Technical Lead, Underwriting Tech

Liberty Specialty Markets; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Specialty Markets is seeking a Technical Lead in London to guide architecture, design and delivery across our technology portfolio. You will partner with Architects, Product Owners and Developers to drive high-quality solutions and continuous improvement.

The role focuses on hands-on leadership, scalable design, and collaboration with global teams, within an Agile environment. Permanent role based in London.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years in a Technical Lead, Solutions Engineer or similar role.
• Proven experience delivering in Agile environments with strong design and coding capabilities.
• Experience with Python and cloud-based deployments (AWS/Azure).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation and test-driven development.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across design, development and delivery teams.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects and Developers to shape solution design.
• Lead architecture discussions and ensure alignment with high-level designs.
• Mentor team members and drive improvements in development processes.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Agile

Python

DevOps

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

REST API

CI/CD

Jira/Confluence

SQL

Git/Version control

Education

BSc/BA in Computer Science/Engineering or related

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git

Job description

Role Title: Technical Lead

Division: Distribution & Underwriting Portfolio

Department: Technology

Location: London

Type: Permanent

About the Role

As a Technical Lead you will be responsible for providing technical leadership and guidance to ensure we are developing strong strategy, design and development engineering skills across the organisation. You will partner with Architects, Delivery Leads, Product Owners, Developers and Testers to identify tools and platforms that improve our ability to continuously deliver quality to our customers.

About the Department & Team

Led by the Chief Information Officer, delivers innovative solutions and capabilities that leverage our technical expertise, business understanding and partnerships to enable market-leading performance across the organisation.

Global Technology teams collectively deliver innovative solutions and capabilities that leverage our technical expertise and business understanding and partnerships to enable market-leading performance world-wide. The team is made up of Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Application Support, Development & Testing expertise who deliver day to day 'Business as Usual' support, enhancements, and new applications. The Portfolio supports the Claims and Distribution business teams via strong partnerships. The applications in scope are used in offices from Latin America to across Europe and the Middle East, through to Lloyd's China. The Team works closely with other portfolios, US based Global Risk Solutions teams and Central IT Teams including Development, Testing, Change Management and Incident Management. Liberty follow Agile practices globally.

Key Responsibilities

Act as the Technical Lead, responsible for:

Solution Design

• Understand the individual application projects and products to refine the existing detailed designs (based on the high-level design considerations and transition states) to a sufficient level of detail for translation into technical deliverables
• Collaborate with Product Owner, Architects and Development teams to develop the solution design, aligning detailed designs with the high-level design and escalating any deviations
• Work closely with software architects, challenging their decisions and collaborating with them to optimise technical designs and translate them into technical deliverables
• Lead the decision-making process with all levels of CIO and business teams, as well as on individual project teams and make recommendations to effectively implement project requirements

Business Customer Journey

• Supporting business customer journey mapping by highlighting technology implications and considerations

Technology Capabilities & Standards

• Provide application design and programming expertise and guidance to IT professionals involved in the development and enhancement of business applications
• Work with IT functional areas to identify, propose and implement new technologies as solutions to business needs, based on strategic direction and priorities
• Aligning the detailed designs with the wider GRS & Liberty Mutual technology framework and standards
• Create technical documentation for development solutions, future reference and reporting

Supporting the Portfolios

• Work with agile development teams to build and enhance a growing software platform and provide technical leadership throughout the technical design and sprint process and ensure the team delivers high quality work that aligns with the strategic standards within the global organisation
• Become a technical advocate improving communications with developers and have a good understanding of their challenges
• May be 'hands-on' and mentoring, including recommending and implementing improvements in the development process and conducting peer reviews of developer's code if required
• Support the team in working towards continuous integration and continuous deployment, work to remove technical impediments raised by the team and proactively upscale relevant issues

Adherence to all relevant regulatory requirements forms part of your role, and the demonstration of behaviours as set out in the Conduct Risk Policy, as they relate to your role, is core to Liberty Mutual commitment to placing customers at the centre of our business and behaving with integrity. LM expects you to understand your responsibilities relating to all regulatory and internal requirements, and to proactively demonstrate compliance with these requirements and behaviours at all times. These requirements include Solvency II, fair treatment of customers, Financial Crime, Data Protection, Conflicts of Interest, and Whistleblowing

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience (a minimum of three years) as a Technical Lead, Solutions Engineer or similar role, working within Agile frameworks and associated architectures, design, coding languages and testing & deployment tools, including the following:
• Python rating models e.g. hyperexponential (hx)
• CI/CD pipeline build & deployment tools
• Cloud experience (AWS & Azure) and serverless code deployment
• API integration experience, REST preferred
• Understanding of event driven architecture.
• Different AWS deployment methods
• Experience in using Jira & Confluence
• Experience in identifying and translating functional and non-function requirements into high level solution options
• Familiar with design thinking, behaviour and test-driven development/familiarity with test-and-learn approaches
• Experience of SQL database
• Knowledge of containerised deployments and optimisation techniques & tools
• Experience of working with wider project teams including Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Business Analysts and Testers
• Experience of producing technical support documentation
• Experience of writing technical specifications/User Stories
• Experience of working within the full development lifecycle i.e. development, unit testing and release management
• Experience of source code repositories, branching and version control systems e.g. GIT
• Resourcefulness, attention to detail and troubleshooting aptitude
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field desirable

Key Performance Indicators

• Adoption of new technology and capabilities to business customers
• Able to achieve and demonstrate a balanced view and agreed development approaches between Architects, Development Team and Product Owners
• Delivery of high quality, fully tested software changes within agreed Sprints
• Recognised as a technical authority within the development team
• A high level of accuracy for estimating stories and tasks
• Minimal coding errors found during SIT & UAT
• Smooth transition of changes from development to production
• Compliance with the organisation’s control policies and procedures

About our Organisation

Liberty Specialty Markets and Liberty Re-Insurance is part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, a leading global insurer. We offer a breadth of world-class insurance and reinsurance services to brokers and insureds in all major markets.

Our people are key to our success. That is why Put People First is one of the five Liberty values which unite us as a global organisation. We bring this to life for our colleagues through:

• Offering a vibrant and inclusive environment and committing to their career development.
• Promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Our Inclusion Matters framework and employee-led networks strengthen the diversity of our workforce and our inclusive environment.
• Reinforcing that collaborating together to share our unique perspectives help us make better decisions, deliver innovative solutions and pursue our ambitious goals.
• A supportive culture, which includes promoting a healthy work-life balance and working flexibly.

For more information, please follow the links below:

https://www.libertyspecialtymarkets.com/gb-en/careers/working-for-us

https://www.libertyspecialtymarkets.com/gb-en/careers/diversity-inclusion-wellbeing/diversity-and-inclusion