Technical Lead

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esure have a fantastic opportunity for a Technical Lead to join our IT department. This is a full time permanent position, based in our Manchester office.

 The successful candidate will be responsible for the technical development of one or more of esures' products and leading the team of developers working on that product.

You will be working in a cross functional agile team and work closely with product managers and architects to ensure our products are both meeting business needs whilst also moving in the right technical direction.

Responsibilities

Accountable for the technical development and quality assurance of one or more of esures' products.

Designing and building digital and technical products to meet the needs of esures' customers and internal staff

Support Product Managers and Delivery Managers in producing roadmaps and estimates.

Ensuring that the team has the right mix of technical skills and resources to support the allocated products from both and development and support viewpoint.

Managing a group of developers and ensure they are all aligned to the technical direction of the product and working well as a team.

Ensure teams are able to work effectively by having a productive working environment.

To recruit additional team members where necessary in line with esure processes.

Coaching these developers and taking responsibility for developing their capabilities and careers.

Lead by example by building digital and technical products (50% of your time should be coding).

Implementing APIs to technical products to enable internal and external use

Building up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment.

Working with product managers and architects to define the technical direction for the products you are supporting

Taking part in 2nd-line support of applications and platforms, including occasional support outside of office hours

Promote the adoption of Agile within the technical teams for use in delivery projects and support tasks.

Skills/Experience

Management and coaching of technical staff

Strong experience building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of the relevant programming languages for your stack

Strong experience of database programming, ideally with the relevant database technologies for your stack

Technical design skills and previous responsibility for the technical direction of products you've worked on

Good estimation skills and able to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience

Experience working on technical projects within a cross functional team

Experience of implementing code quality practices in teams such as continuous integration, unit testing and peer reviews

Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux

Strong knowledge of the use of version control systems such as subversion or git

Proven ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques

Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites or mission critical line of business systems

Benefits

33 days annual leave (including bank holidays), rising with length of service

Festive Bonus

Annual bonus, part of profit share scheme

Refer a friend scheme, up to £1,000

Employee discounts on esure products

Opportunities for career progression

Contributory Pension

Life Assurance

Long Service Awards

Employee Assistance Programme