivery.
• Coordinate delivery across business engineering QA architecture data operations vendors and global delivery teams.
• Use delivery metrics and KPIs to improve transparency predictability team performance and continuous improvement.
• Ensure delivery aligns with enterprise technology standards architecture governance information security regulatory expectations and operational readiness.
• Champion and innovate opportunities to leverage AI to accelerate delivery speed and quality across the Software Delivery Lifecycle.

• Strong software engineering experience across platforms in the London Market such as SEND IRIS Guidewire Policy Centre as well as experience in bespoke software engineering using languages and platforms such as Azure etc.
• Strong proven delivery capability across complex technology change including scope schedule cost quality risk dependency and stakeholder management.
• Deep understanding of London Market insurance specialty insurance Lloyds delegated authority or broader commercial insurance processes.
• Experience with underwriting workflow placement platforms quote-to-bind policy administration bordereaux bureau processes downstream reporting or regulatory change.
• Confident applying agile lean hybrid and traditional project delivery models in the right context.
• Hands-on experience with Jira Confluence Tempo PPM and delivery reporting dashboards.
• Strong facilitation coaching negotiation and consensus-building skills.
• Ability to influence senior business and technology leaders and drive clear decisions.
• Clear concise communicator who can simplify complex delivery topics for executive business and technical audiences.
• Data-led mindset with the ability to use metrics to improve delivery performance and predictability.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities distributed teams and shifting demands.
• Strategic enough to see the bigger picture and hands-on enough to unblock delivery.

• Extensive experience in Software Engineering and managing portfolios of change on a set of platforms is essential.
• Proven track record delivering complex technology change in insurance financial services or regulated environments.
• London Market Lloyds and specialty insurance experience is essential.
• Experience of implementing Underwriting Workbench platforms for the London Market and integrations with Whitespace and PPL are essential.
• Experience in enabling teams to use AI throughout the Software Delivery Lifecycle to increase productivity is essential.
• Experience managing vendors contractors distributed teams and global delivery models.
• Technical qualifications (such as TOGAF Azure) other qualifications (such as Agile Scrum SAFe PMP or PRINCE2) or a degree in computer science/IT is advantageous but not essential.

• Clear plans strong governance effective communications and confident senior stakeholder engagement.
• Focused teams fast issue resolution and sustained delivery momentum.
• Transparent reporting on progress risk budget priorities and decisions.
• Delivery outcomes that are aligned to Everest Global Markets business priorities regulatory expectations and enterprise technology standards.

What if I dont meet every requirement At Everest we are dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace. So if you are excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every element in the job description we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Please let us know if you need any accommodations throughout the application or interview process.

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