Risk Allocator Senior Developer

Fidelis
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

.NET
API
Agile Methodologies
Azure
Data Integrity
Software Engineering
Systems Architecture
Blazor
Cosmos DB

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to play a key role in building and evolving our Risk Allocation platform, a core decision engine that determines how insurance risk is allocated across capital providers, syndicates, and strategies.

This is a high-impact role working on complex decision logic, data integrity, and system behaviour under real-world constraints. You will partner closely with Product, Development, Underwriting, and Actuarial to translate underwriting intent and business rules into robust, testable, and transparent software.

This is not a feature-factory role. You will be expected to shape solutions, challenge assumptions, and design for correctness, auditability, and change., * Design, build, and maintain the risk allocation engine, including rule evaluation, sequencing, thresholds, and constraints

  • Implement deterministic, auditable decision logic that reflects underwriting and capital rules
  • Ensure correctness across new business and renewal scenarios, including edge cases
  • Write high-quality, well-tested code
  • Contribute to system architecture decisions
  • Design APIs and services that are easy to reason about and evolve
  • Work closely with Product to shape rules, scenarios, and acceptance criteria
  • Provide clear technical input into trade-offs, risks, and sequencing
  • Support the engineering team and the product director during scoping, design and implementation of new systems, including estimation of projects and tasks
  • Work closely with other technology teams (internal and external), tech architects and business owners to refine requirements and translate business needs into IT solutions
  • Ensure there is an approach of continuous improvement and implementation of best practice
  • Create a supportive and rewarding working environment that aligns with the company culture as well as instilling a sense of ownership, accountability and technical excellence in the engineering team
  • Deliver long term technology effectiveness, simplicity of solutions and appropriate controls
  • Develop a thorough understanding of our industry and our products and services, * Insofar as possible, we aim to ensure the composition of our workforce reflects the make-up of the local community
  • We have specific programmes in all our offices to support diversity within the hiring process, e.g. internship and scholarship award programmes
  • This is a particular focus in Bermuda, where we engage actively with local organisations to source diverse talent and provide coaching/mentoring for underrepresented groups
  • We aim to maintain a focus on equal opportunities across all stages of hiring process
  • We measure and minimise the pay gap where possible.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Time management?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * University Degree in Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field

  • Demonstrated experience working in the (re)insurance domain, with a strong understanding of insurance fundamentals; exposure to reinsurance structures and actuarial concepts is desirable
  • Led a system from initial build through ongoing operation, including architectural decisions, maintaining, evolving, and improving it in response to real-world usage
  • Experience with Azure, Azure Cosmos DB, .NET (ideally versions 9 & 10), .NET Blazor
  • Demonstrated ability to grasp complex mathematical concepts; numerical methods, linear algebra, statistics, algorithms
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile development team environment
  • Strong customer-oriented mindset and ability to develop and maintain stakeholder relationships
  • Strong motivational and people skills, helping team members to excel in a culture of collaboration and openness
  • Excellent organisation and time-management skills, with demonstrated ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced enterprise level environment
  • Strong communication skills, both oral and written, with proven ability to influence change
  • Ability to run and manage change processes efficiently, aligning with other teams as needed
  • Always maintain a high bar of quality; take pride in doing work well to high standards
  • Drive and support innovation in a pragmatic and effective way to meet the business' needs
  • Ability to follow and improve process, and improve your skillsets on an on-going basis
  • Supporting and building a team culture of security, innovation, efficiency, accountability and initiative, with a focus on process simplification and outcome delivery
  • Strong leadership skills, an innovation mindset and experience as a proactive team player
  • Take ownership of your work and responsibility for outcomes
  • Work closely with technical leadership and peers to create product roadmaps, estimate work packages and set priorities

About the company

The Fidelis Partnership is a leading privately-owned, Bermuda-based Managing General Underwriter, which, through its subsidiaries, is a global underwriter of property, bespoke and specialty insurance and reinsurance products. The Fidelis Partnership is one of the largest Managing General Underwriters globally and its operations also include outwards reinsurance, claims handling, exposure management and portfolio analytics. The Fidelis Partnership also sponsors and incubates specialist MGAs through its Pine Walk platform. The Fidelis Partnership is separately owned and managed from the ownership and management of Fidelis Insurance Group. Across product lines and geographies, we focus on three diversified pillars: reinsurance, specialty and bespoke solutions. We are truly diversified. Our long-standing partnerships with capital providers and quota share partners make us nimble. Our breadth of expertise and capabilities deliver outstanding market returns., At The Fidelis Partnership, we aim to be different while making a difference. * We set the standard for quality in our industry. Guided by our expertise, our clients can take unique and material risks with confidence. * Our approach is tailored and designed to deliver excellence for our clients. We are trailblazers, creating unique solutions in the (re)insurance space. * We are experts. Our brokers and clients value the depth of our knowledge and experience. We leverage state-of-the-art underwriting technology to be a market leader. * We believe sound ethics make for good business. We deliver value for our customers, investors and communities while actively avoid trading with industries that cause harm to people, the environment and animals. * We pride ourselves in creating a workplace that prizes execution, meritocracy, Diversity & Inclusion. Our people herald from countless backgrounds and are united by ambition and the unabashed desire to deliver excellence every day. We provide a competitive environment that helps people cultivate themselves professionally and personally and balance a rigorous workplace with a mindset that prioritises environmental and charitable activities in our communities worldwide. Our ethos dictates our decisions and actions. It unites us as a team of experts and colleagues and provides us with a compass for ensuring we deliver our best to every stakeholder we serve.

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