Technology Lead - Underwriting Technology

Insurance

Permanent

London

Hybrid - 2 days in office

£110,000 + Bonus + Progression + Benefits

Fantastic Opportunity

My client is a leading Specialist Insurer and they are looking for an experienced Technology Lead to join their existing team and be responsible for the design and delivery of an agreed and evolving set of UW Technology Initiatives.

This role will suit a true technology expert on a development team as you will be responsible for everything from planning to delivering key features and management of those features.

To be successful in the role you will need to quickly develop a deep understanding of the products and business goals which you can translate into technology direction, design, and decisions.

Experience of Insurance and Reinsurance business and supporting technologies and/or experience leading implementation programs for the same is preferable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understanding the UW Technology initiatives landscape for my client on a global basis, and the different UW Technology initiatives to design and support the implementation of proportionate and fit for purpose solutions designs and plans, including the downstream impacts on the technology landscape, and associated governance/controls.
• Understand the individual initiatives and products to build and present designs (based on the high-level design considerations and transition states) to a sufficient level of detail for translation into technical deliverables
• Set-up and run a Design Authority Group, in line with the Terms of Reference
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects and Development teams to develop the solution design, aligning detailed designs with the high-level design and escalating any deviations
• Work closely with Software Architects, challenging their decisions and collaborating with them to optimise technical designs and translate them into technical deliverables
• Documenting key transition states from a Technology delivery point of view, and evolution throughout interim states, to a target Technology state
• Technology Capabilities & Standards:
• Provide application design and programming expertise and guidance to Technology professionals involved in the development and enhancement of business applications
• Work with Technology areas to identify, propose and implement new technologies as solutions to business needs, based on strategic direction and priorities
• Aligning the detailed designs with the wider GRS Technology Roadmap and 'North Star' Architecture and standards
• Create technical documentation for development solutions, future reference, and reporting

Skills and Experience

Technical Experience - proven experience (a minimum of three years) as a Technical Lead, Solutions Engineer, or similar role, working within Agile frameworks and associated architectures, design, coding languages and testing & deployment tools, including the following:

• Angular 6
• Java/JavaScript/JSON
• Ci/Cd pipeline build & deployment tools eg Bamboo
• Micro services & APIs
• Cloud experience (AWS & Azure) and serverless code deployment
• API integration experience, REST preferred
• Understanding of event driven architecture.
• Different AWS deployment methods eg native EC2, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (JVM) & Docker
• Familiar with design thinking, behaviour, and test-driven development/familiarity with test-and-learn approaches
• Experience of SQL database development, SSIS and cloud deployment eg RDS in AWS
• Knowledge of containerised deployments and optimisation techniques & tools eg Docker, Fargate, Kubernetes
• Experience of working with wider project teams including Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Business Analysts and Testers
• Experience of producing technical support documentation
• Experience of writing technical specifications/User Stories
• Experience of working within the full development life cycle ie development, unit testing and release management
• Experience of source code repositories, code branching and version control systems eg GIT and TFS

Technology Lead - Underwriting Technology

Insurance

Permanent

London

Hybrid - 2 days in office

£110,000 + Bonus + Progression + Benefits

Fantastic Opportunity