Director, Delivery Lead at Everest in London

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Title: Director, Delivery Lead Company: Everest Advisors (Uk), Ltd. Job Category: Technology Job Description: About the Role 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. Key Responsibilities 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. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities 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 Java, .Net, 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, Lloyd’s, 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. Professional Experience and Qualifications Extensive experience in Software Engineering and managing portfolios of change on a set of platforms is essential. Proven track record delivering complex technolog