Technical Lead

We are looking for an innovative, broadly experienced all round developer with demonstrable business acumen and team leadership skills, to act as the main technical point to drive forward technical solutions as required for our Private Lines division (Private Car and Commercial Vehicle).  Much of this will be web based and / or mobile solutions.

The Technical Lead requires direct working relationships with key business owners, their proxies and project managers responsible for driving forward a particular business division

A successful candidate may be more highly front end or more back end experienced – which is OK, but you must have actively contributed to complex product development solutions with full engagement across multiple areas of technical specialism so is able to fully understand the roles, relationships and dependencies that each of each of these disciplines characterise.

 

Job Title: Technical Business Lead

Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Location: Liverpool City Centre, Hybrid working available

Salary: £70,000-£85,000 DOE

 

What you will be doing:

• Developing new and enhancing existing user-facing solutions
• Providing technical guidance, decision making and leadership of a delivery team comprising product owners, BA’s, PM’s, front end devs, back end dev, database developers, digital analysts, QA technicians
• Ensuring DevOps Epics, pbi’s, tasks, feature flagging, Assurance criteria and all testing strategies align with company standards
• Ensuring system are well documented and tested for resilience / failover / auto scaling as specified
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Ensuring high quality software product delivery to timescales with reliable estimates and actual effort recorded
• Work with multiple internal stakeholders to ensure common understanding of technical approaches to architecture and implementation
• Collaborating with all other technical teams proactively and with consideration of priorities and workloads, working collaboratively in a multi disciplinary team to reach team goals
• Ensure mandated ‘core systems’ upgrades are appropriately managed
• Liaise with 3rd parties as appropriate depending on product requirements
• Provide BAU bug handling, hot fix deployment as and when required
• Putting security and performance at the heart of all products and processes

 

What we are looking for:

• Capable of advising on modern, secure, technical solutions to achieve product owner goals
• Highly proficient in either front end or back end modern technology tooling and coding standards, especially react, react Native, Next JS, C# dot Net, Event driven systems, Azure Devops, SOLID and clean architecture patterns
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Backed C#, dotNET, VS Core development
• Thorough understanding of front end typescript frameworks and core principles
• Solid understanding of modern specifications when developing components.
• Experience with the React Material UI Framework and an eye for design and understanding UI/UX practices
• Experience working with REST APIs and webhooks
• Knowledge of Docker and Docker Compose
• Strong development experience in microservice based enterprise architecture, SOLID principles, clean architecture, Azure service Bus, RabbitMQ, Mass transit, MediatR
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, OAuth etc
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Understanding of popular front-end development tools such as Yarn, Webpack, Vitjs, StoryBook, Jest, Eslint, Prettier, Husky, etc.
• Good awareness of logging and alerting strategies and tooling (e.g. loki/Grafana)
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git
• Good understanding of Google Adwords, GLCID’s, Tag Manager for tracking conversion
• Solid experience of CI/CD pipelines in DevOps

 

 

About Acorn Insurance

With over 40 years of experience, Acorn Insurance is a specialist provider dedicated to helping individuals secure motor insurance across the UK. We proudly serve more than 50,000 customers, ensuring they find policies that meet their needs and provide the peace of mind that comes with high-quality cover.

At Acorn Insurance, we offer comprehensive training and continuous in-house coaching. You'll receive in-depth, FCA-regulated industry knowledge and all the tools necessary to grow your career with us.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to fostering a culture where everyone feels respected and valued. As a Disability Confident Level 1 and Level 2 employer, we ensure our workplace is accessible and inclusive, encouraging our people to bring their best selves to work every day.

The Acorn Group has been recognised as a Great Place to Work for 2024/5. A record number of employees participated in our survey, overwhelmingly highlighting our welcoming and supportive atmosphere as an excellent place to build a career. We are committed to continuous improvement and have ambitious plans for 2025.

 Why Acorn Insurance?

Acorn Insurance want to give you more than a job, we want to give you a purpose and a career. So, what can we offer you as an employer? Some of the "your tomorrow" benefits you will receive include:

Wellbeing:

•  Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement starting at 31 days and potentially increasing to 35 days per year depending on grade & length of service (including bank holidays)
• Enhanced paternity pay and 16 weeks full maternity pay.
• Colleague Assistance programme offers a suite of wellbeing services such as:

• • 6 Free Counselling sessions per year
  • Unlimited access to a telephone councillor 24/7
  • Access to a free 4-week programme of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with a trained therapist mentor.

•  Network of internal qualified mental health first aiders are available to provide support to colleagues.

Financial:

• A core level of life assurance with the option to increase cover via salary sacrifice and add your spouse/partner
•  Ability to access your earnings before payday via Dayforce Wallet.
• Company pension scheme
• Refer a friend scheme with a £250 bonus for every colleague recommended on passing their probation period.
• Access to a flexible benefits platform including an annual flex pot allowance to spend on over 15 benefits of your choice.
• Ability to give back. You can opt into donating money to charity to climate positive organisations directly from your salary.

 

Reward, Recognition and Culture:

•  Long Service Award paid on 5,10- and 15-years’ service
• A reward and recognition hub to celebrate and reward colleagues and peers.
• Consistent and engaging company events including company awards, competitions and charity fundraisers.
• Budgets for department leaders to use for social and engagement events.
  
  Please visit out website to view more of our excellent work benefits!

 

 All roles are subject to DBS and Financial checks, any offer made will be conditional until checks are completed to a satisfactory standard.

Unfortunately, due to the length of training and complexity of the role, we can only accept applications from candidates who have at least one year remaining on their (Graduate/ Post study work) visa. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorships.

At Acorn, we are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive work environment. We recognise that candidates may have specific needs and are happy to consider reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process and working environment to accommodate individual requirements. Whether it’s modifying equipment, adjusting working hours, or providing additional support, we aim to ensure all employees can perform at their best. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please let us know during the application or interview process, and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

Web-UI-UX Design, IT Project Management, Enterprise Software Implementation & Consulting, General-Other: IT-Software Development, Network and Server Administration, Software-System Architecture, Software-Web Development, Systems Analysis - IT

£70,000-£85,000 DOE