Technical Lead
Date:
11 Jan 2025 Location:
Macclesfield, GB Company:
Royal London Group Job Title: Technical Lead Contract Type: Permanent Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based Closing date: 27th January 2025 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 applications. You will deliver development and test services to our business, responsible for tool selection, vendor management, and the technical roadmap for one or more pensions applications ensuring continuous improvement in availability, currency, and commerciality. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with a strong technical background and a passion for problem-solving to contribute to the growth and success of our organisation. This is a progressive role, joining the pensions applications teams, delivering scalable solutions to both our customers and employees. You will have the opportunity to work on a variety of initiatives across pensions, working with stakeholders across the group. This role contributes to our values of strengthening our customers' mutual choice by providing sustainable technology solutions. About the role You will provide problem management and incident resolution capability (production support) for the platform you are responsible for. Build trusting relationships with key stakeholders and internal customers. Provide expertise to your 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 deliverables and measure 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. Input to financial planning and portfolio shaping activities across the Group, leading recruitment of permanent and flexible resources. About you Sound, broad knowledge of IT. Expert in application development techniques and methods, with in-depth knowledge of application design and development best practices. Knowledge and experience working with cloud infrastructure. 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. 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.
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Date:
11 Jan 2025 Location:
Macclesfield, GB Company:
Royal London Group Job Title: Technical Lead Contract Type: Permanent Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based Closing date: 27th January 2025 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 applications. You will deliver development and test services to our business, responsible for tool selection, vendor management, and the technical roadmap for one or more pensions applications ensuring continuous improvement in availability, currency, and commerciality. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with a strong technical background and a passion for problem-solving to contribute to the growth and success of our organisation. This is a progressive role, joining the pensions applications teams, delivering scalable solutions to both our customers and employees. You will have the opportunity to work on a variety of initiatives across pensions, working with stakeholders across the group. This role contributes to our values of strengthening our customers' mutual choice by providing sustainable technology solutions. About the role You will provide problem management and incident resolution capability (production support) for the platform you are responsible for. Build trusting relationships with key stakeholders and internal customers. Provide expertise to your 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 deliverables and measure 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. Input to financial planning and portfolio shaping activities across the Group, leading recruitment of permanent and flexible resources. About you Sound, broad knowledge of IT. Expert in application development techniques and methods, with in-depth knowledge of application design and development best practices. Knowledge and experience working with cloud infrastructure. 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. 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.
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