Senior Broker Systems Engineer

Senior Broker Systems Engineer

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing, thriving company with a huge presence in the insurance space.

Role Purpose:

As a Senior Broker Systems Engineer, you are responsible for the efficiency and effectiveness of development/configuration and delivery processes. Working within squads, you will play a key role in setting an example by ensuring quality solutions and a positive mindset.

This role can be based at either of our offices in Manchester, Stoke-On-Trent, or Peterborough.

Role Responsibilities:

• Undertake development/configuration and delivery of systems at a level appropriate to the role.
• Work alongside other key business functions including Trading, Pricing, Wholesale, Operations, Commercial, and Business Optimisation to ensure optimal commercial performance of the platform.
• Execute unit testing for all development/configuration and contribute to the planning of appropriate testing by the test team.
• Ensure all production and development/test platforms are robust and secure, with clear auditing of change, in accordance with the Change Management practices.
• Support the Scrum team in the successful planning and delivery of sprints.
• Coach/mentor Junior and Broker Systems Engineers to ensure the appropriate standards are met within squad working.
• Create training plans to fit the needs of Broker Systems professionals to enhance knowledge and skills.
• Provide 3rd line support for existing Policy Administration Systems within Atlanta.
• Produce suitable design proposals for all new development in association with the rest of the scrum team in line with the Product Design Authority process (PDA).
• Ensure all configuration documents are kept up to date inline with our config change procedure for audit trail purposes.
• Work with the Head of Broker Systems, Broker Systems Consultant, and Principal Broker Systems Engineers on the delivery of work set as part of the overall strategy for Broker Systems.
• Deliver new configuration components and documents to the agreed levels of quality and in the agreed timescales to ensure project and other change success.
• Provide reliable estimates of the effort required to develop new systems and functionality.
• Follow best practices in development and unit testing of configuration and documents builds to ensure minimal defect count in both non-prod and prod environments.
• Provide input to the analysis process to avoid re-work and re-specification of systems mid-project.

Skills and Experience Required:

Essential:

• Understanding and experience of the software development life cycle, agile methodology (especially Scrum).
• Good knowledge and experience using HTML, Velocity, CSS, and Microsoft applications.
• Strong knowledge and experience of technical configuration of policy administration system(s).
• A passion for quality and a continuous improvement mindset.
• Good experience in developing and mentoring Broker System professionals.
• Good awareness of Incident, Problem, and Change Management.

Desirable:

• Demonstrates a systematic, disciplined, and analytical approach to problem-solving.
• Good awareness of Cyber/Information/Data Security risks and the potential impact of these on the business.
• Use of issue management tools such as Jira, Service Now, and Confluence.
• Experience managing 3rd party suppliers.

Benefits:

• Starting with 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Opportunity for a yearly bonus
• Life Assurance 2x annual salary
• Collaborative, fast-paced working environment
• Hybrid Working
• Modern, vibrant offices

If you are interested, please apply with your up-to-date CV or email (url removed) for more information.