Head of Environment Engineering

Job Description

Who are we?

Ki is the biggest global insurance tech company you’ve never heard of, unless you’ve been looking to insure a satellite, wind farm or music festival recently.

Having written over $877m in gross written premium in 2023, we’ve achieved significant growth since our beginnings in 2021. Our investors were excited about the fact we were revolutionising the way a 333 year-old industry was working. There are hardly any industries left that are mainly paper based, but the Casualty Treaty insurance market is one. Together with partners at Google and UCL we developed Ki and created a platform that helps insurance brokers place risk in a fast and frictionless way. We’re continuing to lead the charge on the digitisation of this market and we need more excellent minds to work with us to realise this goal and create more opportunities.

What you will be working on

How insurance is underwritten here hasn't changed in 300 years – until now. At Ki, we are genuinely solving problems that haven’t been solved with technology in the insurance space. We are building the first fully digital and data-led insurance platform in the London Market. Ki is used by the world’s leading insurance brokers to provide cover for their clients against some of the planet’s biggest risks. We are the first movers in this space. Think challenger bank, but for complex risks like hurricanes and natural disasters.

Having reached c.$1bn of Gross Written Premium in the first three years of trading, and becoming a Top 20 Lloyd’s of London syndicate, Ki is launching a Technology Services function and Transformation Programme to enhance our technological capabilities and streamline processes. The programme will transform Ki’s internal-facing technology services across all business functions, including Actuarial & Risk, Underwriting & Distribution, Finance, HR, Legal, Operations, Claims and IT.

We seek a forward-thinking and proven leader to support our engineering teams by establishing automated, self-servicing infrastructure to allow them to excel in our digital journey whilst ensuring the environments are secure and well managed. With deep Technology Operations and Cloud Engineering expertise, primarily in GCP, you will also support the Technology Transformation Programme, setting up the Environmental Engineering function from a blank sheet of paper.

As the Head of Environment Engineering, you will be responsible for setting the strategic direction and overseeing the efficient and effective delivery of technology services across the organisation. This role will involve managing vendor relationships, ensuring high-quality customer support, optimising GCP (Primary)/Azure and database operations, and providing leadership to the Environmental Engineering team. The successful candidate will collaborate with senior stakeholders, align technology operations with business needs, and drive innovation to support the company's growth and success.

Reporting into Ki’s Technical Services Director, the Head of Environment Engineering will be a Technology Senior Leadership team member.

Our culture

Inclusion & Diversity is at the heart of our business at Ki. We recognise that diversity in age, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical ability, thought and social background bring richness to our working environment. No matter who you are, where you’re from, how you think, or who you love, we believe you should be you.

You’ll get a highly competitive remuneration and benefits package. This is kept under constant review to make sure it stays relevant. We understand the power of saying thank you and take time to acknowledge and reward extraordinary effort by teams or individuals.

If this sounds like a role and a culture that appeals to you, let us know.