Chapter Lead - Remote, United Kingdom - Admiral

Admiral

Verified Company

Remote, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Excellent opportunity to join our Data Tribe at Admiral as Chapter Lead.

The Data tribe is responsible for creating and maintaining a cloud-based platform for Admiral Group.

The tribe works across a significant number of Admiral's strategic initiatives including Pricing, Fraud, Customer Contact and Digital, employing a wide range of disciplines including data warehousing, web development, API development, Feature Engineering and Machine learning.

We are looking for a Software Engineering Chapter Lead who can manage a team of Software Engineers focusing on Full Stack Engineering delivering Web Based Applications.

Your chapter will be working across the tribe and you will help steer and support technology strategy and direction.

Your primary responsibility would be geared towards building up Full Stack Engineering capabilities however you may wish to get involved with product delivery if it helps achieve the former.

You will need strong people skills as you will be training, mentoring, and guiding Engineers at different stages in their career and helping them with their career development and progression.

You will support the squads by providing technical advice and guidance. You will be an experienced sounding board for technical problems and an escalation point for decisions. Alongside this, you will be contributing to the technical roadmap.

Responsibilities

Responsible for providing line management duties for all Squad technical members within the relevant Chapter with a view to focussing on coaching and mentoring techniques that align to both agile principles and Admiral values.
Contribute to the vision, strategy, and roadmap of Software Engineering to drive steep impact for our products and work with the engineering community to deliver them.
Responsible for technical resource recruitment, retention and overall onboarding process for all Squad level technical members of the relevant Chapter.
Responsible for supporting both personal and technical skills development for all Squad level technical members enabling greater Squad operational performance.
Responsible for providing effective career development for all Squad level technical members of the relevant Chapter.
Responsible for effectively administrating Chapter member's compensation, benefits and promotion processes
Responsible for enabling Squads to meet their expected outcomes by supporting them in problem identification, root cause analysis, and decisionmaking.
Responsible for identifying, teaching, or sponsor the required software and hardware engineering skills needed to support the development of highquality code, components, systems, and solutions
Responsible for supporting all Chapter members in living the following values in everything they do: productivity, quality, transparency, and openness over internal politics
Responsible for serving as a senior coach and advisor to Agile Squads. Remaining close enough to the Squads to add value and to be a competent manager, while staying far enough away to let them problemsolve on their own

Knowledge and Experience Required

Extensive knowledge and experience with Line management through both coaching and mentoring techniques
Knowledge and experience in Scrum development practices, using associated tools for testing and continuous integration & deployment
Experience with Frontend web development using HTML, CSS and a JavaScript/Typescript framework, preferably Angular 2+.
Experience with developing Microservices preferably using a Java framework such as Spring Boot.
Experience with SQL and NoSQL Database technologies.
Knowledge and experience with Google Cloud Technologies.
Knowledge and experience with DevOps practices.
General Awareness of Application and Data Security practices.
Knowledge of identification and management of specific engineering, design and testing standards and practices that comply with internal organisation IT governance and architectural standards while performing within a heavily regulated environment
Knowledge and experience in the use of tools such as: Jira, Confluence etc.

Interview Process

There will be a 2 stage interview process for this role. Interviews will be via MS Teams.
Interviews will take place throughout March and April.

Salary, Benefits, and Work-Life Balance
At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first.

We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we're consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK.

We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays).

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