Job Title:
Technical Lead Division:
Information Technology Key Relationships:
Strategy and Innovation, Engineering, Data Management, Infrastructure, Operational & Managerial Staff, Platform Leads, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Business Stakeholders Job Summary: The Technical Lead (ESS) is the main conduit between development and architecture teams. They will ensure that all Beazley’s software policies and strategies are followed, and that the development team is aligned with the architecture and vision of software development. The Technical Lead also has a strong set of skills around project design and understands that the best design in the world stands no chance of succeeding if there is no plan with options for how to build it: on time, on quality, and on budget. The Technical Lead (ESS) helps contribute to a set of reusable infrastructure, tooling, and best practices that will allow developers to focus on adding business value rather than building plumbing code. The Technical Lead has a laser focus on quality and is an expert in security and the various levels of the testing pyramid. They will help drive consistency of approach across all stages of the software delivery cycle – including security, testing, and deployment (by helping to nurture a DevOps culture across the teams with which they are engaged). The Technical Lead ensures the health of the team and that standards are always maintained. Utilizing their knowledge of Beazley’s existing capabilities, as well as a broad knowledge of other relevant and emerging technology, the Technical Lead takes guidance from both the Technical Architecture and Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure that all proposed solutions align with the business, technology strategies, and security. The Technical Lead is part of the technical community and will collaborate and share knowledge accordingly. Responsibilities: Providing technical leadership, mentoring, and support to software development teams. Helping to design project plans that deliver designs to production securely, on time, on quality, and on budget. Driving consistency of approach in all aspects of the Software Delivery Cycle – including security, testing, and deployment. Challenging complex technology and IT-led solutions. Maintaining overall health of the applications they work on. Scope of Activities: Ensure all approaches comply with the requirements and governance frameworks. Work closely with development squads to mentor and train developers and testers. Help minimize the cost of supporting and owning solutions over the long term. Contribute to and drive the creation of detailed documentation covering all facets of system design and support. Work with Change Delivery to ensure that the delivered system is consistent with the agreed architecture and delivers value to the stakeholders. Understand, advocate, and support the Beazley technology strategy. Ensure solutions are aligned with the business and technology strategies. Provide expert advice on industry and application trends. Ensure that capabilities, where practical, are consolidated to increase the value of IT as a service. General: At Beazley, we are committed to doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do. It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to this principle through adoption of Beazley’s core values and behaviours – PIED and Being Beazley. Adopt the Beazley culture of Professionalism, Integrity, Effectiveness, and Dynamic that contributes to an internal environment of teamwork and promotes a positive brand image and experience to our external customers. Comply with Beazley procedures, policies, and regulations including the code of conduct. Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, the Talent Management development, or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system. Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers. Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs. Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, the Talent Management or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas. Personal Specification: Education and Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, systems analysis, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience. Knowledge/Experience/Skills: Experience in building large scale, eventually consistent, enterprise systems, utilizing multiple interaction modes beyond just HTTP. Experience of building hardened/secure systems. Expert in researching and spiking solutions. Expert at creating microservices from scratch. Expert in modern cross-platform .NET (6 and above). Experience of Event Sourcing / CQRS patterns. Experience of Confluent Cloud and Streaming. Working knowledge of building Twelve/Fifteen-Factor applications for infrastructure agnostic deployments, e.g., Azure, on-premises, and Kubernetes. Hands-on experience of Azure in a security-hardened environment. Hands-on experience of Azure API Manager and spectrum of API configuration and deployment processes. Understanding of Asynchronous systems / Eventual Consistency / Message Buses. SOA / Micro-service approaches and cost vs count. Familiarity with information management practices. Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments. Knowledge of business re-engineering principles and processes. Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation. Excellent problem solving, analytical, and technical skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Beneficial knowledge of Infrastructure As Code (preferably Terraform). Strong test automation experience covering unit tests, integration tests, non-functional, contract testing, etc. Ability to spike and develop out testing approaches for elements such as Snowflake. Use of various Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools preferably GitHub Actions. Microservice architectural approaches. Python knowledge and experience. Self-starter in working through functionality development. Able to operate asynchronously using team’s chats for advice and guidance. Able to navigate central standards and guidance. Able to argue exceptions to standard practice where conventional thinking is not applicable. Competencies: Ability to balance the long-term and short-term implications of individual decisions. Ability to bring a team of engineers together on a united vision. Ability to evaluate and understand the risk and reward of a proposed solution. Ability to propose multiple solutions to business problems. Ability to rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new trends and technologies. Ability to translate complex domain-specific concepts into knowledge that can be understood and consumed across domains. Characteristics: Highly supportive of the business and of its ideals and strategies. Neutral toward technology, vendor and product choices; more interested in results than in personal preferences. Ability to work with projects and change initiatives to deliver their goals without compromising the delivery of the wider IT strategy. Effective at driving short-term actions that are consistent with long-term goals. Motivated by long-term results.
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Technical Lead Division:
Information Technology Key Relationships:
Strategy and Innovation, Engineering, Data Management, Infrastructure, Operational & Managerial Staff, Platform Leads, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Business Stakeholders Job Summary: The Technical Lead (ESS) is the main conduit between development and architecture teams. They will ensure that all Beazley’s software policies and strategies are followed, and that the development team is aligned with the architecture and vision of software development. The Technical Lead also has a strong set of skills around project design and understands that the best design in the world stands no chance of succeeding if there is no plan with options for how to build it: on time, on quality, and on budget. The Technical Lead (ESS) helps contribute to a set of reusable infrastructure, tooling, and best practices that will allow developers to focus on adding business value rather than building plumbing code. The Technical Lead has a laser focus on quality and is an expert in security and the various levels of the testing pyramid. They will help drive consistency of approach across all stages of the software delivery cycle – including security, testing, and deployment (by helping to nurture a DevOps culture across the teams with which they are engaged). The Technical Lead ensures the health of the team and that standards are always maintained. Utilizing their knowledge of Beazley’s existing capabilities, as well as a broad knowledge of other relevant and emerging technology, the Technical Lead takes guidance from both the Technical Architecture and Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure that all proposed solutions align with the business, technology strategies, and security. The Technical Lead is part of the technical community and will collaborate and share knowledge accordingly. Responsibilities: Providing technical leadership, mentoring, and support to software development teams. Helping to design project plans that deliver designs to production securely, on time, on quality, and on budget. Driving consistency of approach in all aspects of the Software Delivery Cycle – including security, testing, and deployment. Challenging complex technology and IT-led solutions. Maintaining overall health of the applications they work on. Scope of Activities: Ensure all approaches comply with the requirements and governance frameworks. Work closely with development squads to mentor and train developers and testers. Help minimize the cost of supporting and owning solutions over the long term. Contribute to and drive the creation of detailed documentation covering all facets of system design and support. Work with Change Delivery to ensure that the delivered system is consistent with the agreed architecture and delivers value to the stakeholders. Understand, advocate, and support the Beazley technology strategy. Ensure solutions are aligned with the business and technology strategies. Provide expert advice on industry and application trends. Ensure that capabilities, where practical, are consolidated to increase the value of IT as a service. General: At Beazley, we are committed to doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do. It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to this principle through adoption of Beazley’s core values and behaviours – PIED and Being Beazley. Adopt the Beazley culture of Professionalism, Integrity, Effectiveness, and Dynamic that contributes to an internal environment of teamwork and promotes a positive brand image and experience to our external customers. Comply with Beazley procedures, policies, and regulations including the code of conduct. Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, the Talent Management development, or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system. Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers. Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs. Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, the Talent Management or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas. Personal Specification: Education and Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, systems analysis, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience. Knowledge/Experience/Skills: Experience in building large scale, eventually consistent, enterprise systems, utilizing multiple interaction modes beyond just HTTP. Experience of building hardened/secure systems. Expert in researching and spiking solutions. Expert at creating microservices from scratch. Expert in modern cross-platform .NET (6 and above). Experience of Event Sourcing / CQRS patterns. Experience of Confluent Cloud and Streaming. Working knowledge of building Twelve/Fifteen-Factor applications for infrastructure agnostic deployments, e.g., Azure, on-premises, and Kubernetes. Hands-on experience of Azure in a security-hardened environment. Hands-on experience of Azure API Manager and spectrum of API configuration and deployment processes. Understanding of Asynchronous systems / Eventual Consistency / Message Buses. SOA / Micro-service approaches and cost vs count. Familiarity with information management practices. Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments. Knowledge of business re-engineering principles and processes. Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation. Excellent problem solving, analytical, and technical skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Beneficial knowledge of Infrastructure As Code (preferably Terraform). Strong test automation experience covering unit tests, integration tests, non-functional, contract testing, etc. Ability to spike and develop out testing approaches for elements such as Snowflake. Use of various Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools preferably GitHub Actions. Microservice architectural approaches. Python knowledge and experience. Self-starter in working through functionality development. Able to operate asynchronously using team’s chats for advice and guidance. Able to navigate central standards and guidance. Able to argue exceptions to standard practice where conventional thinking is not applicable. Competencies: Ability to balance the long-term and short-term implications of individual decisions. Ability to bring a team of engineers together on a united vision. Ability to evaluate and understand the risk and reward of a proposed solution. Ability to propose multiple solutions to business problems. Ability to rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new trends and technologies. Ability to translate complex domain-specific concepts into knowledge that can be understood and consumed across domains. Characteristics: Highly supportive of the business and of its ideals and strategies. Neutral toward technology, vendor and product choices; more interested in results than in personal preferences. Ability to work with projects and change initiatives to deliver their goals without compromising the delivery of the wider IT strategy. Effective at driving short-term actions that are consistent with long-term goals. Motivated by long-term results.
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