Lead Engineer

Company: Jobtailor
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Location: London
Job Description:

  • Lead the configuration of insurance products, rating algorithms, underwriting rules, referral rules, eligibility rules, authority checks, and workflow logic within Rulebook.
  • Convert Excel-based pricing models into Rulebook-compatible configuration components, ensuring calculation accuracy and business alignment.
  • Configure rating tables, factors, modifiers, risk attributes, premium calculations, validations, and business rules.
  • Configure and maintain Rulebook pages, page flows, page linking, product structures, and user journeys.
  • Support document generation logic, quote outputs, pricing worksheets, and downstream data outputs where applicable.
  • Ensure reusable configuration patterns are applied across products/classes to improve maintainability and consistency.
  • Work with underwriters, actuaries, operations SMEs, and product owners to understand pricing intent, risk appetite, referral logic, and underwriting guidelines.
  • Challenge and clarify ambiguous business rules before configuration.
  • Translate business requirements into clear configuration specifications and implementation-ready artefacts.
  • Identify gaps, inconsistencies, or risks in pricing spreadsheets, underwriting guides, or product documentation.
  • Support impact analysis for pricing changes, product enhancements, and model version updates.
  • Act as a primary configuration lead in workshops with senior London-based business stakeholders.
  • Explain configuration design, rule logic, testing outcomes, issues, and trade-offs in clear business language.
  • Facilitate discussions between business SMEs, actuaries, developers, testers, architects, and delivery leads.
  • Provide structured status updates, risk/issue summaries, and decision points to project leadership.
  • Ensure business stakeholders understand how configured rules reflect their underwriting and pricing requirements.
  • Define and execute rule configuration testing, scenario testing, regression testing, and spreadsheet-to-Rulebook reconciliation.
  • Validate Rulebook outputs against source Excel models, expected pricing outcomes, underwriting rules, and edge-case scenarios.
  • Support SIT, UAT, defect triage, root-cause analysis, and defect resolution.
  • Maintain configuration documentation, traceability, version control, and audit evidence.
  • Ensure configurations support governance, auditability, and controlled deployment of pricing/underwriting changes.

Requirements

  • Strong Rulebook configuration mindset: ability to translate business rules into structured configuration.
  • Strong Excel skills, including ability to understand complex formulas, rating sheets, lookup tables, factors, and calculation flows.
  • Good understanding of XML and structured configuration files.
  • Ability to understand rule hierarchies, conditional logic, validations, decision trees, and calculation dependencies.
  • Experience with configuration testing, regression testing, and price-output reconciliation.
  • Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar delivery tools.
  • Ability to document configuration logic clearly.
  • Understanding of APIs, JSON, SQL, or data mapping (desirable).
  • Exposure to rating services, quote/bind platforms, broker portals, or delegated authority platforms (desirable).
  • Experience with document production, workflow configuration, or downstream integration (desirable).

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Posted: July 11th, 2026