Technical Lead - Enterprise Services

General

Job Title: Technical Lead (ESS) - Engineering
Division : Information Technology

Reports To : As per Beazley's organisation chart
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 are 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 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.
Utilising 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.
The Technical Lead is responsible for:
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

Overall health 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.

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 corevalues 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 promote 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. This may include, amongst others, Beazley's underwriting control standards, Beazley's claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management.

Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system. These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups.

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
The candidate will have experience in building large scale, eventually consistent, enterprise systems, utilising multiple interaction modes beyond just HTTP.
Must have:
Experience of building hardened / secure systems

Expert in modern cross-platform .NET (6 and above)

Experience of Event Sourcing / CQRS patterns

Understanding of Asynchronous systems / Eventual Consistency / Message Buses

Strong test automation experience covering unit tests, integration tests, non-functional, contract testing etc.

Knowledge of business re-engineering principles and processes

Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have:
Advantageous to have hands-on experience of Azure in a security hardened environment

Beneficial to have knowledge of Infrastructure As Code (preferably Terraform)

Blazor experience would be helpful but not required

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,

Is motivated by long-term results.