.Job Type: Permanent Build a brilliant future with Hiscox Position: Head of Platform Engineering Reporting to: Chief Technology Officer – Group Functions Location: Lisbon Type: Permanent Band: III Company 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 (with the bulk of group leadership sitting in London), 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, our 5 business units, Enterprise Architecture, and our IT Services team. 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 into 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 as well as centralised services used by the business units and sits as a direct report to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Group Enterprise Systems (GES). The remit includes all business applications within the Platform Engineering team, which includes our DevOps capabilities, integration platforms, digital layers, and more as we grow this core capability. This is a new capability intended to offer DevOps capabilities for those applications used in Group, as well as operating and maintaining centralized services and platforms that are used by the various Business Units. As a key member of the GES leadership team, the Head of Platform Engineering will be responsible for defining and aligning the technology roadmaps for the Platform Engineering function as we build out this new capability in the centre. The team includes numerous engineering teams, starting first with a DevOps team and expanding the capabilities as the landscape of centralised services grows. Key Responsibilities Collaborate with Technology leadership teams in other BUs in setting and driving the outcomes for centralised services to ensure they support the group technology goals to Simplify, Protect and Enable the business. Providing effective and proactive support and expertise to programmes and projects, creating innovative and actionable plans, and optimising solution delivery. Interpret and contextualise 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