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About the Role

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Engineer to play a key role in our dynamic cross-functional Digital Product Team, someone who thinks like a product person and cares deeply about customer outcomes and real-world impact. CLUK has ambitious plans to modernise its IT estate, looking to leverage the cloud and automation at every opportunity and change how we fundamentally deliver solutions, transitioning from a Project to Product approach. You will work at every stage of the product lifecycle, from discovery and design, through implementation and testing, to operational support, always with the customer and the outcome in mind.

Responsibilities

Designing, building, deploying, and supporting software across front and backend stacks
Working closely with product managers, designers, and real users to understand problems deeply before jumping to solutions
Configuring and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines and test automation to facilitate a seamless route to production for Azure hosted solutions
Developing and supporting environments up to and including production to ensure reliability and quality
Measuring the impact of what you build, and using that insight to help decide what to do next
Engage fully in the development lifecycle of applications and tools, contributing hands-on from coding to reviewing and releasing to production.
Partner closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders, and stay connected to real users, so that what we build genuinely solves their problems.
Focus on outcomes, not just output. Help the team frame problems around customer and business value, validate ideas with experiments and feedback, and measure the impact of releases so we can learn quickly and continuously improve.
Take ownership of personal learning paths, continually acquiring new skills to enhance team solutions and individual performance.
Implement and refine DevOps practices, balancing responsibilities between development and operations, while actively reducing technical debt and enhancing the automation and reliability of applications.

Requirements

You come from a genuine product background: you have worked in product-led teams that own outcomes for real users, and you are motivated by the value you create rather than the volume you ship.
You are genuinely customer-centric: you seek direct contact with real users, use research, usability testing, and experiments to validate ideas, and measure success through customer outcomes such as adoption, retention, satisfaction, and task success.
You think in terms of impact and outcomes: you are comfortable with product metrics and analytics, forming hypotheses, running experiments (for example A/B tests), and using evidence to decide what to build next.
You collaborate naturally with product managers and designers, and you are happy getting involved in discovery and in shaping what we build, not just how we build it.
You have developed modern component-oriented front end applications using frameworks and libraries and have a good appreciation of UX (User eXperience).
Proficiency in a variety of development technologies, languages, design patterns, and tooling. Our current tech stack is primarily Microsoft / Azure focused; solid C# is necessary.
Advocate of key principles such as SOLID and CLEAN code, applying to all areas of development. Keen to write code that is self-explanatory and easy to maintain.
We use GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy for our pipelines, but an understanding of the principles behind CI/CD is more important than the specific tooling you have used. You will have worked in an environment that deploys regularly to production.
You have a sound grasp of modern engineering principles and prefer working in small iterations that optimise feedback. You like to validate hypotheses via experiments.
You have an awareness of security principles and best practices to ensure secure software delivery.
You are committed to continuous learning, staying abreast of evolving industry technologies and trends, and are keen to share and contribute to our community.
You have extensive experience working within an agile environment; waterfall projects are a red flag to you.
You own change all the way to production, and the idea that a different team would test your work, or that it will not rapidly ship to production, does not sit well with you.
You enjoy working with others and contributing to technical excellence as part of an active community.

Skills

Full lifecycle software development
Product mindset
Automated CI/CD pipelines
Test automation
Azure
Data analysis
Analytics
Feedback loops
DevOps
Modern component-oriented front end applications
UX (User eXperience)
C#
SOLID principles
CLEAN code
GitHub Actions
Octopus Deploy
CI/CD principles
Security principles
Agile environment

Location

United Kingdom

Work Type

Flexible working arrangements
Part time

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary

Benefits

Generous pension
Bonus scheme
Income protection
Private medical insurance
Life assurance
Regular personal and professional development
Training
Opportunities to grow and develop

About the Company

Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies.
We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.
Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903.
We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.
Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.
Our culture is unique and incredibly important to us. We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers and community and helping others to build better futures.
Our blueprint behaviours shape and influence how we work, and are central to the relationships we have with others.
Every day we are encouraged to be more curious, own the outcome, face into things together and find a way forward.
We want colleagues to have rewarding careers with us so we invest in the development of our people, technology and workplaces.

Equal Opportunity

Building an inclusive workplace with a diverse workforce where everyone can feel they belong and achieve their potential regardless of gender, ethnicity or any other characteristic is a key commitment for us.
We are proud of the progress we’re making in DEI, and we continue for it to be a significant focus.
At Canada Life we believe in the power of great people from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives coming together to build better futures.
Emerging talent is crucial to our growth and creating an environment that continues to inspire us all.
We appreciate that everyone has different work and life responsibilities. We’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you.