Location: London
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time and Hybrid (2/3 days a week in the office)
MS Amlin is part of MS&AD, a global top‑10 insurance group, comprising four distinct businesses: Global Reinsurance, Lloyds Franchise, Local Specialty Insurer, and Business Services. MS Amlin Business Services (MS ABS) supports the organisation through Sourcing and Supplier Management, Legal, HR, Facilities Management, IT, Risk Management, Compliance, and Finance. Our vision is to be a trusted partner and solution provider of choice.
This role will be responsible for the design and delivery of the Software Engineering Services in support of the delivery of MS Amlin IT Products and Applications. The role takes accountability for setting the development standards, driving continuous improvements, ensuring standards are being followed, and collaborating with internal teams and service partner(s) to build capabilities required to enable the value delivered by IT Products to business customers of MS Amlin Business Services.
About The Job
What you’ll spend your time doing:
- Define and execute the software engineering vision, roadmap, and standards aligned with MS Amlin’s IT transformation goals.
- Lead and mentor a team of software engineers across application support and development, predominantly using Microsoft technologies.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with IT Business Partner and Product Owners to review and improve the SLDC lifecycle and route to live
- Define and implement Software Engineering guardrails and standards, facilitating input of other IT function heads including CTO, CISO, business aligned Heads of IT and Head of Infrastructure.
- Implement a framework with the IT Product Owners to assure that solutions and services provided to the business are of high quality, efficiently delivered, meet agreed business needs and satisfy the control requirements of a regulated business.
- Engaging with Service and IT Product Owners to align on service expectations and priorities – cooperating on action plans to respond to business feedback
- Build and manage relationships with suppliers of Software Engineering resources to provide a resourcing model that can flex as demand changes and allows specialist services to be acquired rapidly when needed.
- Produce and continuously improve operational metrics, KPIs and KRIs that give insight into application run and change services and drive efficiency and effectiveness of the function.
- Supporting ITIL processes – knowledge, incident, change and problem management
- Represent the software engineering function in governance forums and strategic planning sessions.
You’re going to enjoy this job if you also enjoy…
- Working to develop others as part of community
- Monitoring the technology landscape to position emerging tech within a business context
- Working in a matrix environment to collaboratively deliver successful IT outcomes
- Can see through complex legacy constraints and focus on the future
What we are looking for:
Core Technical Skills:
- Expert level C# and .Net Core / .Net Framework
- Advanced Angular (TypeScript, HTML, CSS)
- Understanding of backend solutions and SQL server
- Experience with design patterns and microservices
- CI/CD pipelines and tooling (e.g. Azure DevOps, GitHub)
- Experience working cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
- Strong understanding of Agile and Waterfall delivery models
- Understanding of TDD, DevOps and modern testing practices
You will also bring:
- Experience in building and leading Software Engineering functions in an internal and outsourcing model
- Confidence leading technical discussions and influencing stakeholders at all levels
- Experience in delivering enterprise scale, full stack applications
- The ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Strong sense of ownership and operating with quality first mindset
- Experience in modernising legacy technology platforms and maintaining engineering roadmap
We are stronger together because of our common interests and rich differences. You may be the strength we didn’t know we needed. Believe in yourself, and click apply today!
What Can You Expect From Us?
- Competitive Base Salary
- Performance Related Discretionary Bonus
- Holiday: 28 days core annual leave, and you can buy up to 5 days
- Pension: A minimum 2% employee contribution plus 7% MS Amlin contribution (9%) up to a maximum of 5% employee contribution plus 13% MS Amlin contribution (18%)
- Private Medical: cover for yourself. Family members/dependants can be added
- Flex Fund: £1,000 (pro-rated based on start date) to spend on flexible benefits
- Life Assurance: 5x annualised base salary
- Bank Holidays: To support the diverse backgrounds and beliefs of our team, we offer employees the flexibility to exchange bank holidays for alternative dates that better reflect their personal, cultural, or religious preferences.
Each one of us is unique because of our backgrounds, what we have learned so far and how we express that. Establishing an inclusive attitude helps us, organisationally, to ‘think outside the box’ because it calls on that diverse range of ideas, perspectives and lived experiences.
We commit to continuing our work towards a more diverse and inclusive future by recognising that our business, our teams and every colleague has a part to play in driving the positive change we all want to see.
Our values demonstrate our commitment to providing an environment in which each and every colleague is respected for who they are and what they can contribute to the business, regardless of nationality, race, ethnicity, religion/faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, socio-economic background, sex or age.
