Technical Lead

**Technical Lead - UW Core - Global & Digital Products**

**Permanent**

**Hybrid**

**London**

**£90,000 - £115,000 + Bonus +Benefits**

**Technical Lead - UW Core - Global & Digital Products - (OAuth/OpenID) - (AWS & Azure) and serverless code design and deployment - Micro services & API design (REST preferred) - Docker, Kubernetes - Angular / React - Java/JavaScript/JSON - GitHub
- Terraform**

**About the Role**:
My prestigious Specialty insurer is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic individual to join their UW (Underwriting) Core, Global & Digital Products Portfolio. You will work with the Chief Product Owners, Delivery Lead, Architects, and wider team to developand implement a technical architecture that enables my client to deliver on its strategy.

You will have experience as a technology expert with development teams where you were responsible for planning to delivery of key features and management of those features. To be successful in the role you will need to quickly develop a deep understandingof the products and business goals which you can translate into technology direction, design, and decisions.

Using professional concepts in developing resolutions to critical issues and broad design matters. You will be recognized as a thought leader within your discipline who influences decisions made by senior leadership and advances the craft of technical designwithin our organisation.

**Technical Lead - UW Core - Global & Digital Products - (OAuth/OpenID) - (AWS & Azure) and serverless code design and deployment - Micro services & API design (REST preferred) - Docker, Kubernetes - Angular / React - Java/JavaScript/JSON - GitHub
- Terraform**

**Key Responsibilities**:
Act as the Technical Lead across the UW (Underwriting) Core, Global & Digital Products Portfolio you will

**Have responsibility for**:
Collaborate with Chief Product Owner, Architects, and Development teams to develop the solution design, aligning detailed designs with the overarching architecture strategy, ensure consistency, maintainability, and flexibility, and escalating any deviations

Lead the decision-making process with all levels and make recommendations to effectively implement project requirements

Document key transition states from a customer experience point of view and technology evolution

Work with Technology functional areas to seek out, propose and implement re-use opportunities from the wider organization as solutions to business needs, based on strategic direction and priorities

Contribute to the technology roadmap, documenting the current state, supporting target, and helping to develop the transition states

Create technical documentation for development solutions, future reference, and reporting

Lead and support the team through our Agile transformation, embedding Agile Roles and Practices across the team and aligning these roles with recommendations from the parent organisation.

Be a technical advocate improve communications with developers and have a good understanding of their challenges

'Hands-on' and mentoring where required, including recommending and implementing improvements in the development process and conducting peer reviews of the developer's code if required

**Skills and Experience**:
Proven experience (a minimum of three years) as a Technical Lead, Solutions Engineer/ Architect, or similar role, working within Agile frameworks and associated architectures, design, coding languages, and testing & deployment tools

Strong leadership experience with good communication and presentation skills, working with internal and external parties.

Cloud experience (AWS & Azure) and serverless code design and deployment

Experience in Micro services & API design (REST preferred)

Understanding of event-driven architecture

Knowledge of containerised deployments and optimisation techniques & tools e.g., Docker, Kubernetes

Knowledge of AWS deployment methods e.g., native EC2, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (JVM) & Docker

The following is advantageous:
Angular / React

Java/JavaScript/JSON

CI/CD pipeline build & deployment tools e.g., GitHub or equivalent

Familiar with systems thinking and with test-and-learn approaches

Knowledge of SQL database development, SSIS, and cloud deployment e.g., RDS in AWS

Experience in working with agile teams including Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Testers

Experience in producing technical documentation

Experience in writing technical specifications/User Stories

Experience in working within the full development lifecycle i.e., development, unit testing, and release management

Experience in source code repositories, code branching, and version control systems e.g., GIT and TFS

Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code desirable e.g., Terraform

**Technical Lead - UW Core - Global & Digital Products**

**Permanent**

**Hybrid**

**London**

**£90,000 - £115,000 + Bonus +Benefits