Lead Engineer - Cloud and API Platform

Company Description

• Join a team of experts, and be a part of our collaborative culture 
• We value flexibility, and give our people choices to balance work-life commitments 
• Our modern offices are centrally located, with an onsite gym 

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Dai-ichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empowered to create better products and services.  

Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise.  

Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections and exclusive learning opportunities. Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance. 

So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally-enabled leading insurer. 

Job Description

As a Lead Engineer – Cloud and API Platform you will be joining our Cloud and API Platform team to help our customers and partners whilst building sustainable digital platforms and leading a market uplift in our adoption of Cloud. Working closely with product owners, senior leaders, partners and other IT teams, you will manage dependencies and remove impediments to effectively deliver project features and on-going operational support. 

What will you be responsible for? 

• Translating business objectives into streams of work, aligning technology and business strategy 

• Lead TAL developers and engineers for a successful API Gateway implementation. 

• Providing technical direction to teams and customers, with a view to inform business strategy and deliver technical solutions 

• Providing advice and thought leadership to ensure successful design and implementation of technology strategies 

• Working closely with Architects to define Architecture patterns and best practices. 

• Authoring and applying appropriate integration designs to an integration solution 

• Working with the Cyber team to implement and define security principals. 

• Working closely with product owners, IT stakeholders and other leaders to deliver initiatives and products utilising agile methods 

• Developing and maintaining processes and practises essential to quality and traceability 

• Fostering a culture of ownership, innovation and quality in development activities 

• Experience in coordinating, planning, and implementing all identified requirements to ensure that they align to strategic objectives and that business results are met 

• Write programming code to develop solutions to complex problems 

• Ensure health, security, cost-effectiveness, reliability and resilience of cloud applications and APIs through testing 

• Managing operational requirements with the team including incident management and minor production updates 

• Empowering and supporting product owners and delivery teams to invest in application health, balancing application and platform ownership responsibilities with delivery 

• Empowering staff to take accountability for delivery, risk and issue management and assisting the team to improve delivery velocity 

• Building strong relationships with internal stakeholders, third parties and other delivery, infrastructure and operational teams to enable efficient delivery 

• Be a Cloud Evangelist, engaging with developers, architects and senior management to increase awareness and adoption of Cloud across TAL while demonstrating quantifiable business value. 

Qualifications

What are we looking for? 

• At least 10 years experience in a Lead Engineer or comparable role, delivering innovative products and continuous improvements to customers 

• A demonstrable and long-running track record of authoring integration solution designs which meet business objectives and which have been successfully implemented in Production 

• Expertise in authoring the appropriate (business focused) integration design from competing design options 

•  Must be able to explain a complex technical issue or process with minimal jargon, in plain language. 

• Experience in designing and implementing Azure hybrid cloud solutions 

• A strong integration technical background with experience of Azure Integration technologies such as Functions, Service Bus, storage accounts 

• A strong background in the principles of API Management and technical/ experience with Azure API Management 

• Experience in API design and RESTful API standards 

• Experience in designing and implementing different levels of traceability in complex, distributed integration solutions e.g BAM (Business Activity Monitoring), W3C Distributed Trace 

• Additional technical background with experience of .Net, .Net core, SQL Server, NoSQL. 

• Strong familiarity with DevOps principles (including automated build and testing) and familiarity with tools such as Azure DevOps 

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills when debugging and troubleshooting issues in a complex distributed integration environment 

Additional Information

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be:  

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index  

• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change  

• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.    

We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community.  

Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you. 

Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

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