Title:  Engineer (Digital Product Team)

Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

Are you ready to join a dynamic cross-functional team moving into the future of digital innovation? We are seeking an exceptional Senior Engineer to play a key role in our efforts in transforming the landscape of digital solutions. If you are passionate about Digital products, technology, and driving meaningful outcomes, this is the role for you! 

CLUK have ambitious plans to modernise their IT (Information Technology) estate, looking to leverage the cloud and automation at every opportunity and change how we fundamentally deliver solutions, transitioning from a Project to Product approach. 

You will be working at every stage of a product lifecycle deployment, from conception, design, implementation, testing and through to operational support.  

Purpose 

As an Engineer you will have a strong background in full lifecycle software development. 

• Designing, building, deploying, and supporting software across front and backend stacks   
• Configuring and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines and test automation to facilitate a seamless route to production for Azure hosted solutions 
• Developing and supporting environments up to and including production to ensure reliability and quality 

You will also have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes, and you want to make data-informed decisions 

Duties/Responsibilities  

1) Solution Development 

Engage fully in the development lifecycle of applications and tools, contributing hands-on to all development tasks, from coding to reviewing and releasing to production.  

Collaborate closely with team members, product owners, and stakeholders. 

2) Continuous Learning  
Take ownership of personal learning paths, continually acquiring new skills to enhance team solutions and individual performance. 
 

3) DevOps Delivery  
Implement and refine DevOps practices, balancing responsibilities between development and operations, while actively reducing technical debt and enhancing automation and reliability of applications. 

 
Skills, Knowledge, and Experience  

• You have developed modern component-oriented front end applications using frameworks and libraries and have a good appreciation of UX (User eXperience). 
• Proficiency in a variety of development technologies, languages, design patterns, and tooling. Our current tech stack is primarily Microsoft / Azure focused; solid C# is necessary. 
• Advocate of key principles such as SOLID and CLEAN code – applying to all areas of development. Keen to write code that is self-explanatory and easy to maintain. 
• We use Azure DevOps and Octopus Deploy for our pipelines but an understanding of the principles behind CICD is more important that the tooling you have used. You will have worked in an environment that deploys regularly to production. 
• You have a sound grasp of modern engineering principles and prefer working in small iterations that optimise feedback. You like to validate hypothesis via experiments. 
• You have an awareness of security principles and best practices to ensure secure software delivery. 
• You are committed to continuous learning, staying abreast of evolving industry technologies and trends. Which are demonstrable and you are keen to share and contribute to our community. 
• You have extensive experience working within an agile environment, waterfall projects are a big red flag to you. 
• You own change all the way to production, and the idea that a different team would test your work, or that it will not rapidly ship to production does not sit well with you. 
• You enjoy working with others and contributing to technical excellence as part of an active community. 

Benefits of working at Canada Life

We believe in recognising and rewarding our people, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package that’s regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, you’ll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including a generous pension and bonus scheme, along with, income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance.  We have a fantastic number of other benefits and support services as well as regular personal and professional development.

How we work at Canada Life

Our culture is unique and incredibly important to us.  We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers and community and helping others to build better futures.  Our blueprint behaviours shape and influence how we work, and are central to the relationships we have with others.  Every day we are encouraged to be more curious, own the outcome, face into things together and find a way forward. 

We want colleagues to have rewarding careers with us so we invest in the development of our people, technology and workplaces. That’s why we offer a range of training, flexible working and opportunities to grow and develop.

Diversity and inclusion

Building an inclusive workplace with a diverse workforce where everyone can feel they belong and achieve their potential regardless of gender, ethnicity or any other characteristic is a key commitment for us.  We are proud of the progress we’re making in DEI, and we continue for it to be a significant focus. 

“At Canada Life we believe in the power of great people from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives coming together to build better futures. Emerging talent is crucial to our growth and creating an environment that continues to inspire us all.”  Nick Harding, Chief People Officer, Canada Life UK

We appreciate that everyone has different work and life responsibilities. We’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you.