Technical Architect - Admiral Pioneer

About Admiral Pioneer    

Admiral Pioneer is a new entity within Admiral Group with the objective of seeding, launching and scaling new businesses in areas of increasing societal importance. We are focusing on three significant domains:

• Mobility
• Future of Work
• Live to 101

These domains are long term growth areas for Admiral. We anchor around meeting customer needs and are focused on experimenting and proving new products, business models and partnerships through a discovery driven approach.

We aren’t an incubator, we are building a dynamic and energizing environment where we will provide all the excitement and freedom of a start-up, with the support and stability of an established organization. We want to recruit passionate business builders who look at the world and see huge opportunities to change it.

About the role

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Admiral Pioneer Studio. As the Technical Architect within Studio, you will be responsible for working with the technical teams and stakeholders across multiple Pioneer businesses to assist in driving forward business objectives whilst instilling technical best practice.

Strategy : Reporting to the CTO of Admiral Pioneer and working closely with the stakeholders within the Pioneer businesses, you will work to define and embed Pioneer technology and technical best practices within their technical teams.

You will define and adopt pragmatic principles, standards, and best practice design patterns for technology solutions to drive efficiency, flexibility, and growth.

Mentoring & Partnership : You will serve as a technical subject matter expert to business partners, understanding key business objectives and providing technology solutions options while ensuring compliance and adherence to promoted standards and strategic architecture blueprints.

About you

At work you will be comfortable generating alignment with business stakeholders using non-technical language.

You will have strong yet balanced views on the best technical approach to take to meet the businesses objectives.

You will want to build the best customer experience using both an internal tech team as well as external suppliers and will be versatile and adaptive to changing business and customer needs.

A natural problem solver, you will bring a creative approach to our collaborative environment.

Knowledge and abilities

• Have a track record of designing and building large-scale, cloud-based, highly available software platforms.
• Understand the power of contract first development and approach challenges using an API first mindset.
• Have demonstrated the ability to design complex systems in an iterative and evolutionary manner.
• Are passionate about enabling other developers through your leadership and driving teams to efficient decisions.
• Comfortable in getting your hands dirty as the need arises.
• Passionate about application of technology for building impactful solutions
• Have the ability to balance long-term objectives with urgent short-term needs
• Have a Bachelor's degree in a computer science or relevant experience

Experience

• A seasoned Technical Architect with deep knowledge of AWS
• Engineering background with competency in Java, Python and associated technologies
• Strong RDS and NoSQL datasource design
• Desirable – Snowflake experience
• Experience with serverless and microservice based architectures
• Strong knowledge of best practice design and integration patterns (Microservices, API, Event Driven Architectures, etc.)
• Understanding and experience of developing partner integrated (API) business solutions

Additional Information

Due to Covid the whole Admiral Pioneer team is working remotely. We will provide you with everything you need to work comfortably from home. 
We expect you to be working remotely for the foreseeable future, however, after it's safe to return to the office, we have days when the whole team comes together. You can choose how many days you can be in the office as long as we see your face from time to time.
 
Please submit your CV and portfolio (PDF or URL link) when applying for this role, only applications with a portfolio will be accepted. 

Interviews will be w/c 23rd August.

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons why we're consistently voted one of the Sunday Times’ Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.
You can also view some of our other key benefits here; https://admiraljobs.co.uk/employee-benefits/.
 
About Admiral

Admiral Group is a leading FTSE100 Financial Services company with a presence in eight countries. 

The company was set up in 1993 as a car insurance specialist, but since then the Group has expanded in other countries and other insurance verticals such as household and travel insurance, in loans, price comparison platforms, and has developed innovative products.
The Group has 7 million customers worldwide and employs over 11,000 people across its operations.

Admiral is a growth story with an enviable track record of strong financial performances, ROE consistently over 50%, a turnover of £3.5 bn, and a profit before tax of £520 m in 2019. Admiral’s philosophy is that ‘people who like what they do, do it better’ and Admiral is proud to offer an open culture where achievement is rewarded and recognised and where coming to work is exciting every day. In 2019, Admiral received a special award from ‘Best Companies to Work For’ as the only company to feature within their rankings since they began 20 years ago: a true testament to the Group’s culture.
 

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