Lead Cloud Developer

Description
The Role
We are looking for a Lead Cloud developer to join our growing engineering organisation developing a wide range of market-leading InsurTech solutions. You will be working in flexible agile squads delivering value on multiple greenfield workstreams in the delivery family to deliver core foundational functionality that will be used by multiple SaaS product offerings across the business.

Although mostly a hands on role, part of your time will be to technically team lead the scrum team to ensure best practice SaaS is implemented.

You will play a key role in designing and creating new features and enhancing existing code whilst ensuring the multiple micro services that team is responsible for continue to meet high levels of reliability, maintainability, usability, and performance.

Although experience in Angular is not mandatory, a willingness to upskill and play a full stack role in the team is also required.

The Responsibilities

• Work with the Lead System Architect and Product Owner to define, refine and deliver the product backlog.
• Contribute to the design of SaaS software solutions meeting functional and non-functional requirements.
• Lead and guide implementation of product code (Front and Back End), following best practices for maintainability, testability and performance.
• Lead and guide implementation of test-related code (unit tests, test frameworks and associated automated test cases).
• Review and debug code to identify defects, performance bottlenecks or technical debt.
• Conduct PoC's using the latest technologies and present the findings to technical and non-technical audiences
• Implement high-performance solutions targeting Azure using IaC.
• Optionally take on people management responsibilities.

Qualifications
The Requirements
Skills
The technology stack is primarily Angular, C#, and Azure along with other suitable technologies guided by our internal tech radar. We are therefore looking for developers with both front and back-end skills to complement our existing teams, hence candidates will need to demonstrate:

• Experience with backend development: RESTful API's and services for Microsoft cloud deployments using C# .NET Core/ASP.NET, Azure infrastructure and services, JSON/XML.
• Experience of working with cloud technologies, specifically the Azure stack.
• Experience working with test frameworks/test cases for RESTful services
• Experience with software engineering best practices: object-oriented, design patterns, SOLID principles.
• Experience with software development ecosystem (IDE's, version control, test automation/CI, etc.).
• Strong appreciation of building flexible cross-functional full-stack squads with shift-left DevOps, SRE and QA culture.

Other Highly Desirable, But Not Essential Skills Are

• Strong appreciation of DevOps principles, with the ability to create automated processes to continuously deliver SaaS products on a regular cadence.
• Angular 2+ (Training will be provided)
• People Management (Training will be provided)
• Experience using Visual Studio Team Services/Azure DevOps and Git.
• Experience with SQL Server or other database management systems.
• Degree-educated with Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or relevant discipline.

At WTW, we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome, valued and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organisation. We embrace all types of diversity.
At WTW, we trust you to know your work and the people, tools and environment you need to be successful. The majority of our colleagues work in a "hybrid" style, with a mix of remote, in-person and in-office interactions dependent on the needs of the team, role and clients. Our flexibility is rooted in trust and "hybrid" is not a one-size-fits-all solution.