Technical Lead UK Insurance (Hybrid, Contract)
Adesso Belgium4 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day technical leadership, direction, coding standards, and engineering best practices to software teams.
- Translate solution architectures and business requirements into detailed technical designs and delivery plans.
- Remain hands-on through prototyping, code reviews, and resolution of complex technical issues.
- Lead development of cloud-native applications, integrations, and data solutions.
- Guide integration of insurance platforms covering policy administration, claims, billing, and customer portals with wider systems and third-party services.
- Mentor and coach engineers while building collaborative, capable teams.
- Ensure solutions meet security, resilience, performance, regulatory, and UK insurance expectations, including FCA and data-protection requirements.
- Work with third-party suppliers and delivery partners to maintain technical quality and alignment with internal standards.
- Support technical governance through design reviews, technical debt management, and documentation.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend practical improvements to delivery and customer outcomes.
Requirements
- Extensive experience as a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or Senior Developer in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong hands-on modern software-engineering experience, with Java as a key strength and experience in API and integration design.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including cloud security, networking, and cloud-native design.
- Proven experience leading teams delivering scalable and resilient solutions, including legacy-to-modern migrations.
- Insurance experience and understanding of products, policies, claims, distribution channels, and customer journeys are advantageous.
- Experience with pricing and quotation engines, data enrichment, and unit, integration, and automated testing is desirable.
- Experience with insurance platforms such as Guidewire or Duck Creek is desirable.
- Strong stakeholder-management, communication, and influencing skills, including explaining technical decisions to non-technical audiences.
- Relevant certifications are highly desirable.
- Strong written and spoken English.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Contract role.
- Opportunity to work with experienced consultants on technically significant insurance transformation projects.