.Reporting to: Chief Technology Officer – Group FunctionsLocation: LisbonType: PermanentBand: IIICompany Description: Hiscox is a diversified international insurance group with a powerful brand, strong balance sheet, and plenty of room to grow. Listed on the London Stock Exchange and headquartered in Bermuda, Hiscox has over 3,000 staff across 14 countries and 34 offices.The Team: The Technology function is led by a CIO who manages a team of around 400 IT professionals in Europe and the US. Reporting to the CIO are 8 CTO's responsible for Group functions and various business units. This role forms part of the Group Enterprise Services (GES) Leadership Team, led by the CTO for GES, who are accountable for the full life cycle of around 140 applications. The Head of Platform Engineering will report directly to the CTO for GES.The Role: Hiscox is hiring a Head of Platform Engineering to help shape and transition Hiscox Group functions and business units into an Agile value stream based operating model. The role spans the entire GES portfolio and includes all business applications within the Platform Engineering team, which encompasses our DevOps capabilities, integration platforms, digital layers, and more. This is a new capability intended to offer DevOps capabilities for applications used in Group, as well as operating and maintaining centralized services and platforms used by various Business Units.As a key member of the GES leadership team, the Head of Platform Engineering will define and align the technology roadmaps for the Platform Engineering function as we build out this new capability in the center. The team includes numerous engineering teams, starting first with a DevOps team and expanding capabilities as the landscape of centralized services grows.Key Responsibilities:Collaborate with Technology leadership teams in other BUs to set and drive outcomes for centralized services, ensuring they support group technology goals to simplify, protect and enable the business.Provide effective and proactive support and expertise to programs and projects, creating innovative and actionable plans, and optimizing solution delivery.Interpret and contextualize business requirements into actionable technology roadmaps with well-defined benefits and cost requirements.In conjunction with the Head of Architecture, develop and execute product strategies aligned with Hiscox's overall goals and objectives to ensure consistency and quality of solutions.Support the end-to-end product development process, including ideation, requirements gathering, prioritization, and roadmap creation.Lead, advocate, and drive adoption of best practices to ensure standardization of outputs across the core function value streams.Support the planning and execution of new product/feature launches, ensuring effective messaging, scheduling, and monitoring of metrics to drive improvements and satisfaction