Job Type: Permanent
Build a brilliant future with Hiscox About us:
HISCOX is an international insurer specialized in the market of luxury goods & property, and high-end professional insurance. As experts in risk, we give people and businesses the confidence to realise their ambitions. With offices in 9 European countries, we have a very international staff and encourage a culture that fosters inclusion and collaboration, offering exciting opportunities for personal and professional growth.
In our Lisbon office we have the privilege of employing approximately 500 exceptional professionals representing 29 diverse nationalities. Despite our central location within the city, we recognize the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance. As part of our commitment to our employees' well-being, we provide a 35-hour workweek along with the option for a hybrid working schedule.
The Team: The London Market tech team is a modern, agile technology department seeking to work as closely as possible with our colleagues across the company to deliver true business value in an agile fashion. We are a group of engineers (software, data, quality), data scientists and agile practitioners. We organise ourselves into chapters according to these professional disciplines. You would be joining our quality engineering chapter.
The Role: The primary focus for this role is to be a key and influential member of our London Market Software Engineering with a focus on Software Engineering, offering dedicated support to our various Innovation squads as we create new "Cloud First" solutions to add value to the business.
There are key scrum ceremonies to attend such as daily stand up but the squad is responsible for the timing of these and the flexibility of the hours they work in a day. Coupled with hybrid working this should enable you to enjoy a comfortable work-life balance.
Key Responsibilities: Work collaboratively with stakeholders and your squad to deliver value
Mentor and coach less experienced engineers in the wider team
Support engineers with your expertise and opinions within your squad to drive forward delivery
Produce technical design for change or to support requirements
Work with engineers across squads to develop and evolve our architecture
Ensure code is peer reviewed, unit tested and delivered through automated pipelines all the way through to the live environments
Ensure your code is secure
Suggest ways for all engineers to work smarter
Person Specification: Must have skills:
C#
Working knowledge of Azure technologies – Azure Functions, Azure SQL Db, Azure Storage, Azure APIM, Azure Service Bus (topics & queues)
CI/CD Pipelines
Source Control/Branching Strategies
Unit testing
JSON
SQL
Graduate in a technical discipline.
Tech Stack: .Net
Azure Functions
Azure SQL Db
Azure Storage
Azure APIM
Azure Service Bus (topics and queues)
Blazor
Angular/AngularJS
Service Fabric (on prem)
Service Bus (on prem)
SQL (on prem)
WPF (on prem)
Training and support will be provided for areas of the tech stack that you aren't familiar with so if you have the "must have" skills, let's talk about your future career within our business.
Why Hiscox? Healthy work-life balance with our 35h/week and hybrid working system.
Holidays: 25 days + 2 Hiscox Days (Extra two Annual Leave).
Health insurance, gym allowance, pension plan etc.
After 5 years work 1-month sabbatical leave.
Team spirit with many opportunities to engage and an open culture.
Band: II
Business Area: Hiscox London Market
Work with amazing people and be part of a unique culture
#J-18808-Ljbffr