Technical Lead (App)

Royal London; Manchester, City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal London is seeking a Technical Lead to manage the design, development, and operation of our platform. The role involves leading technical teams and ensuring platform performance while driving innovation. Ideal candidates will have extensive cloud experience, good communication skills, and a passion for technology. Join us in a hybrid working environment and enjoy competitive benefits including annual leave, pension matching, and private medical insurance.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Up to 14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Expert in application development techniques and methods.
• Experience managing and mentoring technical teams.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage the technical roadmap and oversee platform capabilities.
• Provide problem management and incident resolution for the platform.
• Lead with recruitment of permanent and flexible resources.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Organizational skills

Technical mentoring

Education

Broad knowledge of IT

Experience with cloud infrastructure, especially Azure

Tools

Azure Integration Services

Job description

Job Title: Technical Lead

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh / Alderley Park

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 7th 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 smooth operation of our platform capabilities.

You will deliver development and test services for one of our platforms. You will be responsible for tool selection, vendor management and the technical roadmap and running the platform for one or more Royal London platform capabilities ensuring continuous improvement in availability, currency, and commerciality. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with a strong technical background and a passion for problem-solving to contribute to the growth and success of our organisation. As you will be a key technical advocate for the platform capabilities.


This is a progressive role, joining the Integration and Data Platform team, as the Tech Lead for Integration. Modernising our Integration Technology to a hybrid cloud environment is a key part of our core technology strategy at Royal London and this role will be key to the development, implementation and run of our Integration-Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) as well as ownership of our legacy integration technology.


About the role

• You will provide problem management and incident resolution capability (production support) for the platform you are responsible for.

• Build trusting relationships with key stakeholders and internal customers.

• Provides expertise to their team on the methods and tools needed to deliver change through the specialist platform.

• Ensure required technical upgrades and maintenance are scheduled, working closely with relevant 3rd party vendor(s).

• You will manage the team's performance against key outcomes and deliverables and measures quality against agreed internal benchmarks.

• Responsible for managing the performance of 3rd party vendor(s) against contractual obligations and SLAs. As well as identifying opportunities to leverage new capabilities within the platform to add value to the business and our customers.

• Builds trusting relationships with key stakeholders and internal customers.

• Inputs to financial planning and portfolio shaping activities across the Group. Will lead with recruitment of permanent and flexible resource.

About you

• Will have sound, broad knowledge of IT. Be an expert in application development techniques and methods. In-depth knowledge of application design and development best practices.

• Experience of managing and mentoring technical teams, both workload and people leadership will be an advantage, as this is a people leader and a technical leader role.

• Knowledge and experience of working with cloud infrastructure, with Azure being an advantage.

• Ability to apply specialist knowledge to solve complex problems.

• Strong organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise and multitask in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience of successfully leading technical evaluations.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Knowledge of Integration technologies will be an advantage, such as Azure Integration Services.

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 to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging.

We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.