Engineering Lead (London Area)

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Role: Platform Engineering Lead

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Client location – London / Leeds / Edinburgh, UK

Number of hours: 40 hours per week – full time (standard)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Platform Engineering Lead in a Large Insurance company in UK, who focusses on improving the flow of work together with building capability, improve time to market and support the delivery of the Platform OKRs.

Careers at TCS:

TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve – our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

The Role

As a Platform Engineering Lead you will work as a technical leader to drive strategy and deliver results for a large UK Insurance company.

Key responsibilities:

• Collaborate and be accountable to Client Platform leads in alignment with platform OKRs.
• Ensuring TCS teams are inducted and aligned to Client Ways of Working.
• Drive Technical Leadership, Engineering Excellence, Strategy and capability relevant to platform.
• Align with the feature teams in resolving technical impediments.
• Contribute towards delivery Governance aligning to the Client QBR, Big Room planning, Agile events and ceremonies.
• Champion Knowledge Share across and within labs.
• Support the NPS score measurement and improvements.

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Exposure to JavaScript framework with API/microservices background, cloud-native app development.
• Experience in developing modern tech apps, channel experience design and build.
• Prior experience in mentoring a large technical team and evangelising emerging tech practices and trends.
• Innovation, strategy and thought leadership.
• Experience in monitoring, measuring and improving engineering maturity amongst the feature teams.
• Public Cloud experience.
• Engineering Leadership to drive engineering culture among the team.
• Experience in driving engineering in “product based’ organisation and agile mindset.
• Experience in driving DevSecOps and Automation culture among the engineering team.

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

• Insurance Domain experience is highly desired.
• Tech Dependency management, stakeholder management skills and storytelling abilities.
• Tech Debt and Risk management.

Rewards & Benefits

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.

We believe in building and sustaining a culture of equity and belonging where everyone can thrive. Our diversity and inclusion motto is ‘Inclusion without Exception’. Our continued commitment to Culture and Diversity is reflected across our workforce implemented through equitable workplace policies and processes.

You’ll find a welcoming culture and many internal volunteering and social networks to join (these are optional). Our diversity, inclusion and social activities include 12 employee networks such as gender diversity, LGBTQIA+ & Allies, mental health, disability & neurodiversity inclusion and many more, as well as health & wellness initiatives and sports events and we sponsor the London Marathon.

We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.

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Next Steps

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