IT Development Lead; Senior Developer

IT Development Lead (Senior Developer)

Scottish Friendly

Our technology team sits at the heart of the organisation, ensuring that internal and external users benefit from the most efficient and user‑friendly applications and services. As Senior Developer within the IT Application Delivery and Support Teams, you will provide technical leadership, design and develop coding solutions to support Project and Support initiatives across the business, leading technical insight and solution design of complex problems.

• Lead the design and development of IT projects and initiatives within Scottish Friendly.
• Contribute to and recommend improvements to existing processes that utilise our core Policy Admin Systems.
• Work closely with internal and external business stakeholders at a senior level, alongside IT Application delivery teams to understand, test and design new developments often which are complex in nature.
• Present complex analytical concepts to all levels of the business.
• Work independently with minimal guidance.
• Provide training and mentorship to other colleagues in support of team and individual development.
• Develop and maintain technical IT solutions in support of business objectives recognising the need for cost‑effective delivery while balancing the cost of technology ownership.
• Liaise with external software providers to deliver optimal design, delivery of cost‑effective solutions while ensuring third‑party deliverables meet an acceptable quality level.

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact with all teams within the organisation.
• Desire to learn, develop and ability to multi‑task.
• Desire to develop and deliver team‑level improvements including the support/development of other team members.
• Initiative and problem‑solving skills, being able to work through a problem, try different solutions.
• Experience with in financial services and knowledge of Life/Pensions/Investment products.
• Experience of regulatory projects within Life/Pensions.
• Experience of working with Sonata (essential).
• Awareness/experience of workflow solutions.
• Experience of working with MGM Talisman (desirable).
• Knowledge of T‑SQL/P‑SQL.
• Understanding of data manipulation and analysis using SQL and Oracle tools and writing/maintaining stored procedures in support of our development community.
• Understanding of T‑SQL/PL‑SQL and/or Development experience in these technologies.
• Experience of developing skills in SSIS.
• Understanding of XSL.
• Understanding of Java and APIs desirable.
• Good working experience using Git Hub and CI/CD pipelines.
• A logical thinker with initiative and ability to problem solve.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Information Technology

Location:

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom