Senior Life Actuary

Alpha FMC

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (Alpha) is a leading global consultancy to the financial services industry. We are a boutique management consulting firm that offers the world’s top industry players a competitive edge through our expertise and industry insight. Our team is of a uniquely high calibre and by focusing across the General Insurance & Specialty value chain, we build deep knowledge and experience within our industry. We have our headquarters located the United Kingdom, as well as offices in major global financial centres across the United States, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Asia. The Insurance team works with industry leading carriers, brokers, market bodies, ancillary businesses, and technology providers to position our clients for future success. We have a fast growing team of dedicated consultants with deep experience from working both within the industry and consulting. Successful candidates should expect a diverse range of complex and strategic engagements across the market. As we continue to expand our client base and expertise, we are looking for individuals to join our team to support our growth journey. Please see below an outline of the responsibilities of the role as well as the requirements. ROLE OVERVIEW   We are seeking an exceptional Application & Software Engineering Lead with deep Insurance domain expertise to drive the design, delivery, and evolution of our core technology platforms. This is a high-impact leadership role sitting at the intersection of engineering excellence and insurance business capability, responsible for leading cross-functional engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and compliant software solutions. You will act as a trusted technology partner to the world’s largest insurance firms, translating complex insurance workflows — spanning policy administration, underwriting, claims, and regulatory compliance — into robust, modern application architectures. You will set the technical vision, champion engineering best practices, and cultivate a high-performing team culture.   KEY RESPONSIBILITIES   ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP * Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers, architects, and analysts across multiple squads. * Define and uphold engineering standards, coding practices, and quality frameworks across the function. * Drive a culture of continuous improvement, psychological safety, and technical craftsmanship. * Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations with direct reports. * Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Product Owners, and Delivery Leads to ensure aligned, outcome-driven delivery. APPLICATION STRATEGY & ARCHITECTURE * Own the application roadmap for core insurance platforms, including policy management, claims, underwriting, and distribution systems. * Design and govern scalable, event-driven, cloud-native architectures appropriate for the insurance technology landscape. * Lead technical design reviews, architecture decision records (ADRs), and proof-of-concept evaluations. * Assess and manage technical debt; prioritise remediation in balance with feature delivery. * Evaluate and recommend third-party insurance software (e.g. Guidewire, Duck Creek, Majesco) and integration patterns. INSURANCE DOMAIN DELIVERY * Apply specialist knowledge of insurance business processes to shape technical solutions that meet regulatory and operational requirements. * Oversee delivery of insurance-specific capabilities: policy lifecycle management, claims handling, bordereaux processing, reinsurance ceding, and premium calculation engines. * Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations including Solvency II, FCA requirements, market standards, and GDPR. * Act as a subject matter expert (SME) bridging business stakeholders and engineering teams on insurance domain requirements. DELIVERY & EXECUTION * Own end-to-end software delivery for one or more product areas; accountable for quality, timeliness, and technical integrity. * Champion Agile and DevSecOps practices; contribute to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release governance. * Define and track engineering KPIs including lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR, and defect escape rate. * Manage stakeholder expectations and provide transparent reporting on engineering progress and risk. STAKEHOLDER & VENDOR ENGAGEMENT * Partner with Product, Actuarial, Risk, Compliance, and Operations teams to understand and shape business requirements. * Manage relationships with technology vendors and insurance software providers; lead procurement and contract negotiations where required. * Represent the engineering function in senior leadership forums, architecture boards, and client-facing engagements.   SKILLS & EXPERIENCE   ESSENTIAL * Significant experience (7+ years) in software engineering. * Demonstrable insurance domain expertise across one or more of: Specialty, London Market / Lloyds, or Reinsurance. * Strong command of modern application development: microservices, API-first design, event-driven architecture, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP). * Proven ability to lead distributed engineering teams delivering in an Agile/SAFe environment. * Deep understanding of insurance data models, regulatory frameworks (FCA, PRA, Solvency II), and compliance requirements. * Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences, including C-suite stakeholders. HIGHLY DESIRABLE * Consulting experience. * Background in data engineering or analytics within an insurance context (e.g. actuarial data platforms, claims analytics). * Experience delivering large-scale digital transformation or legacy modernisation programmes in insurance. * Relevant certifications: AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, TOGAF, or equivalent. * Exposure to AI/ML applications in insurance (e.g. fraud detection, underwriting automation, NLP for claims). TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES * Languages & Frameworks: Java, Python, .NET, or similar enterprise-grade stack; REST and GraphQL APIs. * Cloud & Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins). * Data & Integration: Kafka / event streaming, enterprise integration patterns, EDI/ACORD XML or JSON standards. * Security & Compliance: OWASP practices, data privacy engineering, secure SDLC.   WHAT WE OFFER   * Competitive base salary benchmarked to senior tech consulting market rates. * Annual performance bonus tied to individual and company outcomes. * Comprehensive benefits package including private medical insurance, life assurance, and income protection. * Hybrid working model with flexible arrangements to support work-life balance. * Generous pension scheme with enhanced employer contributions. * Continuous learning budget and access to industry conferences, certifications, and training programmes. * 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with option to buy additional days. * Employee assistance programme and wellbeing support.

Causaly

About us: Causaly is redefining how humans acquire knowledge and develop insights in biomedicine. Our AI-powered platform enables researchers and decision-makers to discover and interpret evidence from millions of scientific publications, clinical trials, regulatory documents, and other complex data sources in minutes. We are building the world’s most advanced biomedical knowledge platform, powered by a high-precision Knowledge Graph and GenAI capabilities. Our technology is already used by leading biopharmaceutical organizations to accelerate drug discovery, improve safety, and drive better decision-making. Backed by top-tier investors including ICONIQ, Index Ventures, Pentech, and Marathon, we are scaling rapidly and expanding our product suite and market presence.  About the role Causaly helps life sciences organisations make faster, better-informed R&D decisions by combining scientific depth with AI-powered evidence discovery. As our customers expand theway they use Causaly, we need a senior leader who can connect scientific value, executive priorities, and enterprise decision-making. The Life Science Strategy Director will lead our pre-sales advisory model for strategic accounts. This role sits at the intersection of science, consulting, and commercial strategy. You will help customers understand where Causaly can create measurable value, shape the strategic narrative for senior stakeholders, and build the operating model that allows our Scientific Solutions Consultants and strategic value advisory capability to execute consistently. This is a player-coach role. In the initial phase, you will personally support selected strategic opportunities as a strategic value advisor, helping Strategic Client Partners develop the executive case, ROI logic, and “why change, why now, why Causaly” narrative. Over time, you will build the standards, coaching, and governance needed to scale this capability across regions. This is not a quota-carrying sales role. The Strategic Client Partner owns the commercial relationship and opportunity progression. The Life Science Strategy Director owns the quality of the scientific and strategic advisory support that helps customers make confident decisions. What you’ll own * Lead the pre-sales advisory model across Scientific Solutions Consultants and strategic value advisory support, ensuring the right expertise is applied to the right customer situation. * Build repeatable standards for executive value narratives, ROI frameworks, scientific workflow discovery, and business case development. * Partner with Strategic Client Partners to translate user-level scientific value into senior stakeholder priorities such as research productivity, decision quality, portfolio confidence, speed, and risk reduction. * Coach SSCs and future strategic value advisors on how to move from product demonstration to consultative problem-solving and strategic value articulation. * Personally act as a strategic value advisor on selected strategic opportunities during the initial phase, supporting executive conversations, business case development, and senior stakeholder alignment. * Establish a clear operating cadence with Sales leadership, including prioritisation, strategic opportunity reviews, quality reviews, and feedback loops. * Capture patterns from customer conversations and translate them into stronger pre- sales playbooks, enablement, and executive-facing assets. * Define practical measures of success for the advisory model, including quality of business cases, strength of executive engagement, conversion from user interest to senior stakeholder sponsorship, and consistency of pre-sales execution. What we’re looking for * Significant experience in life sciences consulting, strategy consulting, commercial strategy, value advisory, solution consulting, or a related strategic customer-facing role. * Strong understanding of how large pharma and biotech organisations evaluate enterprise solutions, including stakeholder mapping, budget approval, executive sponsorship, and business case development. * Ability to translate complex scientific workflows into clear business implications for senior leaders. * Credibility with scientific users and confidence in executive-level conversations with senior life sciences stakeholders. * Experience building structured narratives, value propositions, operating models, business cases, or transformation recommendations for sophisticated customers. * Strong coaching capability, with the ability to help others improve discovery, storytelling, problem framing, and stakeholder influence. * Comfortable operating hands-on in high-priority customer situations while also building scalable processes, standards, and team capability. * Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to pressure-test assumptions, simplify complexity, and create materials that influence decision-making. Ideal background This role may be a strong fit for someone who has worked in life sciences consulting, strategy consulting, professional services, value advisory, solution consulting, or strategic customer advisory roles. We are particularly interested in candidates who have helped senior life sciences stakeholders make decisions about complex scientific, digital, data, or AI-enabled solutions. Experience in sales or pre-sales can be valuable, but the role is not designed as a traditional sales leadership position. The strongest candidates will bring a consulting mindset: structured problem-solving, executive communication, commercial judgement, and the ability to connect scientific detail to organisational value. Reporting and structure The Life Science Strategy Director reports to the SVP of Sales and Partnerships. The role works closely with Strategic Client Partners, who own the commercial relationship, and partners across Causaly to ensure customers receive the right scientific, strategic, and technical expertise during complex evaluations. The Life Science Strategy Director directly leads the pre-sales support model across SSCs and strategic value advisory capability. The role does not manage Sales; it partners with Sales to strengthen the quality of strategic customer engagement. Why this role matters Life sciences organisations do not buy complex scientific technology on product capability alone. Users need to believe the platform improves their work, and senior stakeholders need to understand why the investment matters for the organisation. This role exists to bridge those two worlds. The Life Science Strategy Director will help Causaly turn scientific credibility into executive conviction, build a repeatable advisory model, and strengthen how we support strategic customers through complex buying decisions. Benefits UK: 💰 Competitive compensation package 🩺 Private medical insurance 🦷 Private dental insurance 📔 Life insurance (4 x salary) 🤓 Personal development budget 🧘 Individual wellbeing budget 🌴 25 days holiday plus bank holidays 🥳 Your birthday off! 🚀 Potential to have real impact and accelerated career growth as a member of an international team that's building a transformative AI product. We are on a mission to accelerate scientific breakthroughs for ALL humankind, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and fairly consider qualified candidates without regard to race, ethnic or national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, genetics, age, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, domestic / family status, veteran status or any other difference.

Baringa

ABOUT BARINGA  Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation. Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors. Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms. OUR INSURANCE PRACTICE ARE LOOKING FOR AN EXPERIENCED CONSULTANTS TO JOIN THE TEAM.  Our Insurance practice are looking for an experienced Senior Managers to join the team with specialisms across Life & Pensions.  Our Insurance practice works with the leading Insurers, Asset Managers and Distributors across strategic advisory projects right through to business and technical change delivery. We are at the cutting edge of the industry and the wider ecosystem, helping our clients improve their profitability, navigate regulatory change and implement new technology solutions.   WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING * Lead complex transformation programmes for Life & Pensions clients, from mobilisation through to delivery * Deliver large-scale business and technology change across core Life & Pensions domains including policy administration, propositions, distribution, servicing and operations. * Provide senior day-to-day leadership, leading programme teams and client stakeholders to deliver outcomes at pace and with quality. * Shape and oversee technology-enabled transformation, including target operating model design, process redesign, platform implementation and business change. * Build strong, trusted relationships with client sponsors and senior stakeholders, acting as a go-to advisor on delivery and transformation challenges. * Support the growth of our Life & Pensions practice through business development, proposition development and account growth. * Identify opportunities with existing and new clients, helping turn market demand into tangible consulting opportunities. * Lead, coach and develop teams, creating an inclusive and high-performing environment. * Contribute to thought leadership, internal capability building and the continued expansion of our Life & Pensions offering. YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE * You will have strong experience working in the Life & Pensions market, with a good understanding of sector dynamics, product structures (e.g. annuities, pensions, protection), value chains and key transformation priorities. * You will have delivered large transformation programmes in a consulting, insurer, pension provider or major outsourcing environment. * You will have experience delivering across Life & Pensions organisations including pension providers, third-party administrators and outsourcing partners. * You will have experience leading technology-enabled change, including delivery of policy administration platforms, digital servicing solutions or regulatory-driven programmes. * You will have experience leading technology transformation and migration programmes, including platform modernisation, legacy policy administration system replacement and large-scale data migrations. * You will have experience delivering transformation in key growth areas such as bulk annuities (BPA), pension risk transfer, pension dashboards, SIPP/platform modernisation or administration consolidation. * You will have a track record of leading teams and managing senior stakeholders across complex delivery environments. * You will have experience turning strategy into practical delivery and be comfortable operating across both business and technology agendas. * You will have experience supporting sales, account growth and practice development, including shaping proposals and contributing to win activity. * You will bring strong leadership, communication and problem-solving skills, with the credibility to influence at senior levels. * You will be someone who enjoys building teams, developing people and helping grow a successful practice. * Experience of core Life & Pensions platforms (e.g. policy administration systems) is desirable. WHAT A CAREER AT BARINGA WILL GIVE YOU PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST. BARINGA IS A PEOPLE FIRST COMPANY AND WELLBEING IS AT THE FOREFRONT OF OUR CULTURE. WE RECOGNISE THE IMPORTANCE OF WORK-LIFE BALANCE AND FLEXIBLE WORKING AND PROVIDE OUR STAFF AMAZING BENEFITS. SOME OF THESE BENEFITS INCLUDE:  * Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.  * Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.  * Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.  * Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.  * Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.  DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.  AN AWARD-WINNING WORKPLACE You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.  USING BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD.  We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.  We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have. JOIN US All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.   BARINGA PRIVACY NOTICES For UK & EU Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our UK Recruitment Privacy Notice / EU Recruitment Privacy Notice, to evaluate your application and meet our legal and reporting obligations. In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request access to, rectification, or erasure (subject to legal limitations) of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at privacy@baringa.com For the USA Your personal data may be retained by Baringa for up to two years, as outlined in our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to support the recruitment process and internal reporting requirements. Where applicable, and in accordance with relevant federal and state laws, you may have the right to request access to or correction of your personal information. For further details, please contact privacy@baringa.com For Australia & Singapore Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to assess your application and meet applicable reporting and legal obligations. In line with the Australian Privacy Act and Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), you may have rights to access, correct, or request limited deletion of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at privacy@baringa.com