Manager - Senior Software Engineer (AI Projects)

Pwc; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC’s Risk team seeks a Manager/Senior Manager to shape and execute AI-driven transformation in insurance, leading design and delivery of advanced analytics initiatives.

You will work with actuaries, data scientists, engineers and insurance experts to build AI solutions that are robust, scalable and compliant in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Leading the design and delivery of AI-enabled solutions, from problem definition through to deployment.
• Shaping architectures for Generative AI and agentic systems.
• Hands-on collaboration with engineers, data scientists and actuaries to translate vision into scalable solutions.
• Navigating fast-moving technology landscapes and balancing innovation, risk, and value.

Responsibilities

• Leading the design and delivery of AI-enabled solutions, from problem definition through to deployment, across insurance pricing, reserving, capital modelling, finance transformation and risk analytics.
• Shaping solution architectures for Generative AI and agentic systems, including data, models, orchestration and integration decisions.
• Working hands-on with technical teams to translate vision into buildable, testable and scalable solutions.
• Navigating fast-moving technology landscapes, assessing emerging tools and approaches, and trading off between innovation, risk and time-to-value.

Job description

You'll be joining PwC's Risk Line of Service, within our AI & Modelling team, working at the forefront of AI-enabled transformation in the insurance sector. This role is for people who understand technology deeply enough to shape and execute a vision, not just talk about it. You will help insurance clients design, build and embed Generative AI, agentic and advanced analytics solutions across finance, actuarial, pricing, capital and risk functions, operating in an environment where technologies, architectures and regulatory expectations are evolving rapidly As a Manager / Senior Manager, you will sit close to the technology: shaping solution architecture, guiding engineering and modelling teams, and ensuring that AI solutions are robust, scalable, explainable and fit for purpose in a regulated insurance environment. You will work alongside actuaries, data scientists, engineers and insurance specialists, and will be supported by PwC's onshore and offshore Technology and AI Centres of Excellence.

What your days will look like:

• Leading the design and delivery of AI-enabled solutions, from problem definition through to deployment, across insurance pricing, reserving, capital modelling, finance transformation and risk analytics.
• Shaping solution architectures for Generative AI and agentic systems, including decisions around data, models, orchestration, controls and integration into existing platforms.
• Working hands-on with technical teams (engineers, data scientists, actuaries) to translate vision into buildable, testable and scalable solutions.
• Navigating fast-moving technology landscapes, assessing emerging tools and approaches, and making informed trade-offs between innovation, risk, cost and time-to-value.

This role is for you if:

• You have strong experience delivering technology-enabled transformation, in insurance or financial services, but with clear hands-on involvement in solution design and delivery.
• You have practical experience with modern AI and analytics approaches, such as: Generative AI and large language model-based systems, Agentic or decision-automation architectures, Advanced analytics and modelling in regulated environments
• You understand how AI solutions are built and operated, including: Data pipelines and feature engineering, Model lifecycle management (development, testing, monitoring), Integration with enterprise systems and workflows
• You are comfortable making architectural and design decisions in situations where there is no single "right answer", and technology choices evolve rapidly.
• You understand insurance finance, actuarial, pricing, risk or capital well enough to design solutions that work in practice, not just in theory.
• You can lead technical teams without needing to be the deepest specialist, providing direction, challenge and structure while enabling others to do their best work. In order to be the leading professional services firm it's important we have the right values, culture and behaviours embedded throughout our organisation, so our work reflects our purpose and we can successfully deliver our strategy.

Our values set the expectations for the way we interact with each other, our clients, and in the communities in which we operate. These values, and the behaviours that they require from us, are relevant to all our people regardless of grade. They support a culture that empowers our people to be the best they can be, through challenging experiences and encouraging our people to speak up to make the firm a better place. We want all our people to understand and embrace the culture and personally feel part of the legacy this will create for our future employees. We're a hugely diverse business, bound together by our purpose - to build trust in society and solve important problems for our clients and the communities in which we operate. We believe we can make the biggest impact when our purpose is embedded within everything we do.