Engineering Lead

Royal London; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mutual life and pensions company is seeking an Engineering Lead to oversee application development. This role focuses on technical leadership, managing vendor performance, and ensuring continuous improvement. The successful candidate will contribute to sustainable technology solutions while working with diverse teams to enhance customer and employee experiences.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Up to 14% employer matching pension

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Broad knowledge of IT and application development techniques.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage design, development, testing, and operation of applications.
• Enhance tool selection and vendor management.
• Ensure technical upgrades and maintenance.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Collaboration

Organizational skills

Job description

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Engineering Lead

Date: 24 May 2025

Location: Edinburgh, GB

Company: Royal London Group

Job Title: Engineering Lead

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 1st July 2025

We are currently seeking a highly skilled and motivated Technical Lead to join our team at Royal London. As a Technical Lead, you will play a crucial role in managing the design, development, testing, and operation of our applications.

You will deliver development and test services to our business, responsible for tool selection, vendor management, and the technical roadmap for one or more Royal London applications, ensuring continuous improvement in availability, currency, and value. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a strong technical background and a passion for problem-solving to contribute to our organisation's growth and success.

This progressive role involves joining the pensions applications teams, delivering scalable solutions for our customers and employees, and working on various initiatives across pensions with stakeholders across the group.

This role supports our values of strengthening our customers' mutual choice by providing sustainable technology solutions.

About the role

• Provide problem management and incident resolution (production support) for the platform.
• Build trusting relationships with key stakeholders and internal customers.
• Offer expertise on methods and tools needed to deliver change through the platform.
• Ensure technical upgrades and maintenance are scheduled, working with relevant third-party vendors.
• Manage team performance against key deliverables and quality benchmarks.
• Oversee third-party vendor performance against contractual obligations and SLAs, and identify opportunities to leverage new capabilities.
• Build relationships with stakeholders and internal customers.
• Contribute to financial planning and portfolio activities, including recruitment of permanent and flexible resources.

About you

• Broad knowledge of IT, expertise in application development techniques, design, and development best practices.
• Experience managing technical teams and workload.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to solve complex problems using specialist knowledge.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience leading technical evaluations.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings, and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise emphasizes an inclusive, responsible, enjoyable, and fulfilling workplace, underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values: Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We offer benefits such as 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, up to 14% employer matching pension scheme, and private medical insurance. See all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We’re an inclusive employer, valuing diverse backgrounds and cultures. Our diverse perspectives enhance our skills and are recognized and respected, regardless of background.