Technical Business Lead

at  The Granite Group

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.
This role 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.

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

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:

• 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)
• Additional Buy & Sell Holidays
• Company Sick Pay Scheme
• Company Paid Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Generous Company Pension Scheme
• Perk Box Online & High Street vouchers and discounts
• Fresh fruit Deliveries twice a week*
• £250 Refer a friend bonus.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Free eye test vouchers and a contribution towards the frames
• Free self-development & qualifications via Magpie Learning
• A comprehensive Mental Health support a wide network of mental health first aiders and free counselling sessions
• Free Hot Drinks*
• Regular Employment Engagement including ongoing competitions with fantastic prizes.
• Charity fundraising event