Location
Worcester, Worcestershire | United Kingdom
Job description
Open GI is a leading software development company and a trusted partner to the general insurance industry. Based across the UK and Europe, our support and development services make us a truly diverse organization that offers a range of IT solutions to insurance brokers, insurers, and managing general agents.
It is our mission to be both the Technology Partner and Employer of Choice to the UK General Insurance market. Our people are placed at the heart of this and diversity, equality and inclusion are central to everything we do.
We know the key to achieving success is to enable a positive, inclusive, and collaborative working culture, and, as part of our commitment, we have signed up for a number of pledges and programmes designed to support and nurture our people. No matter where you sit or which team you are a part of, we want you to know that you contribute in helping us to shape where the company will be in the future. We would love for each employee to be able to talk with pride about our company and, most importantly, consider Open GI to be an inclusive, fun and fulfilling place to work.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Software Engineering team, where you as technical lead will work with our experienced team of Engineers, Business Analysts and Quality Assurance to develop and deliver high-quality software for the Commercial Insurance market.
This fast-paced and dynamic area of the insurance domain needs a responsive, modern and configurable software platform, and Open GI’s suite of products offers a comprehensive solution. Our products are built by the team using modern engineering principles, programming languages, and technical practices to produce well-crafted quality software.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join and set the technical direction and standards for this evolving and fast-paced team. It will enable you to leverage your knowledge and expertise working on a variety of technology stacks.
Our Multi-tiered ASP.NET Web Application uses C#, MVC and the latest versions of .Net core and the .Net framework. We design around a microservice-based architecture partially hosted in both private cloud and Azure, including Azure Kubernetes, Application Insights, Azure API Management and Blob Storage.
- Leadership: leading a cross-functional product delivery team in collaboration with the Agile Delivery Manager and the Product Owner / Business Analyst
- Ownership: capable of owning a whole system or sub-system within the platform.
- Coding: ability to write, maintain and design the business logic of a software application, the data or services requested are available, as well as create and maintain the core databases, data and application program interfaces (APIs) to other backend processes
- Architectural decisions: guiding the technical decisions within the team that shape the architecture over time and ensure its alignment to principles and technical strategy.
- Performance and scalability engineering: ability to assess, recommend, design, implement, optimise, and troubleshoot measures to ensure systems perform as needed.
- Legacy remediation: ability to operate in or around older systems, and devise and execute strategies for modernising and improving them.
- Agile and Lean principles: works with team to continuously improve their Agile approach by guiding and championing Lean and Agile principles for achieving quality, adaptability, speed and alignment.
What you’ll need to succeed
Experience
- Proven software development experience alongside technical leadership experience
- Working within a cross-functional delivery team
- Supporting their code running in a production environment
- Supporting, mentoring, and developing people
- Working with evolving architectures
- Extreme Programming methods (desirable)
- Building cloud-native applications (desirable)
Aptitudes
- Drives to outcomes: focuses on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve them.
- Ownership and accountability: takes personal accountability and ownership for their work.
- Continuous improvement: advances by ongoing, incremental improvement through continuous learning, questioning the status quo and trying out creative and novel ideas.
- Emotional Intelligence: recognizes, understands, and manages their own emotions and recognizes the emotions of others.
- Improving CI/CD practices: suggests improvements to existing practices in the team so that there is an uplift in the quality of the product.
Mission and Values
Our mission is to be both the Technology Partner and Employer of choice for the UK General Insurance Market. Our values are central to this vision, as they represent how we collaborate how we work together in synergy and continually deliver for our customers:
- Accountability: We take personal pride in finding solutions and achieving results
- Innovation: We lead the market by being proactive, product-led and forward thinking
- Teamwork: We work collaboratively, recognising and celebrating success
- Trust: We build trust on integrity, transparency and respect
We are looking for an individual who embraces our values in their actions, decisions, communications and processes to inspire positivity and, ultimately, exceptional performance.
Benefits package
- Salary of £60,000-£65,500 per annum depending on skills and experience
- Company pension
- Bonus opportunity
- Life assurance and critical illness cover
- Cycle to work scheme
- Perkbox – an exclusive platform offering a wide range of discounts and benefits
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum, increasing to 26 days per annum after three years of service & a holiday purchase scheme
- A hybrid approach to work
- Opportunity for a more flexible approach to start, finish, and lunchtimes to allow you to better manage events outside of work
- Social clubs - whether you’re into your cycling, crafts, or other hobbies, we have a number of groups at Open GI where individuals who enjoy the same pursuits can get together
- Wellbeing – wills at work scheme, employee assistance programme and mental health first aiders
To apply for this role please click the apply button and send us your covering letter and CV.
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£60k - £65.5k per annum
