Overview
Our agile development team are responsible for building internal and client-facing applications, including research, data, analytics and interactive investment tools. We delivered these through both web interfaces and function libraries. We make a big impact on the business and believe in continuous improvement and learning with dedicated Learning & Development (L&D) days each sprint as well as access to a learning platform. It’s about focus and efficiency and ultimately delivering results.
How you'll make an impact
* We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Software Architect to lead the design and development of scalable, robust, and secure software solutions.
* You will play a critical role in shaping the technical direction of our products balancing architectural design patterns with pragmatic solution design, and guiding engineering teams through implementation.
* You will be expected and encouraged to maintain a hands-on approach to coding being involved in projects as appropriate.
* Staying up to date on relevant technological advancements, you will inform and guide the Development and Product teams on appropriate emerging changes and potential benefits to our products.
* Working with other members of the architectural guild, you will establish viability of design decisions through design discussions and POCs.
* Keep a vigilant eye on security especially at the design stage and ensure the team is following best practices to ensure that our solutions remain secure.
* Investigate and assess new tooling and approaches that might be adopted by the team
* Create and maintain appropriate architectural documentation to facilitate
* As appropriate, represent Redington in ongoing integration discussions with the wider Gallagher organisation.
About You
This role is for you if have the following skills, experience and attributes:
* Experience designing, implementing and enhancing native cloud solutions
* Experience working with Microservices, Event Sourcing and CQRS
* Highly proficient in C# .NET
* Strong experience with an RDBMS and SQL (preferably PostgreSQL or SQL server)
* Strong experience with AWS including Lambdas, RDS, Cognito
* Excellent communication and presentation skills
* Professional attitude (self-starter, ability to work with minimal supervision and in a team as required, ability to meet deadlines)
* Strong communication skills
* Experience of MS Azure
* Typescript/JavaScript and associated web technologies with knowledge of React (preferable) or Angular
* Experience with a NoSQL database, preferably MongoDB
* Platform tools such as: Octopus Deploy, Team City, Kubernetes / Docker
Compensation and benefits
On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.
Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:
* Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
* Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
* Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
* Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
* Health cash plan or Private medical insurance
Other benefits include:
* Three fully paid volunteering days per year
* Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
* Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
* Critical illness cover
* Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
* Season ticket loan
* Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
* Emergency back-up family care
* And many more…
We value inclusion and diversity
Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.
Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.
Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.
We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.
Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with TAGlobalSupport@ajg.com. If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.
Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.
Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.
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