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Rhys Jones

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Director of Engineering - UK Insurance at Bupa
📍 United Kingdom

Rhys Jones is the Director of Engineering for UK Insurance at Bupa, with a background leading large teams at firms like Direct Line Group. He is an experienced strategy, architecture, and software engineering leader focused on cloud platforms and digital transformation in financial services. Colleagues describe him as innovative and a pragmatic technologist.

He is on a mission to build the best place in the UK for software engineers to develop, learn, and grow.

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Experience
29 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering - UK Insurance
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
United Kingdom
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Priorities

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Engineering Culture
He aims to create the best environment for software engineers to learn and grow, and has actively promoted apprenticeship programs to develop new talent.
Cloud Transformation
He has a strong background in industrializing public cloud capabilities to enable strategic transformation programs and reduce application run costs.
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Career

Work history

5-2025
Director of Engineering - UK Insurance
Bupa
5-2022 - 12-2024
Head Of Engineering
Direct Line Group
10-2020 - 5-2022
Tribe Lead and Engineering Master Chapter Area Lead, Tech Enabling Tribe
Direct Line Group
6-2017 - 10-2020
Director of Application Development and Maintenance
Direct Line Group
9-2015 - 6-2017
Senior Manager, Digital & Engineering Services
Royal Bank of Scotland
In the press

Media appearances

Automation Journey of Bupa Global. Featured in Infosys Applied AI Podcast
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Education
1992 - 1996
BSc.
The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technonolgy (UMIST)
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