Acurity - Lead Engineer

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Work with experienced and skilled colleagues who support and inspire one another to achieve collective success

Thrive in a workplace where we tackle challenges together, solve problems, and celebrate each other’s successes

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer,we’vebeen protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Daiichi Life,we'redriven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.

Together with our Partners,we’rehelping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities.

Work with passionate,brightand capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together,we'rereimagining insurance.

So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer.

This role is open to both Sydney and Melbourne based candidates.

The Lead Engineer is responsible for providing technical leadership and direction within a high-performing Technology Delivery team, supporting the ongoing transformation towards continuous delivery and enhanced customer outcomes. This role leads the development and support of Group, Investment and Retirement products hosted on the Acurity platform, while ensuring the delivery of high-quality, well-engineered solutions aligned to business objectives. Working collaboratively across delivery teams, the Lead Engineer will champion engineering standards, drive continuous improvement, and foster a culture of innovation.

The successful candidate will bring strong technical leadership, the ability to rapidly develop expertise across complex systems and interfaces, and a proactive approach to working within an agile delivery environment.

In this role you will:

• Provide input and thought leadership into the systems technology roadmap for the platform as well as the quality standards and processes for the platform.
• Provide technical direction to the Pod to deliver suitable technology products that enable desired business outcomes in the required timeframe and align with the platform roadmap in a continuous
• improvement environment.
  
  Identify and articulate business and technical risks and issues. Take action to resolve issues, mitigate risks, minimise run costs and minimise technical debt.
• Configure and code changes and interfaces for the Acurity systems, and train others to be able to do the same.
• Perform, design, codeand test-reviews and embed built-in quality practices to ensure products delivered by the Pod meet appropriate quality standards throughout development.
• A percentage of the Lead Engineer’s time will also be performing sprint tasks and
• developing software as per the criteria above.

• IT or a related field qualification
• 10+years as a software developer
• 5+ years development with Acurity
• In-depth industry knowledge of Superannuation, Investment and Retirement products
• Agile environment experience
• Iteration Management experience
• Ability to effectively facilitate meetings to obtain commitment & resolve issues.
• Experience providing thought leadership
• Desireable:
  
  Acurity Services and Azure Service Integration
• Life insurance experience
• Experience working with Atlassian Jira and Confluence
• Automation testing experience

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce.

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