Technical Lead

Job Title: Technical LeadContract Type: FTC - up to 18 months, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option availableSalary Range:£75,000 - £80,000Location: EastleighClosing Date for applications: Friday 20th SeptemberTechnical Lead: We are embarking the Broker-focused release of our Policy Administration transformation programme. This role will take the lead in providing technology solutions that deliver to our business case. They will ensure they are aligned with the overall programme objectives and key targets as set out by the programme and sponsor.

This is a wide-ranging role covering EIS, Integrations, Docs, IBMi, Data and environments. We expect them to consult with experts in the areas where they may not have the depth of experience.

We expect the Technical lead to work across the workstreams within the programme and with the wider IT organization to remove technology and engineering related impediments, resolve technical constraints and escalations, and be a champion for the technology strategy. This role will work with the architecture lead to agree and drive the designs for the programme whilst ensuring alignment with the overall strategy.

Main Responsibilities as Technical Lead:

• Accountable for end-to-end design, engineering, and quality of the technical delivery for the Springboard platform
• Leads on the creation of technical solutions for cross-workstream epics/stories, collaborating across the teams to ensure solutions are delivered to an agreed schedule and level of quality
• Provides technical leadership and engineering guidance to engineers in the programme resolving technical constraints and roadblocks faced by the workstreams
• Ensures that the technical solution follows architectural governance and supports on ensuring that technology choices and implementations align with technology roadmaps and architecture strategy
• Takes ownership to resolve technical impediments for the programme

Skills and experience you need as Technical Lead:

• Engineering knowledge for key technology components
• Previous experience of collaborating with architecture functions in order to deliver solutions aligned with technology roadmaps and architecture strategies
• Previous experience of managing and eliminating technical debt
• Previous experience of Scaled Agile practices and ways of working
• Use of development and release toolsets
• Use of lifecycle management tools such as Azure DevOps

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the Technical Lead role based in Eastleigh:

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Flexible Working - Smart employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health - Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities - Yoga, Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth - Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work - Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family - Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks' at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.

Benefits for Them - Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover

Getting Around - Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover

Get some Tech - Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave

About Ageas:We're one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service we provide to over four million customers.As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, a Stonewall diversity champion and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum role criteria). For more information please see our Diversity and Inclusion pages.Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we're always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we're open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.To find out more about about our Award Winning team and culture, please visit Careers at Ageas.

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