software engineer Bournemouth, England
Job description
As Development Engineering Practice Lead at LV= you will hold full observability of our in-house and outsourced development practices and adherence to our standards. This is a key role in the support and delivery of our LV= Technology Services transformation where you will lead and enable the transformation of the Engineering team.
Working closely with the Head of Engineering you will help shape Development Engineering strategy and standards.
This role will ideally be based on a Hybrid working pattern based in our offices in Bournemouth (ideally in the offices 2 days per week)
About you
- You are a subject Matter Technical Expert in Development Engineering.
- Experience in using agile development assessment matrices to assess development engineering skills and propose improvements
- Substantial experience and expertise in agile delivery techniques and methodologies
- Extensive experience and technical engineering knowledge of a broad range of platforms and web based/cloud formation and distribution, stretching across platforms, consumer products, emerging technology standards, and trends, including defining platform roadmaps and long-term strategic plans.
- Can clearly articulate data engineering concepts, and are able to demonstrate these through a deep level of experience and knowledge.
- The ability to make technical decisions by staying stay abreast of advancements in related technologies.
- Excellent technical judgement and decision making in the context of advancements in related technologies.
- You will possess excellent influencing and communication skills with a capacity to present, discuss, and explain issues coherently and logically, both in writing and verbally to internal, external and senior leadership stakeholders.
Details
- Accountable for the implementation of LV standards within engineering services
- Ability to enable the adherence and observability of the LV= standards to improve customer satisfaction and looking for ways to relentlessly improve
- Developing and maintaining the LV= Engineering Knowledge Base either directly or indirectly through influencing the outsourced engineering teams to self-document
- Sell the benefits and encourage adoption of improvements to development engineering both internally within LV= and to outsourced functions
- Actively encourage and foster Innovation
- Coach and mentor our in-house development roles for them to adopt DevSecOps practices.
- Identify and help to implement ways of monitoring, Process Time, Rework and Lead Time per team with a view to consistently report on Flow to enable all teams to see where they can improve
- Support training sessions or training platforms to broaden the knowledge and adoption of DevSecOps practices
- Develop and monitor OKR's showing the continuous improvement towards mastering DevSecOps practices
Why work for us?
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At LV= Life & Pensions you’ll find we thrive on the benefit of everyone’s differences. Whoever you are, whatever you are and in whatever way you identify, you’re welcome here. We’ll make reasonable adjustments to specific needs to make sure your individual requirements are accommodated as far as possible. Being totally committed to equal opportunities opens up massive benefits, not just to our organisation and people but also to our members and our products. We’re proud of our people, we only recruit and promote on merit.
Go on, bring your true self to LV=.
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Rewards and Benefits
This role is a Band C in the LV= Structure. To find out more about our bands, click to view our FAQ page here. We want you to love what you do that’s why we’ve put together a benefits package that recognises and rewards a job well done.
At LV= Life and Pensions, you’ll go above and beyond to do the right thing for our customers and we’ll reward you with an attractive, competitive salary and benefits package in exchange for your hard work.
- 30 days' holiday, with the option to buy up to 2 additional days
- A competitive pension for which LV= Life and Pensions will double match the amount you pay, up to 14% (please click here to read more about it)
- An annual bonus scheme based on company and personal performance
- Single cover private medical insurance which you can upgrade to family cover
- Flexible benefits - Cycle to work scheme/Health Assessment/Personal Accident Insurance/Critical Illness/Dental Insurance
- You’ll receive up to 20% discount on our life products for you and your immediate family.
- Group Life Assurance 4 x basic pay to your dependants, You’ll have the option to increase to x 8 times cover
- Group Income Protection, if a member of the Pension scheme and reached 5 years’ service
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) service for support through difficult times in your life
- Virtual GP service
- Shared parental leave
