Focus Principle Engineer
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Job Description
Were 1st Central a market-leading insurance company utilising smart data and technology at pace. Rapid growth has been based on giving our 1.4 million customers exactly what they want: great value insurance with an excellent service. And thats the same for our colleagues too; we won Insurance Employer of the Year at the British Insurance Awards 2024 and our Glassdoor score is pretty mega too!
Were looking for a Principal Engineer for this hands-on technical role making use of .Net and Azure where youll be providing technical architecture leadership for a set of Focus technical products and services. The role will involve taking responsibility for determining the Focus technical direction in collaboration with Architecture and ensuring alignment to the overall Focus architecture principles following SOLID principles for maintainability and scalability.
Youll collaborate with solution architecture to give clarity and technical direction to engineers who will build solutions against the agreed designs. Whilst not having any direct people management responsibilities youll provide support coaching and mentoring to Focus engineers to ensure they deliver to the required quality and integrity.
We value flexible working arrangements so you can choose to work remotely or maybe you live within a commutable distance from one of our offices in Salford Quays Manchester Haywards Heath West Sussex or Guernsey and want to work in the office occasionally.
Core skills were looking for to succeed in the role:
A creative problem solver who thrives on creating simplicity out of complexity.
A passion for people and creating environments that enable others to flourish.
Resilient and comfortable prioritising in demanding situations.
Highly trustworthy and able to operate with integrity and discretion at all times.
Energetic and proactive will enjoy motivating others with your can do will do attitude.
Able to operate with minimal brief and a fast-moving set of changing priorities.
Ability to bring together multiple different views and perspectives to create agreed designs and solutions.
Hands-on experience in DevOps and/or Engineering roles
Beneficial - Azure certified
Beneficial - Other cloud platform certification
Good understanding of a service-based approach to technology including component service oriented and event driven architectures.
Whats involved:
Youll be responsible for creating or guiding the technical architecture and low-level design of technical solutions taking high level solution and enterprise architecture artefacts and translating them into workable designs and work packages
Youll drive forward and own the proactive monitoring of the products and services within your Value Stream
Youll participate in Enterprise planning events to support the delivery and planning of change ensuring that the high-level solution aligns to the business outcome
Youll hold overall accountability for the technical product delivery for your Value Stream in adherence with our internal governance obligations and in line with the Definition of Done
Youll be responsible for ensuring that speedy resolution of escalated priority incidents problems and changes for all Products and services within your value stream including addressing follow up actions and improvements
Youll be responsible for the quality of the overall Focus products ensuring that solutions are implemented effectively from a re-use and performance optimisation perspective
Youll be responsible for coding standards and low-level design for the Focus products that all engineers follow
Youll be responsible for the design and build of observability and quality by design into all Focus pipelines promoting self-testing pipelines that proactively identify processing issues or discrepancies
Youll carry out unit testing of own code peer testing of others code to ensure appropriate quality and will be responsible for completeness and integrity of solutions delivered on the Focus platform
Youll support the release process across your value stream and Enterprise providing expert guidance to team members during this activity
Youll be responsible for leading the SRE function within the value stream and participating in the on-call rota to support fix resolve issues 365/24/7 and adhere to the requirement and responsibilities of the on-call policy.
Youll take ownership for the creation of effective and appropriate architecture and design documents ensuring transparency and technical understanding for all Focus products
Youll coach and mentor Lead and Software Engineers
Youll comply with the requirements and act in accordance with the Group Code of Conduct and Fitness and Propriety policies at all times
Youll ensure compliance with Company Policies Values and guidelines and other relevant standards/ regulations at all times
Youll collaborate effectively with Architects Product Owners Lead Developers and Senior Management to ensure fit for purpose solutions and service
Experience & knowledge
Requires extensive experience of designing and building end to end software solutions
Excellent understanding of design patterns used in high throughput and availability cloud-based solutions.
Professional hands-on experience of Azure and other Cloud platforms.
Experience of C# .Net including dependency injection entity framework and unit testing.
Previously experience of migrating monolith on prem applications to microservices based azure platforms.
Experience of designing applications on cloud platforms (AWS Azure) with an understanding of containerisation (Docker Kubernetes) and serverless technologies
Working knowledge of UML software modelling techniques tools and languages in order to describe software and data in a standard format.
Exceptional at building strong effective relationships with people from different disciplines.
Experience of carrying out technical design and build activities using agile working practices (such as Scrum or Kanban).
Unit Testing Experience in writing unit tests for pipelines
Azure Cloud Knowledge and confidence in effective communication on Azure Cloud Subscriptions Resource Groups Subnet VNet Private Endpoints testing Firewall rues management on Azure platform components
Working knowledge of full stack solutions from SPA (ideally in Angular) to SQL databases.
Skills & Qualifications
A creative problem solver who thrives on creating simplicity out of complexity.
A passion for people and creating environments that enable others to flourish.
Resilient and comfortable prioritising in demanding situations.
Highly trustworthy and able to operate with integrity and discretion at all times.
Energetic and proactive someone who motivates others by their can do will do attitude.
Able to operate with minimal brief and a fast-moving set of changing priorities.
Ability to bring together multiple different views and perspectives to create agreed designs and solutions.
Hands-on experience in DevOps and/or Engineering roles
Beneficial - Azure certified
Beneficial - Other cloud platform certification
Good understanding of a service-based approach to technology including component service oriented and event driven architectures.
Behaviours
A customer-centric approach. Collaborate and partner with a variety of stakeholders
Ability to apply a product mindset
Self-motivated and enthusiastic
An organised and proactive approach
Ability to work on ones own initiative and as part of a wider team
Strives to drive business improvements to contribute to the success of the business
What can we do for you
People first. Always. Were passionate about our colleagues and know the best people deserve an extraordinary working environment. We owe it to them so thats what we offer. Our workplaces are energetic inspirational supportive. To get a taste of the advantages youll enjoy take a look at all our perks in full here.
Intrigued Our Talent team can tell you everything you need to know about what we want and what were offering so feel free to get in touch.
Employment Type
Full-Time
