Software Engineering Manager

Location
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London

Contract Type
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Permanent

Work Pattern
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Full Time and Hybrid (2/3 days a week in the office)

MS Amlin is part of MS&AD, a global top‑10 insurance group, comprising four distinct businesses:
Global Reinsurance, Lloyds Franchise, Local Specialty Insurer, and Business Services. MS Amlin Business Services (MS ABS) supports the organisation through Sourcing and Supplier Management, Legal, HR, Facilities Management, IT, Risk Management, Compliance, and Finance. Our vision is to be a trusted partner and solution provider of choice.

This role will be responsible for the design and delivery of the Software Engineering Services in support of the delivery of MS Amlin IT Products and Applications. The role takes accountability for setting the development standards, driving continuous improvements, ensuring standards are being followed, and collaborating with internal teams and service partner(s) to build capabilities required to enable the value delivered by IT Products to business customers of MS Amlin Business Services.

• Define and execute the software engineering vision, roadmap, and standards aligned with MS Amlin’s IT transformation goals.
• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers across application support and development, predominantly using Microsoft technologies.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with IT Business Partner and Product Owners to review and improve the SDLC lifecycle and route to live.
• Define and implement Software Engineering guardrails and standards, facilitating input of other IT function heads including CTO, CISO, business aligned Heads of IT and Head of Infrastructure.
• Implement a framework with the IT Product Owners to assure that solutions and services provided to the business are of high quality, efficiently delivered, meet agreed business needs and satisfy the control requirements of a regulated business.
• Engage with Service and IT Product Owners to align on service expectations and priorities – cooperating on action plans to respond to business feedback.
• Build and manage relationships with suppliers of Software Engineering resources to provide a resourcing model that can flex as demand changes and allows specialist services to be acquired rapidly when needed.
• Produce and continuously improve operational metrics, KPIs and KRIs that give insight into application run and change services and drive efficiency and effectiveness of the function.
• Support ITIL processes – knowledge, incident, change and problem management.
• Represent the software engineering function in governance forums and strategic planning sessions.

• Working to develop others as part of community.
• Monitoring the technology landscape to position emerging tech within a business context.
• Working in a matrix environment to collaboratively deliver successful IT outcomes.
• Can see through complex legacy constraints and focus on the future.

• Expert level C# and .Net Core / .Net Framework.
• Advanced Angular (Type Script, HTML, CSS).
• Understanding of backend solutions and SQL Server.
• Experience with design patterns and microservices.
• CI/CD pipelines and tooling (e.g. Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub).
• Experience working cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
• Strong understanding of Agile and Waterfall delivery models.
• Understanding of TDD, Dev Ops and modern testing practices.

• Experience in building and leading Software Engineering functions in an internal and outsourcing model.
• Confidence leading technical discussions and influencing stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience in delivering enterprise scale, full stack applications.
• The ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong sense of ownership and operating with quality first mindset.
• Experience in modernising legacy technology platforms and maintaining engineering roadmap.

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