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About the Role
The Algorithmic Underwriting Lead manages the rules engine that drives underwriting decisioning for Fast Track, ensuring accurate, reliable, and commercially appropriate outcomes within the Underwriting Framework. This role supports automated decisions, provides recommendations, and facilitates the bind process, while also identifying opportunities to enhance the framework for greater automation.
Responsibilities
- Own and manage the rules engine that underpins automated underwriting decisioning for Fast Track.
- Ensure the engine supports automated underwriting decisions with no human referral.
- Ensure the engine supports underwriting recommendations for Account Managers.
- Ensure the engine supports initial in-scope / out-of-scope decisioning.
- Ensure the engine supports automated bind processing.
- Ensure all decisions made by the rules engine remain within the boundaries of the Underwriting Framework.
- Ensure the rules engine provides support to Account Managers when outcomes require judgment rather than a binary automated decision.
- Partner with the CUO, Technical Underwriting Managers, and Underwriting Oversight & Controls Manager to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Identify opportunities to improve the underlying Underwriting Framework to enable greater automation.
- Monitor system performance, decision outcomes, and exception trends to identify issues in the decisioning logic.
- Investigate and correct defects, inconsistencies, or gaps in the rules engine.
- Coordinate with relevant stakeholders to resolve logic issues quickly and effectively.
- Work closely with underwriting leadership, controls, and technical underwriting specialists to ensure the rules engine supports business goals.
- Act as a key bridge between underwriting strategy, framework design, and automation delivery.
Requirements
- Experience in underwriting automation, pricing model development, decision engines, or rules management.
- Strong understanding of underwriting frameworks, referrals, and decision support processes.
- Ability to translate underwriting rules and commercial intent into operational logic.
- Analytical and detail-oriented.
- Innovative, but disciplined.
- Strong technical and commercial judgment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working collaboratively with underwriting, controls, technical, and operational stakeholders.
- Familiarity with automation governance, testing, and continuous improvement is highly desirable.
- Collaborative and influential.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, evolving environment.
- Focused on accuracy, reliability, and scalable automation.
Location
- London
- Norwich
- Birmingham
Work Type
- Hybrid
Benefits
- Professional development opportunities
- Interesting work
- Supportive leaders
- Vibrant and inclusive culture
- Talented colleagues
- New solutions creation
- Impact for colleagues, clients and communities
- Range of career opportunities
- Benefits and rewards to enhance well-being
About the Company
- Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries.
- With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective.
- For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.
Equal Opportunity
- Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment.
- We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- We are an equal opportunities employer.
- We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process.
- If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at reasonableaccommodations@marsh.com.
- Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office.
- All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week.
- Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.