Technical Lead (Employee Benefits)

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Technical Lead

A Technical Lead is a senior technical role within our organisation. Alongside implementing core business solutions, they play a role in enforcing technical excellence across our whole development team.

Working within the Microsoft ecosystem, this role involves collaborating with stakeholders, developers, and business change to ensure solutions are delivered to the designed specifications, whilst also being mindful of broader strategic initiatives. This role will also involve guiding developers through lower level technical decisions and ensuring best practices are followed throughout the development lifecycle.

Although this is a senior position encompassing management aspects, this role requires being hands-on day to day to ensure project delivery and technical excellence. This is a great opportunity for someone wanting to make a pivotal career move, being in an authoritative role whilst still leading from the front.

This role is based in our London office with a hybrid workstyle.

What does the role entail?

• Supporting Isio's broader development strategy, with a particular focus on programme delivery, documentation, and the use of a modular coding patterns. All utilising modern development standards & DevOps processes.
• Working within our Technical Authority to support and implement agreed ways of working processes relating to development.
• Collaborating with multiple teams consisting of internal and external members, based geographically throughout the UK and Europe, working both remotely and at our Isio UK offices.
• Driving Isio's testing strategy to speed up delivery and ensure development quality is of a high standard.
• Refining Isio's existing DevOps processes and ensuring they are consistently implemented across all projects.
• Engaging with leaders across Isio to reinforce understanding of requirements and solution designs, then implementing them in the most effective manner.
• Having the responsibility to oversee digital products from initial build to production release and maintenance BAU.
• Supporting with database architecture, in line with the wider group governance. This includes implementing both structured and unstructured data storages.
• Promoting a culture of continuous improvement within the Development team by mentoring and upskilling others.
• Participating in Isio's CAB to ensure effective governance of changes being deployed to production systems.
• Involvement in Isio's adoption of AI, including working with custom AI integrations
• Working in a growth culture business within a start-up like environment, but supported by the stability and resources of a corporate organisation

What we're looking for?

Key Role Requirements

• 5+ years development experience with the Microsoft Ecosystem (C#, dotnet, Entra)
• 3+ years hands on experience with the Azure Cloud Platform (AWS and GCP are not applicable for this role), covering a broad range of Azure resource types
• Experience with DevOps implementing CI/CD pipelines. Knowledge of Github Actions or Azure DevOps Pipelines strongly preferred
• Hands on experience working on codebases of varied high level architecture patterns (Monoliths, Microservices)
• Experience building APIs and API clients to strong level of maturity
• Experience working with messaging queues (Azure Service Bus preferred) and asynchronous architectures
• Knowledge of serverless technologies. Azure Functions preferred.
• Experience working with both structured and unstructured data. MSSQL Server and Azure Cosmos preferred.
• Experience with creating and updating documentation
• Demonstratable experience with handling multiple internal and external stakeholders, including engaging with third party suppliers
• Demonstratable experience of using modern design patterns, working with loosely coupled architectures
• Demonstratable experience of priority and time management, including implementing solutions to time sensitive projects
• Exposure to working on multi-year, multi-phase development projects involving multiple different technologies
• Hands on experience of Agile/Scrum ways of working
• Comfortable demonstrating solutions to senior stakeholders
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both verbal and written.

Advantageous Requirements

• Knowledge of AI and AI development tools
• Development experience with Python
• Holding professional development skills certifications (Azure or similar)
• Experience with building integrations to third party software (SaaS) products
• Exposure to building and testing quantitative development models
• Actuary experience and/or Pensions Administration experience
• Understanding of private equity business models

Why Join Isio

Isio is a fast-growing professional services business, that offers career development through an evolving client base, diverse and meaningful work, nationwide opportunities, and a culture that rewards high performance and accountability.

We hold ourselves to the highest standards andour values guide how we advise our clients, how we operate as a business and how we work together as a team. We call it the Isio Attitude. We encourage our people to be bold, to communicate with conviction, and to deliver advice that matters.

Here, growth brings opportunity - more responsibility, more clients, and work that stretches and develops you. We invest in training and development so you can expand your skills and explore different career paths across diverse markets to make your mark. Isio is a place to realise your potential and build a career with impact. You can find out more about Isio and the benefits we offer on our career's website Isio - Careers & Benefits.

About Isio

A progressive advisory firm, partnering with clients of all sizes to deliver expertise in pensions, employee benefits and wealth advisory services.

Working with pension trustees, employers, individuals, families and their offices, we are supported by talented colleagues across 10 UK offices. With a Big 4 heritage we combine a strong focus on quality with a fresh perspective challenging traditional thinking.

Our culture shapes our work; we foster a supportive environment where we develop our people to grow and fulfil their potential. We invest in our services, products and technology, and provide clear, expert solutions for our clients. This brings clarity, confidence, and better outcomes for everyone.

At Isio, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse workplace, in which our colleagues feel they belong, regardless of background or difference. We uphold the values of respect, fairness, and inclusion in our actions and decisions. We believe that by adhering to these principles, we will create a stronger, more innovative, and supportive environment for all, as well as ensuring that the advice and support we provide to our clients is more creative, more insightful and leaves a lasting impact.

We can offer a hybrid, flexible approach to work, supporting a work-life balance that works for you. Isio Group is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

If you think you may require a reasonable adjustment to be made for any reason at any stage of your recruitment process, please ask us hrrecruitment@ISIO.com