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SalaryA new adventure awaits…
How does 5 weeks leave per year, an impactful career that you'll truly love, and working for a great organisation that empowers wellbeing sound like to you?
At Zurich we're on a journey towards a brighter future… A brighter future for you - focused on your career, your wellbeing, and your community - as well as our customers and the planet.
Let's create a brighter future together, let's make a difference
Our Technology team is critical to progressing Zurich towards being Australia's leading Digital Insurer. The Technology strategy focuses on strengthening foundations through security, stability and scalability; it builds for the future through enabling agility, simplicity and efficiency, and it enables the art of the possible through innovation, digitalization experience.
Important to your success - let's grow together
We have Technical Lead vacancy available within our Supernova Squad (Life3, Pricing, etc.) This role is responsible for building a high performing software delivery team using Agile, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches such as continuous integration, automation & DevOps practices.
The successful Tech Lead will leverage their broad expertise across modern Agile and Software Engineering practices to mentor and guide the team to develop and execute a technical direction with a focus on business & customer value. They have experience influencing stakeholders and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed.
As a Technology Expert
- Accountable for delivering high quality software solutions requiring multiple technology like Salesforce, Mulesoft & integration with legacy systems into production to our customers.
- Help the team understand and follow architectural design guardrails, in partnership with Architecture team.
- Ensure the team builds & leverages automation effectively across our end-to-end delivery processes and the solutions offered to our business.
- Lead the team to embed software engineering best practices like code reviews, unit testing, performance testing, security, design patterns and object-oriented programming.
- Uplift engineering and DevOps practices to aim for smooth production releases with high quality, speed & stability.
- Use engineering health metrics to help continuously improve team's delivery maturity.
- Be a change agent and advocate for emerging Engineering best practices.
- Be a change agent and ambassador for emerging Agile best practices and culture.
- Establish an operating rhythm that is owned and facilitated by the team.
- Create opportunities and space for learning, development, and innovation.
- Manage all aspects of the product life cycle, from concept, requirements, design, implementation to launch.
- Ensure the team has clear alignment in between their work and our business Objectives and Key Results (OKR's).
- Work with the Product Owner and the team in managing and meeting delivery expectations in and around (quarterly) planning and prioritization activities.
- Guide and support the team in maintaining a healthy backlog of work including technical debt & non-functional requirements.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
- Multiple years of hands-on software development experience
- Experience leading teams
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically.
- Excellent communication & facilitation skills.
- Experience with cloud-based technology such as AWS, Docker or Kubernetes
- Experience & knowledge about CI/CD pipelines & delivery
- Familiarity with insurance software or financial systems is a plus.
- JIRA and Confluence Proficiency is desirable.
- Experience of working in flat, adaptive and collaborative delivery environments i.e. an Agile environment
There are many reasons why Zurich is the right choice for you, but here are just a few - grow, and thrive in your career (we support and encourage it); work with global, diverse, and inclusive teams; explore your passions, fuel innovation, drive equity, collaborate and make a positive difference beyond your role; access programs to stay healthy and feel healthier; Flexwork@Zurich; become an activist in your community with the support of Z Zurich Foundation; award winning training programs; state-of-the-art Green Star rated office in North Sydney; we plant a tree for every new employee - one of many local initiatives driving our contribution to ambitious global sustainability targets.
We could go on, but the main point is that Zurich is a place that you can truly belong and thrive!
Zurich is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair and accessible for all candidates. If you require any special accommodations to participate in our recruitment process, we encourage you to let us know at the time of your application.
So, if you want to come on an adventure that will build a brighter future together, and feel a sense of togetherness, then please apply today to start your adventure!
