Senior Software Engineer

End Date

Friday 13 November 2026

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Job Description Summary

Level 4 will lead technical development and delivery at Team level. Will operate as Individual Contributors, who are specialists in particular technology areas and will be narrower and have deeper focus. Capable of accurate effort estimate for any change. At this level, typically, will be doing code reviews and mentoring junior team members and able to work unsupervised and lead on smaller engineering focused initiative.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Quality Engineer

Location: Hyderabad

Years of exp 08 to 12

Job Description:

Senior Software Engineer

• •Our Purpose:
• •For the Customers:

Support the Group’s and Protection growth ambitions through brilliant decisions and delivery of industry-leading Insurance and Protection services

For our People:

To build the collective capability of our platform community and improve collaboration and cross team learning in order to deliver on our Transformation technology vision by making it a great place to work where our colleagues feel valued, included and empowered to be the best versions of themselves.

About the Role:

You'll play critical role in designing solutions that can provide continuous flow of value to our customers and will be responsible for:

o Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams. Once agreed, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinning our Platform teams.

o Partner with Solution Architects & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies.

o You’ll provide analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery.

o Promote adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback.

o Technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises.

o Participate in Agile ceremonies, elicit requirements, shape & validate designs or prototypes that deliver customer outcomes that align to our target architecture.

o Leverage industry best-practise, frameworks, standards & policies in creating opportunities & value for our customers.

o Supplies critical technical feedback and key solution opportunities.

o Sets guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development across our Platforms.

o Provide oversight & champion built in quality, decoupled & modernised architectures.

o Support Product Owners & Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software & infrastructure currency risks or issues, offering options & recommendations on action planning & continuously ever-greening solutions/systems within the Platform.

o Support Product Owners & Engineering Leads on the technical aspect of activities linked with Platform financial estimation, spend or risk management processes in line with the platform roadmap.

o Strong technical skills with a good hands-on and working knowledge of microservice design patterns, containerised applications, infrastructure as code in containerised environments, embedding Dev Sec Ops principles to support delivery at scale and designing solutions at scale.

o Help develop our passionate people promote the architecture subject area through mentoring, coaching and participation in Agile ceremonies.

Could this be the right fit for me?

We need a leader in Software Engineer who understands the challenges of modern architecture.

o You’ll build a compelling strategic vision and will understand a wide array of technology implications including people and process, bringing this to your comprehensive view of design.

o You'll ideally have previous career experience in software or infrastructure engineering and will be well placed to define and sell your vision for Engineers, Architects, and Product Owners alike.

o You must be a keen and comfortable communicator who is happy working with a wide range of technical and non-technical colleagues.

o You would be able to produce high quality documentation tailored to the audience which would include senior stakeholders. As a role that can require demanding delivery timeframes, you will need to be self-organised and be able to proactively prioritise your time.

If this is you, come and join our inclusive, values-led culture focused on making a difference. Apply today, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

We're in search of someone who,

o Thrives in acquiring & applying findings to create customer & business value.

o Has experiences working in multi-disciplinary product, feature or platform teams.

o Is excited at the prospect of changing the status quo, inspiring change with new insights, ideas and encouraging experimentations or market research.

o Has established systems engineering or solution architecture experience & appreciation of software engineering methods such as Behaviour & Test Driven Development.

o Enjoys communicating & influencing collaborators with little or no technical knowledge, influencing their thinking on the art of the possible through technology.

o Can identify appropriate project, architecture, service or risk management methodologies that enable customer value realisation.

o Is excited to translate varied technology requirements into relevant solutions.

o Is well averse in defining solutions using Agile, Emergent & Intentional architecture methods.

o Has substantive experiences defining architectural runways or solution architecture roadmaps for inclusive systems which span adaptive infrastructure domains at Digital-scale.

o Has established experiences partnering with other collaborators such as Enterprise, Security, Data & Infrastructure architects to create customer value or address business problems.

o Holds proficient experiences leading activities associated with Architectural Governance, Risk Management or Compliance processes.

o Has appreciation for Architectural Frameworks such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, Software patterns or similar.

o Understands how & where third party products could be appropriate, knowledge of technology purchasing processes & best practise.

o Be a technical leader both within your team and outside, coaching and/or mentoring other engineers as appropriate.

o Work with the product and engineering leads to achieve the vision and customer outcomes for your Labs, through defining a strategy and designing solutions to deliver our target cloud architecture.

o Capable technical leader, who takes ownership of design and delivery and is willing to help grow and guide junior engineers towards appropriate target architectures.

o Strong architecture skills with a good working knowledge of microservice design patterns, containerised applications, infrastructure as code in containerised environments, embedding DevSecOps principles to support delivery at scale and designing solutions at scale.

o Strong communication and Leadership skills

Here's where you'll make a difference:

o Your contribution will be instrumental to our strategy of simplifying, modernising, and de-risking the Group technology landscape, ensuring value for customers and shareholders. This is a key role driving the long-term sustainability and integrity of the organisation.

o Our continued commitment to helping Britain recover means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses, and communities.

o Together we have a key role to play in shaping the b