Technical Lead and Azure

As part of Endavas strategic partnership with WTW who provide data-driven insight-led solutions in the areas of people risk and capital were building dedicated software engineering teams to support WTWs Insurance Consulting and Technology Division.

WTWs Insurance Consulting and Technology business is a global leader in P&C Life and Health insurance software and advisory services with over 1700 colleagues across 35 markets. More than 1000 insurers worldwide trust our combination of advisory insight and advanced software to help them navigate complexity and drive sustainable growth.

Joining Endava youll work exclusively with WTW to help embed AI-enabled engineering practices modern ways of working and deep insurance technology expertise contributing to the next generation of products and services for insurers worldwide. Working as part of a dedicated team established through a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model youll collaborate closely with WTW while building your career as an Endava employee supporting the long-term success of this strategic partnership.

About the Role

In this role you will play a key role in the modernisation and evolution of a strategic business-critical cloud platform. This platform executes large-scale insurance modelling workloads across the organisation dynamically provisions Azure compute resources supports computationally intensive jobs submitted by multiple business applications and provides a shared cloud platform for analytical services.

The role combines hands-on technical leadership with coaching mentoring and strategic influence. You will influence architecture engineering practices cloud adoption and developer experience while contributing to the replacement of legacy technologies the rebuilding of UI portals the modernisation of backend services the adoption of Infrastructure as Code the migration of workloads to Azure Container Apps and improvements to deployment automation and operational resilience.

You will work closely with architects product teams platform engineers and business stakeholders to deliver scalable cloud-native services establish engineering excellence and transform the platform into a modern Azure-native capability while gaining deep knowledge of cloud platform engineering and distributed systems. You will be expected to lead by example balancing deep technical expertise with a passion for developing people improving engineering culture and driving innovation.

What Success Looks Like

In this role you will:

• Deliver meaningful modernization outcomes across strategic platforms.
• Raise engineering capability through coaching mentorship and leadership.
• Improve platform reliability security scalability and maintainability.
• Establish sustainable engineering standards and practices.
• Enable faster and more predictable delivery through automation and DevOps improvements.
• Drive innovation through pragmatic adoption of cloud and AI technologies.
• Build a culture of continuous learning collaboration and engineering excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Lead modern cloud-native platform design development and modernization.
• Set engineering standards architecture patterns and development frameworks.
• Provide technical leadership across teams roadmaps and initiatives.
• Assess emerging technologies and guide adoption where they add value.
• Improve scalability maintainability performance resilience and security.
• Guide legacy transformation cloud migration Domain-Driven Design event-driven architecture and modern engineering practices.

Platform Modernization

You will help lead initiatives including:

• Modernize legacy applications services pipelines and release processes.
• Migrate workloads to cloud-native Azure services.
• Expand Infrastructure as Code adoption.
• Improve reliability observability operational excellence and maintainability.
• Evolve the platform towards distributed event-driven solutions while reducing technical debt.

Software Engineering

• Design and develop high-quality maintainable software.
• Write clean testable well-documented code.
• Review code and provide constructive technical feedback.
• Contribute to architecture reviews and design discussions.
• Improve performance reliability security and delivery practices.
• Ensure solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Build operate and design services on Microsoft Azure.
• Work with platform and DevOps teams to improve infrastructure deployment monitoring and operations.
• Adopt Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Support operational readiness production stability incident response and continuous improvement.

Engineering Excellence & Quality

• Champion engineering best practices across the development lifecycle.
• Drive automated testing across unit integration end-to-end contract and performance testing.
• Promote secure-by-design and quality-first engineering.
• Improve observability through monitoring logging telemetry and analytics.
• Support Site Reliability Engineering practices including resilience testing failure analysis chaos engineering and operational excellence.

Leadership Coaching & Culture

• Lead mentor and coach engineers at different experience levels.
• Support career growth and build team capability.
• Foster an inclusive collaborative high-performing engineering culture.
• Help teams adopt modern practices and ways of working.
• Contribute to technical communities knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders and engineering leadership.

AI & Innovation

• Assess emerging technologies including AI and Machine Learning.
• Identify practical ways AI-assisted development can improve engineering effectiveness.
• Promote responsible secure adoption of new technologies where they add measurable value.

Security & Compliance

• Embed security into architecture design and development.
• Work with security teams to meet organisational standards.
• Support secure coding vulnerability management and compliance with governance risk and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications :

Technical Expertise

Strong experience with:

• C#
• Core
• REST APIs and distributed systems
• Cloud-native application development
• Microsoft Azure
• Containerized workloads
• Event-driven architectures
• Microservices architectures
• SQL and data-driven applications
• Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Git-based development workflows

Azure Experience

Experience with several of the following:

• Azure Container Apps
• Azure Batch
• Azure Functions
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Storage
• Azure App Services
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Monitor
• Application Insights

Engineering Practices

Strong understanding of:

• Software architecture
• Design patterns
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Automated testing frameworks
• Contract testing
• Observability
• Reliability engineering
• Secure software development
• Performance optimization
• Scalability and resilience design

Leadership Experience

Demonstrable experience:

• Leading technical teams and initiatives
• Coaching and mentoring engineers
• Driving engineering standards and best practices
• Influencing technical direction and decision making
• Collaborating with senior stakeholders
• Delivering complex technology modernization programmes

Preferred Skills and Experience

Experience with:

• Angular
• React
• Redis
• SignalR
• SQL Server
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• .NET Aspire
• Playwright
• xUnit / NUnit
• Pact / Contract Testing
• Datadog
• Kusto Query Language (KQL)
• Enterprise SaaS platforms
• Large-scale platform modernization programmes

Additional Information :

For this position the gross base salary starts from PLN 21 533 PLN Gross per month (full-time employment contract) determined using objective and gender-neutral criteria including skillset experience and role responsibilities.

Our benefits offering typically include private medical insurance dental plan and glasses reimbursement. The figure represents the initial remuneration we expect to offer for this role and does not limit the right to equal pay for women and men performing the same work or work of equal value. All remuneration and benefits decisions are based on non-discriminatory gender-neutral criteria and in accordance with the Polish Labour Code amendments implementing Directive on pay transparency we do not request or consider candidates current or past remuneration during the recruitment process.

At Endava were committed to creating an open inclusive and respectful environment where everyone feels safe valued and empowered to be their best. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds experiences and perspectivesbecause we know that inclusive teams help us deliver smarter more innovative solutions for our customers. Hiring decisions are based on merit skills qualifications and potential. If you need adjustments or support during the recruitment process please let us know.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time