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About the Role

We are seeking an exceptional Lead Engineer to join our technical leadership team and champion outstanding, user-centred experiences. You will be one of several Lead Engineers in Digital who work together as a collaborative technical leadership team, each bringing a particular area of specialism. Yours will be UI/UX, accessibility, and front-end performance. This role is ideal for a broad, T-shaped engineer who leads from the front and brings real depth in user-facing product engineering. You will work at every stage of the product lifecycle, from discovery and design, through implementation and testing, to operational support, keeping the customer experience at the centre throughout.

Responsibilities

Designing, building, deploying, and supporting software across front and backend stacks, with particular craft on the front end
Leading the design and delivery of accessible, responsive, component-oriented user interfaces that meet recognised accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 AA)
Championing front-end performance, optimising load and runtime experience and keeping our Core Web Vitals healthy
Configuring and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines and test automation to facilitate a seamless route to production for Azure hosted solutions
Working with your fellow Lead Engineers to set shared technical direction and engineering standards, contributing your UI/UX specialism, and coaching other engineers to raise the bar across the team
Work as part of Digital's technical leadership team, a group of Lead Engineers who collaboratively set direction and own our engineering standards, with each Lead bringing a particular area of specialism.
Coach and mentor other engineers, lead by example with hands-on contribution, and help teams make sound architectural and design decisions.
Extend your influence beyond your immediate team as an active member of our engineering community.
Engage fully in the development lifecycle of applications and tools, contributing hands-on from coding to reviewing and releasing to production.
Lead the craft of our user interfaces, collaborating closely with designers, product owners, and stakeholders to deliver accessible, performant, and intuitive experiences that customers love.
Keep customers at the heart of what we build. Get close to real users, use research, usability testing, and experiments to validate hypotheses, and measure the outcomes your work delivers so the team can continuously improve.
Make inclusive, accessible design a default so our products work for the widest possible audience.
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

Expert in building modern, component-oriented front end applications using frameworks and libraries, with a deep appreciation of UX and genuine craft for user-facing product work.
Designs and builds inclusively, with a solid understanding of web accessibility and recognised standards such as WCAG 2.2 AA.
Cares about front-end performance, optimising load and runtime performance and using measures such as Core Web Vitals to keep experiences fast, smooth, and responsive.
Genuinely customer-centric: seeks direct contact with real users, uses research, usability testing, and experiments to validate ideas, and measures success through customer outcomes.
Has led engineering work through influence: setting technical direction, mentoring and coaching engineers, and raising standards across a team, all while staying hands-on.
Proficiency in a variety of development technologies, languages, design patterns, and tooling.
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.
Understanding of the principles behind CI/CD is more important than the specific tooling.
Has worked in an environment that deploys regularly to production.
Sound grasp of modern engineering principles and prefers working in small iterations that optimise feedback.
Awareness of security principles and best practices to ensure secure software delivery.
Committed to continuous learning, staying abreast of evolving industry technologies and trends.
Extensive experience working within an agile environment.
Owns change all the way to production.

Skills

UI/UX
Accessibility
Front-end performance
Full lifecycle software development
User-facing products
Accessible, high-performing, and genuinely delightful user experiences
Cloud
Automation
Product lifecycle
Discovery
Design
Implementation
Testing
Operational support
Responsive, component-oriented user interfaces
WCAG 2.2 AA
Core Web Vitals
CI/CD pipelines
Test automation
Azure hosted solutions
Microsoft / Azure
C#
SOLID
CLEAN code
GitHub Actions
Octopus Deploy
Agile environment
Security principles

Location

United Kingdom

Work Type

Flexible working arrangements
Part time

Experience Level

Lead Engineer
Senior

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary

Benefits

Generous pension
Bonus scheme
Income protection
Private medical insurance
Life assurance
Regular personal and professional development
Range of 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.
CLUK have ambitious plans to modernise their IT (Information Technology) 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.
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.