Platform Software Engineer

ICT are in the process of creating a suite of cloud native SaaS products that build upon our market-leading insurance solutions. As a Platform Software Engineer, you will work as part of a highly-skilled and close-knit development team to develop key platform capabilities for our product teams to consume and implement.
This is a varied and challenging opportunity where you will play a key role creating new platform features and enhancing existing code, whilst ensuring the product continues to meet high levels of reliability, maintainability, usability and performance.

The Role:

• Support the team as they build out a new SaaS platform based on Azure services.
• Build out platform components primarily using C#.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for product teams with focus on high cadence and cost effectiveness.
• Help to define and build tooling that will maximize the developer experience of platform users.
• Work with the team to define infrastructure requirements.
• Create infrastructure as code, primarily with Pulumi
• Share knowledge across teams

The Requirements:
The essential skills/experience for this position are:

• Proficient in software development using C# .NET.
• Experience of cloud technologies (primarily Azure), in areas such as networking, storage, integration, compute and analytics
• Experience building pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps.
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle in a commercial/production environment: requirements capture and analysis, estimation, detailed software design, implementation, unit and system-level testing, installation and deployment, maintenance.
• Experience with Software Engineering best practices: object-oriented design and implementation, design patterns, SOLID principles, Agile and Extreme Programming methodologies. Strong team player with the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively.

Other highly desirable, but not essential skills are:

• Ability to design high-performance, scalable and extensible software architectures which are also easy to test, debug and maintain,
• Appreciation of current and emerging technologies along with their potential benefits and limitations,
• SQL Server or other database management systems, General knowledge of the Insurance Industry

Degree-educated with Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or relevant discipline

Equal Opportunity Employer

At WTW, we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome, valued and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organization. We embrace all types of diversity.
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