Lead Product Engineer Architect

Company Information

Curinos empowers financial institutions to put customers at the center of every decision. Our AI-first platform transforms proprietary data advanced analytics and deep financial services expertise into timely recommendations - delivered right where teams work. The result: confident decisions stronger customer relationships and lasting profitable growth.

Curinos operates under a hybrid modality and has office locations in New York Chicago Boston Toronto and London. This role is open to hybrid candidates based in the UK and able to travel as needed to our London HUB one day a week.

Curinos eBenchmarkers is the canonical provider of benchmark data on the decisions that govern insurer profitability pricing acquisition renewal and retention across the UK personal lines insurance market. Our proprietary end-to-end behavioural data cannot be replicated by any individual insurer from their own book and it underpins trusted relationships with senior commercial decision-makers at every major UK insurer.

Job Description

This is the first senior engineering hire of a deliberate platform-led transformation: moving Curinos eBenchmarkers from expert-led manually produced benchmark reporting to a governed Databricks Lakehouse platform capable of supporting AI-first decision intelligence.

The role has a clear arc. You will first lead the migration of our benchmark production onto Databricks owning solution design migration execution platform governance and engineering standards for UK Insurance. You will then build on that foundation: turning deep domain expertise into reusable tested data products and going on to develop the product tooling that makes the platform strategy real.

Architect first product builder second both matter and the sequence is deliberate.

You will sit embedded within the UK Insurance business reporting to the Head of Insurance EMEA and working directly with business leadership product delivery and analysts to understand the commercial purpose behind what you build. You will serve UK business priorities working to standards set centrally by our North American Databricks platform architects coordinating with them on enterprise governance security and CI/CD while delivery ownership sits with you locally.

Everything you build will meet UK regulatory requirements including UK GDPR and data residency expectations.

Our benchmark stack shares a legacy architecture with the wider business and the underlying platform is being upgraded in parallel; you will coordinate on the shared foundation while owning the Insurance-specific layer above it.

Responsibilities

Embedded execution central technical governance. You will sit inside UK Insurance working with the business lead product delivery business operations analytics and domain experts alongside a mid-level engineering capability you will mentor. You will operate within central Engineerings standards for architecture code review governance and platform alignment executing on those standards according to the businesss priorities. The intention is genuine ownership of the UK Insurance technical agenda with the support and standards of a wider engineering organisation behind you.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead the migration of legacy SQL solutions into Databricks Jobs Workflows and PySpark/SQL pipelines maintaining operational SLAs throughout
• Define the target-state data architecture Lakehouse Medallion and domain-oriented data product patterns to support reporting analytics and future AI/ML use cases
• Work with product business leadership and analysts to codify canonical metric logic the standard definitions for renewal new business pricing and retention replacing spreadsheet calculations with documented testable code
• Build automated QA and reconciliation between legacy and new outputs and the observability that gives internal and external customers confidence in the data
• Design and build production-grade reusable pipeline frameworks with strong data quality observability and error handling built in
• Own UK Unity Catalog governance: catalogue schema table design ownership models and access control strategies
• Implem…