Head of Product Engineering

Your Role
As Head of Product Engineering, you will lead the engineering capability that powers Apollo’s product led digital strategy. This role sits at the centre of our product centric operating model, where engineering excellence directly enables better underwriting insight, data driven decision making, and intelligent risk products.
You will lead engineering capability across application development, data engineering, and AI and machine learning (AI/ML), ensuring our teams have the platforms, standards, and professional environment needed to deliver exceptional products. Engineers operate within product teams across the business, and your role is to build the engineering ecosystem that allows those teams to succeed, combining strong delivery capability with long term engineering excellence.
Alongside delivery, you will shape Apollo’s engineering culture. You will develop high performing engineering communities, create consistent technical standards, and ensure the tools, platforms, and practices in place allow engineers to build high quality, scalable and reliable products. This is a leadership role for someone who believes deeply in collaborative product development and enabling talented engineers to do their best work.
What You’ll Do
You will lead and develop Apollo’s product engineering capability, bringing together software development, data engineering, and AI/ML disciplines into a unified engineering community with shared standards and practices.
You will line manage and develop engineers across the organisation, supporting career growth, mentoring engineering leaders, and building an environment where technical talent can thrive. Creating strong communities of practice across engineering disciplines will be central to this, encouraging knowledge sharing, professional development, and continuous improvement.
You will establish and evolve the engineering platforms and tooling that support product delivery, including development frameworks, data platforms, CI/CD pipelines, testing approaches, and engineering quality standards. Your focus will be on ensuring engineers can deliver quickly while maintaining reliability, security, and maintainability.
Operating within Apollo’s federated delivery model, you will enable engineers embedded within product teams to succeed while maintaining strong technical leadership, shared standards, and a professional engineering community. You will work closely with Digital Enablement leadership to ensure engineering resources are allocated effectively across product priorities.
You will also partner closely with Core Technology leadership to ensure product engineering aligns with platform capabilities and architectural direction, creating clear integration patterns and scalable technology foundations.
A key focus of the role is ensuring data and AI capabilities are central to product development. You will oversee the evolution of Apollo’s data platforms, data pipelines, real time infrastructure, analytics tooling, and machine learning capabilities that power underwriting intelligence.
More broadly, you will champion modern engineering practices, balancing delivery commitments with platform evolution, technical debt management, and sustainable engineering capability development. You will build trusted partnerships across the leadership team and help ensure technology continues to create meaningful business value across Apollo.
What We Are Looking For

• Engineering Leadership Proven experience leading engineering organisations at scale, building strong technical capability, high performing teams, and sustainable delivery practices.
• Technical Credibility Deep technical understanding across modern application development, data engineering, and contemporary engineering practices, with experience delivering production systems and engineering platforms.
• Platform and Engineering Infrastructure Experience building and operating engineering platforms, development frameworks, and tooling that enable teams to deliver high quality software consistently.
• Federated or Matrix Delivery Models Experience working in environments where engineers are centrally managed but embedded within product or delivery teams.
• Data and AI Driven Product Environments Background in organisations where data engineering, analytics, and intelligent products are core to business value. Experience within financial services, insurance, or similarly data intensive environments is advantageous.
• Engineering Culture and Capability Development Strong track record of developing engineers, mentoring technical leaders, and building thriving engineering communities.
• Modern Data Platforms and AI/ML Understanding of data platforms, real time data infrastructure, and machine learning product development approaches.
• Stakeholder Leadership Excellent stakeholder management with the ability to influence across leadership teams, aligning engineering capability with product and business priorities.
• Leadership Mindset A collaborative, servant leadership approach focused on enabling others to succeed, building capability that lasts, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.