Capability Lead Digital Engineering

at  TOWER Insurance

WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING WITH TOWER

At Tower, we live and breathe our values - they are at the heart of every interaction. Our people come first, we pride ourselves on creating a diverse and inclusive space that allows our people to thrive. Encouraging everyone to bring their whole selves to work, we aim to represent the diverse communities we work in and with.
We also have a plan to lead our industry forward into a more customer-centric future with innovation and disruptive thinking, as a unique Kiwi and Pacific insurance provider operating for over 150 years, with roots all the way back to Dunedin.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

Tower is out to change the insurance game and deliver beautifully simple and rewarding experiences, that our customers rave about - every time. You are eager to learn and grow both yourself and your peers. You are self-driven and enjoy being a part of a culture of empowerment over control.
As a capability lead, you are a go-to leader for our squads and play a crucial role in shaping the future of our engineering strategy including architecture, technology, and practices in our digital chapter. You are balancing time also staying hands-on by leading discovery, solution designs and implementing change as a part of critical projects and BAU in our platform team.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL ALSO BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING:

• Experience leading, training and monitoring more junior staff.
• Hands on experience architecturally designing and delivering customer centric solutions spanning multiple squads.
• 10 years’ experience as a hands-on engineer in technologies such as .NET, Typescript, SQL, Docker, Jenkins, React and Microsoft Azure
• 5 year’s experience working in scaled Agile delivery environment demonstrating successful stakeholder, delivery, and risk management
• Implementation of new technology and practices in a scaled agile environment
• Technical expert in architecturally designing and implementing Pipelines, .NET Microservices, React Micro Frontends and Design Systems in Azure
• Ability to lead change in technology, standards, process and behaviour across multiple squads collaboratively and in-line with strategic goals
• Firm understanding of architecture best practices within digital engineering
• Ability to identify delivery risks and provide effective mitigations early
• Critical but constructive thinking and an ability to make the right decision based on long-term business value
  Making sure we are doing what’s right; if you feel comfortable doing so, please let us know early in the process if there are any diversity needs, we can meet or make reasonable adjustments to enable you to shine. If you would like to note which pronouns you use at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. We are proud holders of the Rainbow and DV Free Ticks which are important to us.
  We are seriously committed to diversity and inclusion and welcome any successful candidate to get involved in one of our Inclusion Network Groups, which will help us to better understand and meet the needs and interests of our increasingly diverse workforce.