Technical Lead - Applications

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Date: 30 Jul 2025

Location: Edinburgh, GB

Company: Royal London Group

Job Title: Engineering Lead

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 12th August 2025

We are currently seeking a highly skilled and motivated Technical Lead to join our team at Royal London. As a Technical Lead, you will play a crucial role in managing the design, development, testing, and smooth operation of our applications.

You will deliver development and test services to our business. Responsibilities include tool selection, vendor management, and defining the technical roadmap for one or more Royal London applications, ensuring continuous improvement in availability, currency, and cost-effectiveness. This role offers an exciting opportunity for individuals with a strong technical background and a passion for problem-solving to contribute to our organization's growth and success.

This progressive role involves joining the pensions applications team to deliver scalable solutions for our customers and employees. You will have the opportunity to work on various initiatives across pensions, collaborating with stakeholders across the group.

This role aligns with our values of strengthening our customers' mutual choice by providing sustainable technology solutions.

About the role

• Provide problem management and incident resolution (production support) for the platform.
• Build trusting relationships with key stakeholders and internal customers.
• Offer expertise on methods and tools needed to deliver change through the platform.
• Ensure technical upgrades and maintenance are scheduled, working closely with relevant third-party vendors.
• Manage team performance against key deliverables and measure quality against internal benchmarks.
• Oversee third-party vendors' performance against contractual obligations and SLAs, and identify opportunities to leverage new capabilities to add value.
• Contribute to financial planning and portfolio activities across the group, including leading recruitment efforts for permanent and flexible resources.

About you

• Broad knowledge of IT, with expertise in application development techniques and best practices.
• Experience managing technical teams, including workload and personnel management.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to apply specialist knowledge to solve complex problems.
• Strong organizational and time management skills to prioritize and multitask effectively.
• Experience leading technical evaluations successfully.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

About Royal London

We are the UK's largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company, offering a range of protection, savings, and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise is to work in an inclusive, responsible, enjoyable, and fulfilling environment, underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values: Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We offer great workplace benefits such as 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, up to 14% employer-matched pension scheme, and private medical insurance. See all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity, and belonging

We celebrate and value diverse backgrounds and cultures. Our diverse perspectives give us a range of skills that are recognized and respected, regardless of background.