Technical Lead (App)

Job Title: Technical Lead

Contract Type: Permanent 

Location: Edinburgh or Alderley

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: Monday 30th June

We are currently seeking a highly skilled and motivated Technical Lead, to join our team at Royal London. As a Technical Lead, you will play a crucial role in managing the design, development, testing and smooth operation of our platform capabilities.

You will deliver development and test services for one of our platforms. You will be responsible for tool selection, vendor management and the technical roadmap and running the platform for one or more Royal London platform capabilities ensuring continuous improvement in availability, currency, and commerciality. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with a strong technical background in pensions and a passion for problem-solving to contribute to the growth and success of our organisation. As you will be a key technical advocate for the platform capabilities.
 
This is a progressive role, joining the Calculations team, as the Tech Lead for Calculations. The calculations team are responsible for designing, developing, running and testing complex FCA & SMPI pension calculations within the calculation platform engine.   

This role contributes to our values of strengthening our customers mutual choice, by providing sustainable technology solutions to our value streams and other platforms for those teams to build solutions for our customers.

About the role

• You will provide problem management and incident resolution capability (production support) for the platform they are responsible for.
• Build trusting relationships with key stakeholders and internal customers.
• Provides expertise to their team on the methods and tools needed to deliver change through the specialist platform.
• Ensure required technical upgrades and maintenance are scheduled, working closely with relevant 3rd party vendor(s).
• You will manage the team’s performance against key outcomes and deliverables and measures quality against agreed internal benchmarks.
• Responsible for managing the performance of 3rd party vendor(s) against contractual obligations and SLAs. As well as identifying opportunities to leverage new capabilities within the platform to add value to the business and our customers.
• Builds trusting relationships with key stakeholders and internal customers.
• Inputs to financial planning and portfolio shaping activities across the Group. Will lead with recruitment of permanent and flexible resource.

About you

• Will have sound, broad knowledge of IT.  Be an expert in application development techniques and methods. In-depth knowledge of application design and development best practices.
• Experience of managing and mentoring technical teams, both workload and people leadership will be an advantage, as this is a people leader and a technical leader role.
• Knowledge and experience of working with .NET and VBA automation applications will be an advantage.
• Knowledge and experience of working with cloud infrastructure, with Azure being an advantage.
• Ability to apply specialist knowledge to solve complex problems.
• Strong organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise and multitask in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience of successfully leading technical evaluations.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of Actuarial processes and developing solutions for pension calculations, and projections will be an advantage.
   

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.   

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. 

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits  

Inclusion, diversity and belonging. 

We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.