Practice Lead – Insurance Aspire Systems (www.aspiresys.com) is a global technology services company that helps enterprises build and modernize digital products through engineering excellence, domain expertise, and customer-centric innovation. With deep capabilities across Digital Engineering, Cloud, Data, AI, Enterprise Applications, Quality Engineering, and Industry Solutions, Aspire partners with organizations to accelerate business transformation and deliver measurable outcomes.

Role Overview Aspire Systems is looking for an experienced Practice Lead – Insurance to drive the strategic growth, solution development, market positioning, and customer success of its Insurance Practice. This is a practice leadership role responsible for shaping Aspire’s insurance offerings, building differentiated solutions, strengthening presales capability, developing reusable IP / accelerators / frameworks, enabling customer-centric transformation, and positioning Aspire as a trusted insurance technology partner.

Qualifications & Experience - 15–20+ years of experience in Insurance technology, domain consulting, solution consulting, practice leadership, presales, delivery leadership, or technology transformation roles.

- Robust domain understanding of Property & Casualty and Life Insurance is mandatory.
- Good understanding of insurance business processes such as underwriting, claims, policy administration, billing, customer onboarding, renewals, risk assessment, distribution, and reporting.
- Technical background in any modern technology area such as digital engineering, cloud, data, AI, automation, enterprise applications, integrations, core insurance platforms, or quality engineering.
- Proven experience in building service offerings, solution frameworks, accelerators, reusable IP, and go-to-market material.
- Experience supporting large insurance transformation pursuits, RFPs, RFIs, customer workshops, and executive presentations.
- Strong presales, solutioning, consulting, and stakeholder management experience.
- Excellent communication, storytelling, presentation, and executive engagement skills.
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams including sales, delivery, consulting, marketing, partnerships, and technology practices.
- Experience with Guidewire, Duck Creek, Majesco, Insurtech platforms, insurance analytics, AI-led underwriting/claims automation, or insurance testing solutions will be an added advantage.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Insurance, or a related discipline; Master’s degree is preferred.

Key Responsibilities Practice Strategy & Growth - Define and execute the strategic roadmap for the Insurance Practice aligned with Aspire’s business priorities, customer needs, and market opportunities.

- Drive growth across key insurance segments including Property & Casualty, Life & Health, Employee Benefits, insurers, intermediaries, MGAs, and Insurtech’s.
- Identify emerging market trends across digital insurance, AI-led underwriting, claims automation, customer experience, core modernization, connected insurance, and data-driven insurance operations.
- Strengthen Aspire’s positioning as a customer-centric insurance technology and transformation partner.
- Collaborate with leadership, sales, delivery, and consulting teams to identify new business opportunities and create scalable growth plans.

Service Offering





Development - Build and enhance Aspire’s Insurance service portfolio across:

- Underwriting transformation
- Claims management
- Policy administration modernization
- Billing and accounts management
- Insurance data and analytics
- AI-led risk analysis
- Intelligent automation
- Customer self-service and omni-channel portals
- Connected insurance solutions
- Insurance application testing
- Guidewire transformation and ecosystem solutions
- Define value propositions, solution themes, service packages, reusable assets, commercial models, and go-to-market strategies.
- Create differentiated offerings for P&C; and Life Insurance based on industry challenges, customer priorities, and technology trends.
- Partner with internal technology practices such as Cloud, Data, AI, Digital Engineering, Enterprise Applications, and Quality Engineering to build integrated insurance solutions.

Solution

Building & Presales Support - Lead solution strategy for strategic insurance opportunities, RFPs, RFIs, proposals, customer workshops, and transformation engagements.

- Work closely with sales, consulting, delivery, and technology teams to design customer-centric, scalable, and commercially viable insurance solutions.
- Develop solution approaches, estimation models, transition plans, implementation roadmaps, and business value narratives.
- Participate in customer presentations, executive discussions, solution walkthroughs, and discovery workshops as the Insurance domain and practice expert.
- Translate customer business problems into outcome-based insurance technology solutions. Innovation, IP, Accelerators & Frameworks - Drive the creation of reusable insurance frameworks, solution accelerators, reference architectures, playbooks, and industry-specific assets.
- Contribute to Aspire’s insurance accelerators and solution themes such as customer experience platforms, underwriting automation frameworks, analytics-driven solutions, and intelligent insurance operations.
- Build reusable components that improve speed-to-market, delivery efficiency, solution quality, and customer value.
- Establish governance for IP development, adoption, continuous improvement, and practice-wide reuse.
- Explore opportunities to apply AI, automation, cloud, data engineering, and modern integration patterns across the insurance value chain. Customer-Centric Solutions - Engage with strategic insurance customers to understand their business priorities, process challenges, technology landscape, and transformation goals.
- Build solutions that improve operational efficiency, enhance policyholder experience, automate underwriting and claims journeys, and enable data-driven decision-making.
- Support advisory conversations with customers on insurance modernization, digital transformation, automation, AI adoption, and platform modernization.
- Capture customer feedback and market insights to continuously refine practice offerings and solution collateral.




- Act as a trusted advisor to customers by combining insurance domain understanding with technology consulting expertise.

Thought

Leadership & Market Positioning - Build Aspire’s external visibility in the insurance space through thought leadership initiatives.

- Create and contribute to whitepapers, blogs, industry perspectives, case studies, solution briefs, webinars, podcasts, event content, and analyst-facing material.
- Represent Aspire in customer events, insurance forums, webinars, podcasts, partner sessions, and industry discussions.
- Collaborate with marketing teams to develop compelling collaterals, pitch decks, brochures, campaign content, and digital assets.
- Position Aspire’s capabilities around insurance digital transformation, underwriting automation, claims modernization, customer experience, AI-led insurance operations, and Guidewire ecosystem services. Branding, Collaterals & Go-to-Market Enablement - Develop high-quality sales and presales collaterals for Aspire’s Insurance Practice.
- Create capability decks, solution one-pagers, battle cards, value proposition documents, proposal content, and industry-specific messaging.
- Support marketing campaigns, events, webinars, podcasts, partner branding, and account-based marketing initiatives.
- Ensure consistent messaging across internal stakeholders, sales teams, delivery teams, and external customer-facing material.
- Enable sales teams with strong insurance narratives, solution differentiators, customer success stories, and market-ready talking points.

Partnership

Collaboration - Build and strengthen partnerships with insurance technology platforms, ecosystem partners, cloud providers, data/AI platforms, automation vendors, and core insurance solution providers.

- Support joint go-to-market initiatives, partner-led campaigns, co-branded assets, and solution showcases.
- Collaborate with Guidewire and other insurance ecosystem partners where relevant to create differentiated customer offerings.
- Drive partner enablement, certifications, solution alignment, and collaborative growth opportunities.

Practice

Enablement - Mentor and enable solution architects, presales consultants, delivery leaders, and domain SMEs on insurance solutions, market trends, and practice offerings.

- Build internal knowledge assets, training material, reusable templates, and solutioning frameworks for the Insurance Practice.
- Promote a culture of innovation, collaboration, domain-led consulting, and continuous learning.
- Define practice standards, reusable methodologies, and governance models to ensure consistent solution quality and delivery excellence.
- Support internal capability building across insurance domain, P&C;, Life, underwriting, claims, billing, policy administration, and insurance transformation themes.

Preferred Candidate

Profile - Insurance domain leader with strong exposure to both business and technology transformation.

- Ability to convert insurance market needs into scalable offerings and customer-ready solutions.
- Strong customer-facing personality with excellent presentation and consultative communication skills.
- Experience in building practice-level collateral, reusable assets, solution packs, and thought leadership content.
- Comfortable working with senior stakeholders, sales teams, delivery leaders, technology partners, and customer executives.
- Passionate about innovation, branding, customer value, and business growth.

📌 Insurance Practice Lead (Chennai)
🏢 Aspire Systems
📍 Chennai