Technical Lead
Technical Lead – Digital Underwriting London or Manchester | Hybrid (2 days per week in office) | Permanent Up to 100K + Bonus + Benefits We are currently looking for a Technical Lead to join a global reinsurance and specialty insurance organisation.You’ll play a central role in the design, development, and delivery of cloud-native solutions that underpin a large-scale Digital Underwriting platform used across the US market.What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead the design and development of scalable, secure, and high-performance services for Digital Underwriting use cases, including pricing engines and rule-based workflows.
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable TypeScript / Node.js code, adhering to best practices.
- Design and deliver cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure, with a strong focus on containerised services (AKS), App Services, and Functions.
- Use Databricks to support data modelling, transformations, analytics, and pricing models.
- Build, manage, and optimise CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
- Apply cloud security, performance, and cost-optimisation best practices in a regulated environment.
- Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and raise overall engineering standards.
- Lead and contribute to technical design workshops with product owners, architects, data teams, and business stakeholders.
- Collaborate with globally distributed teams across the UK, US, and Germany.
- Strong commercial experience in software development with hands-on technical leadership.
- Advanced proficiency in TypeScript / Node.js.
- Solid experience delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure.
- Experience with containerised platforms (AKS preferred).
- Exposure to Databricks or modern data platforms.
- Proven ability to mentor engineers and lead by example.
- Confidence running code reviews and technical design discussions.
- Strong communication skills, able to translate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Insurance or reinsurance experience is beneficial but not required.