Technical Lead Developer

Technical Lead Developer

Edinburgh

Contract Type - Permanent

At Royal London we want to attract the best talent to help us achieve our vision of becoming the most trusted and recommend financial company in the UK.

We are the largest mutual life, pensions and Investment Company in the UK, with Group funds under management of £118.9 billion and latest ProfitShare pay out to members of £142 million. Group businesses provide around 9.0 million policies and employ 3,976 people (figures as of 05 Feb 2019).

We have an exciting opportunity for a Technical Lead Developer to join one of our Squads in Advisor Operational Experience. You will become part of a dynamic and effective agile team that deliver Identity and Access Management solutions which enable our technical transformation.

The purpose of this role is to help lead, set standards and perform code reviews for the development team as well as to support the development of new code. You will be working in a multi-disciplinary squad which operate with a Product Owner and Scrum Master. It is essential the Lead can support the team working in a busy and fast paced environment, as well as ensure standards remain high.You will provide technical guidance across the squad, drive best practice, ensure technical requirements are delivered as agreed and engage closely with other programs of work in Royal London as well as the architecture teams.

What you will be doing

• Drive the delivery of complex solutions within own area of expertise
• Provide technical advice and guidance to other software developers, proactively and reactively
• Will ensure relevant design is agreed and documented
• Will lead review of others’ work
• Carry out impact assessment of complex changes to existing applications
• Will deliver code that meets Group standards, guidelines and quality gates for given technology
• Will ensure all code is thoroughly tested
• Will ensure technical solutions are safely implemented to production environment(s) without impact to internal or external customers
• Encourage close collaboration with other disciplines within the team
• Manage dependencies with other teams
• Continually looks for operational and process improvements to deliver effective change efficiently.
• Take an active role on the transfer of knowledge and sharing of experiences relating to own area of technical expertise at practice level

What we're looking for

• A strong understanding of service-oriented and event-driven web architectures
• Sound knowledge of system development techniques and industry best practices
• Experience of the following tools and technologies are essential
  • .NET/C#
  • SQL Server
• Ability to share technical experience and knowledge, and lead and mentor other developers
• An adaptable approach to work and comfortable working in a fast paced, reactive workplace
• Ability to cope with high-levels of pressure involving high profile projects, and take ownership for the team’s delivery
• Demonstrable experience of ability to work with different coding languages, and keep up to date with innovations in these
• Experience within supporting junior colleagues and sharing best practice
• Excellent communication skills with stakeholders at all levels
• Comfortable collaborating with different business areas

Skills that will help you in the role

• Experience with .NET Core
• Experience working on Angular 8
• Experience of Identity Access Management Solutions
• Experience of automation testing
• Experience of modern continuous integration tooling
• Familiar within working in an agile environment

What we offer

• We've always been proud to reward employees by offering a number of benefits
• such as Pensions and Protection, Performance and role-related benefits, Lifestyle and Wellbeing 
• Our culture comes from within, or to put it another way, it comes from our people. It’s what makes Royal London a great place to work.
• Our People Promise is something we live up to every day. We know we can rely on you, and you can expect plenty from us in return.
• Glassdoor have ranked as among the best places to work and this year we entered the top 10 

We are an equal opportunities employer. We work hard to attract the best talent for our award-winning team. We believe that embracing difference makes us stronger. Our diverse people bring us different skills – whatever their educational background, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

In fact, the first pillar of our People Promise is designed to make sure you 'work somewhere inclusive'. We want to live up to this promise; it’s good for our people and good for our customers too, because our workforce should reflect our communities.