Product-Driven Engineer: Digital Platform & Cloud

Irish Life Group Services Limited; Watford; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Company pension

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Job summary

Canada Life UK is seeking an exceptional Engineer to join our Digital Product Team. You will own and ship software with a strong product mindset, focusing on customer outcomes and real-world impact while modernising our IT estate and leveraging cloud and automation.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers and users to solve problems, design reliable systems, and deliver high-quality software in a production environment.

Qualifications

• You come from a genuine product background and have worked in product-led teams that own outcomes for real users.
• You are genuinely customer-centric and seek direct contact with users, using research and experiments to validate ideas.
• You think in terms of impact and outcomes, comfortable with product metrics and analytics.
• You collaborate with product managers and designers, shaping what we build, not just how we build it.

Responsibilities

• Engage fully in the development lifecycle of applications and tools, contributing hands-on from coding to reviewing and releasing to production. Partner closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders, and stay connected to real users, so that what we build genuinely solves their problems.
• Focus on outcomes, not just output. Help the team frame problems around customer and business value, validate ideas with experiments and feedback, and measure the impact of releases so we can learn quickly and continuously improve.
• Take ownership of personal learning paths, continually acquiring new skills to enhance team solutions and individual performance.
• Implement and refine DevOps practices, balancing responsibilities between development and operations, while actively reducing technical debt and enhancing the automation and reliability of applications.

Skills

Product mindset

Customer focus

Agile

CI/CD

Azure cloud

C# development

Unit testing

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

GitHub Actions

Octopus Deploy

Job description

Canada Life UK is seeking an exceptional Engineer to join our Digital Product Team. You will own and ship software with a strong product mindset, focusing on customer outcomes and real-world impact while modernising our IT estate and leveraging cloud and automation.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers and users to solve problems, design reliable systems, and deliver high-quality software in a production environment.