Technical Lead Developer

About Utmost International

Utmost International is a leading provider of insurance-based wealth solutions operating across the UK, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. Its solutions are largely based on unit-linked insurance policies, serving the needs of affluent, high net worth (HNW), and ultra-high net worth (UHNW) individuals.

About Utmost Luxembourg S.A.

Sitting at the crossroads of private banking, asset management, and insurance, we operate in a well-established and fast-growing division of the financial services industry. Our dynamic international team of 450+ experienced wealth structuring specialists, subject-matter and technical experts consists of 50 different nationalities, speaking over 30 languages.

We are a diverse and inclusive organisation driven by a values-based culture that promotes excellence, ambition, and innovation. We invest in talented teams who develop their expertise, curated through support and training, and fostered through a people centred culture. Our people truly are our greatest asset!

Your role – Are you ready for a challenge?

Responsibilities

As a Technical Lead in the IT Department of Lombard International Assurance you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth operation and maintenance of the organization's infrastructure and applications. You will share your time between:

• Analysing Business needs and designing solutions in accordance with Architecture guidelines and strategy as well as best practice;
• Technical support for development team;
• Development as part of one of our SCRUM Team.
  
  

You will work on the full lifecycle of projects/products from the design phase to ensure that Business requirements are correctly mapped to technical solutions, along the lifecycle of the products/software (development process, deployment, production …). With these objectives you will work closely with Business Analysts and Business Stakeholders during the design phase, support development teams during the development phase and then with DevOps and operations teams for the deployment and monitoring of products once running in production.

The Technical Lead Is Accountable For The Following

• Lead and performing the technical analysis and development of projects based on business requirements and following our internal guidelines and procedures,
• Draft clear and detailed analysis and solution design documentation and schemas,
• Provide support to development team,
• Control that development and deployment processes are respected in order to guarantee the expected quality level,
• Ensure that architectural decisions and good practices are applied,
• Manage the follow up on a project from the design phase up to the run phase,
• Be a strong source of proposals for improvements in processes and tools as well as technologies and solutions,
• Be pragmatic and practical but also critical and able to challenge solution designs, always considering the full picture including Business Requirements as well as technical and regulatory constraints,
• Continuously learning and staying up-to-date with the latest software development technologies and trends.
  
  

Your profile – Have you got what it takes to become our Technical Lead Developer?

Required

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Software Computing, Computer Science or similar, candidates with appropriate work experience will be also considered,
• Strong ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment and capable of adapting to shifting and evolving business priorities,
• Quick learner with strong troubleshooting skills, debugging and analytical skills,
• Strong appetence for technical challenges with a constructive approach,
• Strong appetence in understanding Business,
• Show ability to design technical solutions using best practices, and being able to explain and defend them,
• Autonomous and solution oriented,
• Self-organized and creative team player with excellent communication skills and willingness to learn,
• Excellent time management, self-organized, problem-solving and attention to detail,
• You are eager to innovate and try new things,
• Show accountability and ownership with deliverables,
• Fluency in English.
  
  

Technical skills

• Micro-service architecture
• Solution Design
• Java
• Spring, Spring Boot, Spring cloud
• JPA / Hibernate
• REST
• Databases: MSSQL, MongoDB
• Maven
• Git
• CI/CD (ideally Gitlab CI/CD)
• Kafka
• Containers
  
  

Additional Assets

• Kubernetes/OpenShift
• API Gateway
• Angular
• Databases: Redis, OpenDistro /elastisearch
• BPMN2
• Jira
• XL Deploy/XL Release
• Knowledge of French or any additional language is a key asset.
  
  

As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, colour, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Given the sensitive nature of our business, industry sector and the role as described, the selected candidate is required to provide a criminal record (Bulletin n°3 for Luxembourgish residents). This excerpt will be kept by Utmost Luxembourg S.A. in compliance with article 8-5 (2) of the law of 23 July 2016 and for no longer than one month from the conclusion of the employment contract; otherwise, it will be destroyed without any undue delay should the candidate not be hired.

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