IT Development Lead

Are you an experienced Senior / Lead Developer ?

Do you have experience working in financial services, Life & Pension or savings & investments ?

Would you like to work for a Scottish based company who are going through a really interesting transformation ?

They are Glasgow city centre based and its hybrid working (2 days a week in the office)

You will be responsible for the provision of technical leadership, design and development of coding solutions for them.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead the design and development of IT projects and initiatives
• Contribute to and recommend improvements to existing processes that utilise their core Policy Admin Systems.
• Work closely with internal and external business stakeholders at a senior level, alongside IT Application delivery teams to understand, test and design new developments often which are complex in nature.
• Present complex analytical concepts to all levels of the business
• Provide training and mentorship to other colleagues in support of team and individual development
• Development and maintenance of technical IT solutions in support of business objectives recognising the need for cost effective delivery while balancing the cost of technology ownership.
• Liaise with external software providers to deliver optimal design, delivery of cost effective solutions while ensuring third party deliver to an acceptable quality levels

Skills and experience:

• Desire to develop and deliver team level improvements including the support/development of other team members
• Initiative and problem-solving skills, being able to work through a problem, try different solutions
• Experience within financial services and knowledge of Life/Pensions/Investment products
• Experience of regulatory projects within Life/Pensions
• Awareness/experience of workflow solutions
• Knowledge T-SQL/P-SQL
• An understanding of data manipulation and analysis using SQL and Oracle tools and writing/maintaining stored procedures in support of our development community
• Understanding of T-SQL/PL-SQL and/or Development experience in these technologies
• Experience of developing skills in SSIS
• A logical thinker with initiative and ability to problem solve