
Why work with us?
We’re a thriving, fast-paced business with an agile mindset and a desire to grow. Sound like an
environment where you would excel?
Learning Culture
We place a strong emphasis on motivating everyone to reach their full potential by creating opportunities to develop across our businesses.
- Training with us: We work closely with team managers to identify individual development needs and offer a varied approach to learning and growth to meet those needs.
- Become Qualified with us: If you’re committed, and see a future with us, we will offer you time and financial support to advance through courses and qualifications.
- Excel with us: Our Leadership Development Programme allows our existing managers the opportunity to develop and enhance their skills. Through our Future Leaders programme, we equip future leaders with the tools and skills they need to succeed in a leadership role.

Awards & Recognition
Over the years Somerset Bridge Group have been proud recipients of numerous industry awards, including – Shortlisted in the British Insurance Awards for the Personal Lines Broker of the Year.
Awarded a Silver from Investors in People, and most recently Best Broker in the UK General Insurance Sector by Insurance DataLab.
Our Company Benefits
Please be aware that these are our Group-wide benefits and some additional benefits may apply locally.

Our Benefits
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- First Bus Commuter Travel Club (Bristol)
- Metro Saver Scheme (Newcastle)
- Electric Vehicle – Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Eye Care Reimbursement
- Flu Vouchers
- Healthcare Cash Plan – claim cashback on a variety of everyday healthcare costs
- Free Fruit & Refreshments
- Professional Health & Fitness App
- Enhanced Parental Leave – including time off for IVF appointments
- Hybrid Working – 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home
- 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days over 2 years’ service and 30 days after 5 years’ service. Plus bank holidays!
- Religious bank holidays – if you don’t celebrate Christmas and Easter, you can use these annual leave days on other occasions throughout the year.
- Flexi-time
- Flexible working – we will always consider applications for those who require less than the advertised hours
- Discretionary Annual Bonus
- 25% Car Insurance Discount
- 20% Travel Insurance Discount
- Pension Scheme – 5% employee, 6% employer
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
- 100’s of SBG Retailer Discounts
- Life Assurance – 4 times your salary
- Employee Referral Scheme

Your Wellbeing

Social Events
- Christmas Party
- Summer Party
- Awards Ceremony
- Staff Appreciation Events
- Group Social Events
- Culture Committee
- Communal Games Area (Bristol)
Current Vacancies
First Line Compliance and Risk Associate
Permanent – Full Time
|Newcastle
Compensation £35,000 – £41,000 / year
We are recruiting for a First Line Compliance & Risk Associate to assist in the management of First Line governance, and to help manage a framework that promotes the embedding of structures and processes that improve the provision of Governance, Risk and Compliance services across different business areas.
The ideal candidate will have previously worked within the Insurance sector with Compliance and / or risk experience.
Data Engineer
Permanent – Full Time
|Newcastle
Compensation £55,000 – £68,500 / year
We’re building something special — and we need a talented Data Engineer to help bring our Azure data platform to life.
This is your chance to work on a greenfield Enterprise Data Warehouse programme in the insurance sector, shaping data pipelines and platforms that power smarter decisions, better pricing, and sharper customer insights.
The Data Engineer will design, build, and optimise scalable data pipelines within Azure Databricks, ensuring high-quality, reliable data is available to support pricing, underwriting, claims, and operational decision-making. This role is critical in modernising SBG’s cloud-based data infrastructure, ensuring compliance with FCA/PRA regulations, and enabling AI-driven analytics and automation.
By leveraging Azure-native services, such as Azure Data Factory (ADF) for orchestration, Delta Lake for ACID-compliant data storage, and Databricks Structured Streaming for real-time data processing, the Data Engineer will help unlock insights, enhance pricing accuracy, and drive innovation. The role also includes optimising Databricks query performance, implementing robust security controls (RBAC, Unity Catalog), and ensuring enterprise-wide data reliability.
Working closely with Data Architects, Pricing Teams, Data Analysts, and IT, this role will ensure our Azure Databricks data ecosystem is scalable, efficient, and aligned with business objectives. Additionally, the Data Engineer will contribute to cost optimisation, governance, and automation within Azure’s modern data platform.
We’re building something special — and we need a talented Data Engineer to help bring our Azure data platform to life.
Data Architect
Permanent – Full Time
|Newcastle
Compensation £82,500 – £98,000 / year
Are you ready to shape the data backbone of an ambitious insurance business?
We’re on the lookout for a Data Architect to help us build a modern, scalable, and secure data estate that unlocks value across pricing, customer experience, operations, and regulatory reporting.
This role is central to our mission to become a truly data-driven organisation. You’ll play a key part in designing our future state architecture, guiding our move to an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), and enabling advanced analytics, governance, and data protection by design.
The role will focus on ensuring data integrity, scalability, security, and performance within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, leveraging Databricks as the core platform for advanced analytics, data engineering, and machine learning.
The Data Architect will collaborate closely with stakeholders across the business and in particular with data engineering, data science, and pricing teams to optimise data solutions that drive business intelligence, predictive modelling, and real-time decision-making. The role also involves leading innovation by adopting best practices in cloud-based data architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.
Additionally, the Data Architect will play a key role in modernising and optimising data pipelines, enabling high-performance, cost-efficient, and scalable solutions that support AI-driven insights and pricing optimisation.
We’re on the lookout for a Data Architect to help us build a modern, scalable, and secure data estate that unlocks value across pricing, customer experience, operations, and regulatory reporting.
This role is central to our mission to become a truly data-driven organisation. You’ll play a key part in designing our future state architecture, guiding our move to an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), and enabling advanced analytics, governance, and data protection by design.
The role will focus on ensuring data integrity, scalability, security, and performance within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, leveraging Databricks as the core platform for advanced analytics, data engineering, and machine learning.
The Data Architect will collaborate closely with stakeholders across the business and in particular with data engineering, data science, and pricing teams to optimise data solutions that drive business intelligence, predictive modelling, and real-time decision-making. The role also involves leading innovation by adopting best practices in cloud-based data architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.
Additionally, the Data Architect will play a key role in modernising and optimising data pipelines, enabling high-performance, cost-efficient, and scalable solutions that support AI-driven insights and pricing optimisation.
Data Protection Analyst
Permanent – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation Up to £38,000 / year
We are hiring for a Data Protection Executive to take a crucial role within our Data Protection team, ensuring that SBG’s data protection framework is robust, compliant, and effectively implemented. This role is pivotal in safeguarding the organisation’s data assets and maintaining the trust of our customers and stakeholders. By supporting the development and compliance of data protection standards and processes, the Data Protection Executive will contribute to the overall security and reputation of the company.
Risk Oversight Manager
Permanent – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation Competitive package
We are recruiting for a Risk Oversight Manager to join our Group Risk & Assurance department. The role reports into the Head of Risk and takes a leading role in the provision of 2nd Line of defence oversight to the business and assists with the implementation and embedding of the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF). The Risk Oversight Manager will consult with relevant stakeholders across SBG to support and challenge the identification, assessment, monitoring, management and reporting of key risk exposures within the group.
Large Loss and Complex Claims Handler
Permanent – Full Time
|Newcastle
Compensation Competitive package
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a catastrophic Injury claims handler with experience of independently handling motor claims in excess of £250,000 to join our team here at Somerset Bridge. We are a highly experienced and well-respected large loss team with a strong focus on developing our staff.
Senior Analyst
Permanent – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation Up to £60,000 / year
We are hiring for a commercially astute analyst to support the delivery of our car insurance strategy. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering actionable insights, supporting governance and trading decisions, and ensuring effective execution of our underwriting plans. This role will also contribute to the operation and documentation of key governance forums, helping ensure our portfolio remains compliant, well-managed, and aligned to business objectives. This role is ideal for someone with strong analytical skills, and eye for detail, and a passion for commercial performance.
Pricing Compliance Manager
Permanent – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation £65,000 – £70,000 / year
We are recruiting for a Pricing Compliance Manager to support the Head of Analytics and R&D to achieve targets & objectives of the Analytics and R&D function. The Pricing Compliance Manager will ensure that we provide good value to our customers, and that our pricing and our processes are compliant with all relevant regulations.
Legal Assistant
Permanent – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation Up to £30,000 / year
The successful Legal Assistant will provide vital administrative support to the Legal Team, encompassing the management of systems and processes. This position plays an integral role in ensuring the seamless functioning of the Legal Department, optimising the efficiency of legal procedures, and upholding compliance with regulatory standards.
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