Java Developer CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. There's also a subsidised restaurant and a games room. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with. What you'll do You will work in a scaled agile environment to develop insurance solutions to brokers, third parties as well as direct to the public. Broadly, the role is to implement user stories into fantastic features, using your code craftsmanship skills. Helping you develop your craft and pass on this skill is equally important to us. You will work collaboratively, championing agile/scrum best practise focusing on continuous integration, delivery, whilst facilitating problem solving. It's pretty fast paced here, we release software every 6 weeks, following an iteration of two, three weekly sprints. Automation is key part of what we do at CDL, you will use SOAP UI, Selenium to regroup and refactor, allowing quick changes to code, reducing duplication and improving maintainability. You will promote development best practise, and work autonomously in a squad, driving product growth. We're facing exciting growth at CDL, and continuous improvement is at heart of what we do. This is an exciting opportunity for a middleweight, or an experienced developer to join a rapidly growing organisation, investing significantly in its employees, and best engineering practises. We're looking for enthusiastic, and passionate developers with an attitude to learn, collaborate, aspire, continuously improve, and thoroughly enjoy what they do. If this sounds like you, and you're up for the challenge, then we would love to talk technologies with you.

Web Development Team Lead We're looking for a Front End Team Lead to join our ranks. You will be joining our Development department as a Team Leader, Frontend Developer and form part of one of our autonomous Scrum based delivery squads, focused on delivering value to our customers via B2C digital solutions. The area is responsible for the development, enhancement of over 50 fully functional consumer facing websites and are currently transforming their technology stack to enhance product development. We're currently using ES6, Node.js, and Vanilla JavaScript and there is potential to use React/Redux, Angular with an aim to build further interactivity, self-service enhancements. The development teams collaborates closely with our Principal UX to ensure solutions are built around a user centred approach. We have regular innovation workshops to generate ideas to improve accessibility, simplicity and user experience of the websites we're building. As a Front End Lead you will drive decisions around the UI for the company's existing and upcoming projects whilst technically leading and mentoring a talented team developers. Other day to day responsibilities will include; working with the product owners and engineering team to build and roll out reusable UI components, implementing new features in array of different frameworks, ES6, React, Node, and Angular. You'll be using your Front End skills and good eye for design to build innovative solutions, designing architectures and build common libraries, whilst simultaneously establishing a high performing team, educating them, and champion, all the latest technology and trends. If you have a passion to uncover better ways of developing and designing web products, this opportunity offers a key role within our Development function to facilitate the accelerated evolution of our digital transformation. An autonomous role which demands resourcefulness, facilitation, initiative, and superb problem-solving skills. If this sounds like you then we would love to hear from you

Senior Cloud Engineer Are you looking for a new challenging role where you can work on a modern infrastructure and the latest technologies? Are you a passionate Senior Cloud Engineer with extensive experience in AWS looking to join a company where you can work on multiple projects? We are growing our cloud services department and we are looking for a talented Senior Cloud Engineer who can work with our new products and deployments, driving the projects through to delivery. You'll be a highly motivated Senior Cloud Engineer who's excited about helping to build a modern infrastructure for building, deploying and monitoring high-volume software applications, along with internal tools and systems. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you should be passionate about engineering and operations, own the technical direction and keep up to date with the latest trends. Leading the team, you will act as an escalation point and help with providing coaching and mentoring to junior team members. You'll build additional implementations in a Linux environment, assisting with the management AWS platform, ensuring smooth running of live systems. Are you up for a challenge? We would love to hear from you! About CDL CDL has established its position as a market leader in the highly competitive retail insurance sector by consistently creating powerful enterprise software solutions that deliver competitive and innovative advantage to our customers. We've custom-built our own modern, open offices set in our own landscaped campus in Stockport, employing over 600 staff, providing for over 100 internet brands (Asda, Tesco, Money Supermarket, Swinton, AA, and Sainsbury's) to name a few. We pride ourselves on providing a positive and rewarding environment for our people. We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you are always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with.

Platform Engineer Are you a Platform Engineer who enjoys working with the latest technologies in a fast paced, challenging environment? Do you have a talent for troubleshooting problems, delivering new and innovative solutions, a desire to learn and develop yourself whilst supporting others? We are looking for a Platform Engineer to support our flag ship Strata applications and components. You'll build, deploy and support environments and applications. We are a fast-paced operations team, responsible for building, configuring, monitoring and supporting solutions from development through to production. Automation is key to everything we do and we're looking for individuals to help us deliver this, you will use tools such as Puppet, Vagrant, Jenkins, Kubernetes and Elastic for a start. You'll be working alongside developers to help maintain a smooth delivery pipeline, project managers to deliver innovative solutions and service management to ensure solutions meet our clients expectations. You'll be involved in: Developing, enhancing and supporting our cloud solutions, ensuring our cloud solutions are robust enough to be destroyed and re-built overnight without anyone noticing. Developing, enhancing and supporting our on-prem and self-hosted solutions, providing seamless service. Supporting LIVE clients with the aim to resolve issues as promptly as possible but with an eye on making things better. Using Elastic you will monitor platforms to ensure we have as much information available as early as possible. Supporting clients out of hours with Severity 1 issues and play your part in delivering upgrades throughout the night About us: CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with.

Internal Communications Officer Do you love telling stories through great writing and the application of complimentary media - using collaboration tools to drive engagement and alignment to our business strategies? We are looking for an energetic, resourceful and self-motivated communicator with exceptional written skills and a creative flair to ensure our communications add value and support our business vision. As well as being an excellent writer and creative content producer, you will have the ability to build great relationships at all levels within the organisation. You will be committed to developing a deep understanding of our culture, motivated by the desire to ensure CDL continues to be a great place to work, so we can deliver our mission to help our customers win through technology. About CDL CDL is one of the UK's leading software development houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a consistent track record in the high-volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We pride ourselves on being part of a collaborative, inspiring working environment, with our employees at the heart of our company. What you will do: Working with the Internal Communications Manager, you will help to translate business information into effective and clear messaging, ensuring it is relevant for all employee groups. You will utilise creativity in communications activities and campaigns, helping to plan, co-create, edit and publish brilliant content across multiple channels, including our intranet and digital signage. By developing a deep understanding of our business, you will be committed to ensure all our communications have purpose, create impact and add value. You will be able to develop effective working relationships with colleagues across the organisation and build up a sound understanding of technical projects and the organisation's structure, processes and stakeholders. To support our collaborative culture, you will help to plan and organise business and social events, including employee forums; ensuring multi-way communications across all our people.

Junior Platform Engineer Do you have a hunger to learn and looking to kick start your career within a challenging and exciting DevOps environment? Do you enjoy working with the latest cloud technologies? We want to hear from you! What you'll do We are looking for a Junior Platform Engineer to join our Application support team working within a DevOps environment. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who has an IT related degree or similar training who is looking to develop their career within cloud and DevOps environment. Your role as a Junior Platform Engineer will be varied including 2nd line support, dealing with deployments from development through to production, access requests, running scripts, uploading documents, configuring end points, uploading policies and monitoring our entire estate. You will also have the opportunity to get involved in projects, patching both on-prem and cloud, whilst working with, and learning from, our 3rd line engineers. You'll be involved in: Releasing code and deploying our software to our on-prem, cloud and self-hosted solutions. Performing daily checks to verify nothing 'caught fire' overnight! Automation - using Puppet Monitoring our infrastructure using various monitoring solutions such as Elastic, Grafana, Prometheus and Cloud Watch. Monthly security patching cycles to ensure we apply the latest security patches within tight timescales. Implementing new functionality in a timely manner, aligned to client requests. Running scripts, uploading client documentation, access requests, refreshing environments and configuring environments as well. ...and also working out of hours to ensure we can deliver with minimal impact to our clients, and AWS patching. About us: CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with.

Desktop Manager Are you a Desktop Manager who has a strong technical background looking to drive the strategy forward? Are you results driven and people focussed? Does being part of a collaborative culture inspire you? We are looking for a Desktop Manager within our Software Engineering Department to join us, you will have passion for leading a team of talented professionals and drive the overall strategy and innovation of our Desktop processes. Your role as Desktop Services Manager will include maximising the efficiency of services and supporting the Information Security, IT governance and regulatory framework. The role will encompass all services related to internal and desktop functions, including the provision of desktops and mobile devices as well as key business services such as corporate communication and productivity tools (Office365), Service Management software (ServiceNow), Finance, HR and other functions, to ensure the desktop offering is always steps ahead. About CDL: CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a consistent track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with. We pride ourselves on being part of a collaborative inspiring culture and the employees are the heart of our company. Our Agile Journey Here at CDL we do agile at scale from 'The Codeworks' our new purpose built software house in Stockport near Manchester. Over the last few years our transformational agile journey has seen us become one of the top tier software houses in the Northwest, we aim to be the very best. If you have a passion to uncover better ways of developing software, this opportunity offers a key role within our Development function to facilitate the accelerated evolution of our lean agile practices. What you'll do As a Desktop Manager, your role will be to encompass all services related to internal and desktop functions, ensuring the desktop offering is always steps ahead. Driving the strategy will be a key area of your role and you will have a strong background in in planning and delivery. We want to expand by recruiting experienced talent. Part of your role will be to lead the recruitment process and ensure there is enough resource for the company's needs. You'll have a passion for quality, striving for continuous improvement and work to best practises. As a strong communicator, your focus will be building strong relationships within your teams.

Junior Product Tester CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we like to work in small, focused groups so you are always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of the team, as well as the success of the company.

Data Engineer Data Engineer We are looking for a talented Data Engineer who would relish the opportunity to work with our leading a cloud based, high-speed, secure data solution. Do you enjoy working as part of a collaborative, inspiring culture? If you are a Data Engineer who has experience working within cloud environment, we would like to hear from you! We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our growing team of BI System and Data Engineers working on our cloud-based data solution product Kingfisher. Our Kingfisher product produces high-speed data management information dashboards, that replicates our core system data or any other complex data within minutes of changes taking place enabling clients and data scientists to make decisions. As a Data Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment to continue to develop and support our data platform solution. Working to a clear vision and roadmap you will be part of a growing team, working collaboratively designing and developing the solution. About us: CDL has established its position as a market leader in the highly competitive retail insurance sector by consistently creating powerful software solutions that deliver competitive and innovative advantage to our customers. We've custom-built our own modern, open offices set in our own landscaped campus in Stockport, employing over 600 staff, providing for over 100 internet brands (Asda, Tesco, Money Supermarket, Swinton, AA, and Sainsbury's) to name a few. As part of the Data Services team you will work on CDL's high performance business intelligence (BI) and management information solution that enables customers to derive powerful insight and value from the data that they hold. Built using cloud technology, currently AWS, it provides performance, scalability and flexibility. We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We are also proud to have achieved the Top Employee 2019. We like to work in small, focused groups so you are always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with.

Junior Product Owner CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. 600+ staff are based at our campus in Stockport, purpose built and boasting facilities such as a subsidised restaurant and games room, and our long history and privately owned status mean a strong sense of identity and community. What are the key activities of this role? Be a passionate ambassador for the product; possess a profound understanding of our customer and end user needs Inspire and support the software delivery team in their quest to delight customers through high value deliverables Maximise and communicate the value and ROI of the product and the work of the software delivery team Possess the ability to question solutions offered up by your development team. Consider viability and value not only internally but to our clients-own the product Enable software delivery by ensuring that the teams understand how their work enables the execution of the requests made of them Own the Product backlog, prioritising to maximise reward in the form of business value, managing stakeholder (Client and internal) needs for development and CR's measuring, uncertainty and risk; Ensure that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all and understood by the software delivery team to the level needed and shows what the team will work on next Learn to Forecast and communicate product roadmap and release projections You MUST Be a team player always learning and listening to others around and considering their opinions Be willing to learn in a fast paced environment

Agile Test Analyst What you'll do Are you passionate about quality and testing software with an Agile mindset? Do you care about 'building the right thing' and 'building the thing right'? Does being part of an innovative culture inspire you? Then we want you! We're looking for an Agile Test Analyst to join our ranks. With a strong collaborative focus and a drive for continuous improvement, you'll be a key part of the Delivery Team as they work to implement features to delight our customers. You'll be an experienced Agile advocate, with a strong testing background and a desire to iterate, innovate, and instigate quality-driven approaches and processes. You'll know all the basic testing techniques and some of the advanced ones too! You'll get to flex your automation skills and perhaps even teach others what you know. This is the perfect opportunity to be a part of meaningful change to our flagship and newer products, and help drive a culture of excellence in everything we do.

MI Analyst Description CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we like to work in small, focused groups so you are always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of the team, as well as the success of the company. What you will do A unique MI reporting and analysis role working with both internal and external clients to ensure their data reporting is accurate and timely. When clients require support, you will analyse data and use your extensive software product knowledge and superb problem-solving skills to find appropriate reporting solutions, and where possible generate future business revenues. You will be a key interface with clients both on the telephone and in person. As you would expect in such a consultative role, every day brings diverse demands and the knowledge that your solutions will have a major impact on the operational efficiencies of our clients. Excellent career progression opportunities for someone looking for a fast-paced, highly interactive data analyst role.

Linux Engineer Linux Engineer Are you a Linux Engineer who is looking to be part of an inspiring collaborative culture? We are looking for a Linux Engineer who has a thirst for learning new technologies. CDL has established its position as a market leader in the highly competitive retail insurance sector by consistently creating powerful software solutions that deliver competitive and innovative advantage to our customers. We've custom-built our own modern, open offices set in their own landscaped campus in Stockport, employing over 600 staff, providing for over 100 internet brands (Asda, Tesco, Money Supermarket, Swinton, AA, and Sainsbury's) to name a few. We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We are also proud to have achieved the Top Employee 2019. We like to work in small, focused groups so you are always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with. What you will do The Server Team are responsible for hosting, service management, building live services on premise & AWS, providing services to insurance, financial services & supporting 2500+ servers. As a Linux Engineer, you will help build out, maintain, and troubleshoot our rapidly expanding infrastructure. You will be part of a talented team of engineers that demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering mission critical services and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance and security. You will Install, configure & maintain Linux operating systems and system management tools. In order to support your development, you will also be expected to learn more skills and increase your responsibility in this growing role. We are always looking for new ways of working, using innovative technologies, to build solutions. You will have a keen interest in systems administration and automation with knowledge gained either from personal or commercial experience. As a Linux Engineer, you will build, test, assist with the implementation of technical documents, configuring Microsoft, & backup technologies. Providing ongoing maintenance, automating process via Ansible, Puppet, focusing on infrastructure as code, engaging with internal & external customers to resolve queries. You'll help the team identity, research new technologies for the continued growth of CDL servers and infrastructure. We're currently using Docker to create, deploy, and run applications by using containers, and Terraform for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced sys admin, who wants to learn and develop further. We will aid your development through relevant industry certifications, keeping you challenged and motivated. If you have a technical mind and a passion for Systems Administration, we would love to hear from you. Technology Stack: Linux, Redhat, Oracle Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, VMware, Data Centre, Server Hardware, Microsoft & NetApp.

Product Owner CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. 600+ staff are based at our campus in Stockport, purpose built and boasting facilities such as a subsidised restaurant and games room, and our long history and privately owned status mean a strong sense of identity and community. What are the key activities of this role? Be a passionate ambassador for the product; possess a profound understanding of our customer and end user needs Inspire and support the software delivery team in their quest to delight customers through high value deliverables Maximise and communicate the value and ROI of the product and the work of the software delivery team Possess the ability to question solutions offered up by your development team. Consider viability and value not only internally but to our clients-own the product Enable software delivery by ensuring that the teams understand how their work enables the execution of the requests made of them Own the Product backlog, prioritising to maximise reward in the form of business value, managing stakeholder (Client and internal) needs for development and CR's measuring, uncertainty and risk Ensure that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all and understood by the software delivery team to the level needed and shows what the team will work on next Forecast and communicate product roadmap and release projections Be a team player always learning and listening to others around and considering their opinions Propose ways to collect interpret and improve objective, verifiable evidence to measure the value delivered through product deliverables. Provide demonstrations of new ideas and features to stakeholders and sponsors Demonstrate leadership skills Bring fresh new ideas to the PO team from past experience

Technical Author Are you a Technical Author who is looking for a new challenging role? Do you enjoy working within an agile environment and looking to work as part of an innovative, collaborative culture? We are looking for a Technical Author who has experience within a software delivery function, who can contribute to the delivery of high-quality product documentation to our customers. You will be involved in a range of our software products and you will take real ownership of the production and maintenance of the product and user guides, release notes and product enhancements. Working closely with the product, development and support teams to create reference materials to understand features and functionality of the software. Joining our Service Management department, you will have a strong customer focus and excellent communication skills. We are looking for a Technical Author / Writer who can create and review technical documentation aimed at a variety of audiences, ensuring the correct language is applied. Your role will have a strong focus towards the continuous delivery, driving improvements you will ensure deadlines are met. About CDL CDL has established its position as a market leader in the highly competitive retail insurance sector by consistently creating powerful enterprise software solutions that deliver competitive and innovative advantage to our customers. We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you are always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with.

Software Engineering Team Lead Are you a Senior Java Developer looking for more or a frustrated Java savvy Manager looking to get more hands on? You will be joining our Development department as a Team Leader, Java Developer and form part of one of our autonomous cross-functional Scrum based delivery squads, focused on delivering value to our customers via Strata, our flagship insurance product. Process improvement, skills acquisition and mentoring all form part of the wider job, to help and support you in these endeavours you will work closely with your Scrum Master, Product Owner and our Agile Coach.You will have pastoral care (Line Manager) for a number of developers from within our wider developer community. For which you will be a role model, helping to guide their personal and career development, in short enabling them to become the best they can be. CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. There's also a subsidised restaurant and a games room. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with. Our Agile Journey Here at CDL we do agile at scale from 'The Codeworks' our new purpose built software house in Stockport near Manchester.Over the last few years our transformational agile journey has seen us become one of the leading software houses in the Northwest, we aim to be the very best. If you have a passion to uncover better ways of developing software, this opportunity offers a key role within our Development function to facilitate the accelerated evolution of our lean agile practices. What you'll do You will be joining our Development department as a Team Leader, Java Developer and form part of one of our cross-functional delivery squads utilising the Scrum framework to deliver value to our customers. Process improvement, skills acquisition and mentoring all form part of the wider job, supporting our people and being a champion for good practice in product development. You will provide pastoral care (Line Manager) support for a number of developers from within our wider developer community. You'll be a role model, helping to guide their personal and career development, enabling them to become the best they can be. This is a creative and challenging role which demands resourcefulness, visionary thinking, initiative, and superb problem-solving skills. If this sounds like you then we would love to hear from you!

Senior Full Stack JavaScript Developer This is an ideal opportunity for a passionate, experienced Senior Web Developer to join an established Software House , driving InsurerTech innovation to execute our plan for growth. What you'll do: As a Senior Full Stack JavaScript Developer, you will be working on our new flagship digital products. You will be closely involved in the development of a new framework with the purpose of delivering customisable front-end solutions for our customers. Node.js API, JavaScript business logic and ReactJS UI are a few of the building blocks you'll be working with daily. With a strong collaborative focus and a drive for continuous improvement, you'll be a key part of the Delivery team as they work to implement features to delight our customers. As a Senior Full Stack JavaScript Developer, it is key to your role to work proactively with the team to instil quality into our products and practices. Your positivity, drive and technical skills will help us build amazing products. You will have the opportunity to get involved in the pipeline and deployment efforts for the solution. About CDL: CDL are one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, we are a privately owned company that has experienced continuous year on year growth and we employ over 600 people at our campus in Stockport. We are a certified UK top employer by the Top Employers Institute and are constantly striving to provide our employees with the best working environment and conditions. We have a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. We have spearheaded development in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled our customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with.

Senior Front End Developer Are you a Senior Front End Developer who is looking to join a collaborative, forward-thinking, innovative company? You will be working on our new flagship web product, as we investigate and build new ways to disrupt the current online insurance model for our broker partners. We're looking for the right kind of individual to help us achieve the ambitious targets we've set for this product. You need to have a can do attitude and outlook that sees each challenge as an opportunity. You will provide technical leadership within a mixed role squad, so that we come up with the right solutions. Your positivity, drive and technical skills will help us build amazing products. CDL are one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, we are a privately owned company that has experienced continuous year on year growth and we employ over 600 people at our campus in Stockport. We are a certified UK top employer by the Top Employers Institute and are constantly striving to provide our employees with the best working environment and conditions. We have a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. We have spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled our customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. There's also a subsidised on campus restaurant and games room. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with. We actively promote a healthy work life balance and offer a competitive benefits package.

Service Desk Technician Are you a Service Desk Technician who enjoys solving problems? Do you have excellent customer service skills and are looking for a move into an IT Service Desk Role? We want to hear from you! As a Service Desk Technician, the key focus to your role will be to resolve CDL application and product incidents, reported by clients. Working to agreed SLA's you will provide thorough investigation to find the root cause of problems. You will help diagnose technical faults with the applications through resolution, within agreed SLA's. We are looking for a Service Desk Technician who has excellent problem solving skills with the ability to understand client problems and the impact it has on a client's activities. There will be a strong customer service focus to your role and communication skills are essential, ensuring you are building and maintaining excellent customer relationships. You will be responsible for assisting with incident and problem escalation, analysing information and identifying problems effectively, escalating to team leaders and managers where necessary. You will keep up to date with technology, be motivated in your own personal development, including setting goals and objectives aligned with the business values. About CDL CDL are proud to achieve the Top Employer 2019 for the third year running! We are looking for talented people to join us on our journey. CDL has established its position as a market leader in the highly competitive retail insurance sector by consistently creating powerful enterprise software solutions that deliver competitive and innovative advantage to our customers. We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you are always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with.

Lead Product Owner CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. 600+ staff are based at our campus in Stockport, purpose built and boasting facilities such as a subsidised restaurant and games room, and our long history and privately owned status mean a strong sense of identity and community. What are the key activities of this role? Be a passionate ambassador for the product; possess a profound understanding of our customer and end user needs Inspire and support the software delivery team in their quest to delight customers through high value deliverables Maximise and communicate the value and ROI of the product and the work of the software delivery team Possess the ability to question solutions offered up by your development team. Consider viability and value not only internally but to our clients-own the product Enable software delivery by ensuring that the teams understand how their work enables the execution of the requests made of them Own the Product backlog, prioritising to maximise reward in the form of business value, managing stakeholder (Client and internal) needs for development and CR's measuring, uncertainty and risk Ensure that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all and understood by the software delivery team to the level needed and shows what the team will work on next Forecast and communicate product roadmap and release projections Be a team player always learning and listening to others around and considering their opinions Propose ways to collect interpret and improve objective, verifiable evidence to measure the value delivered through product deliverables. Provide demonstrations of new ideas and features to stakeholders and sponsors Demonstrate leadership skills Bring fresh new ideas to the PO team from past experience

Software Developer in Test CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high-volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ Agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with. Are you passionate about quality and testing software with an Agile mindset? Do you care about 'building the right thing' and 'building the thing right'? Does being part of an innovative culture inspire you? Are you an automation rock star? Then we want you! We're looking for an Software Developer in Test to join our ranks. With a strong collaborative focus and a drive for continuous improvement, you'll play a key part in driving the implementation of strategic automation initiatives which enable better practices for our Delivery Teams to develop features that delight our customers. You'll be an experienced Agile advocate, with a strong testing background and a desire to iterate, innovate, and instigate quality-driven approaches and processes. You'll have a breadth of knowledge in all basic testing techniques, with depth and specialism in automation and in one or more other advanced areas too! You'll be an inspiring teacher, coaching and mentoring others to improve their automation skills and acting as a role model to develop the stars of tomorrow. This is the perfect opportunity to be a part of meaningful change to our flagship and newer products, and help drive a culture of excellence in everything we do. THE ROLE This is a position of influence, with a strong focus on delivery of key automation initiatives and improvements to drive a Quality culture in Testing roles and beyond. You will be comfortable working as a self-starting individual, but have a predominantly collaborative approach to implement and influence positive change in people and processes. With proven expertise and experience in Agile, Quality, and Testing, you will cultivate and strive for a continuous improvement culture and demonstrate a true left-shifted, whole team approach to Quality. As a champion of the Testing Vision and Automation Strategy, you will provide everyday role modelling for other individuals; motivating, mentoring and helping others to develop their automation skills and to aspire to better themselves. You will not be happy with the status quo and will strive passionately to challenge, advance, and refine our collective successes and our people. You will actively advocate for quality being everyone's responsibility, and embed better automation practices, with a strong 'Test Pyramid' focus as well as a collaborative, cross-functional approach. Your consideration of quality extends beyond functional behaviour, encompassing non-functional capability such as performance and security. You will be technically competent; able to direct and contribute from a demonstrable position of knowledge. You will embody CDL's values and be an ambassador for the company both internally and externally, with an active presence in the Testing community which in turn enables you to feed industry advances into our everyday working. What you'll do Collaborative contribution to complex software deliveries and projects, including devising the approach to embed Quality and automated tests from the outset Support teams in the setup and configuration of automated tests in Continuous Delivery pipelines Leadership of other roles in matters of Automation, Agile, Quality and Testing Coaching, training, and mentoring of other roles in automation approach and skills Act as a role model and inspiration for all testing roles Hands-on automated testing activity, including assisting with the creation of stubs, mocks, and drivers Close collaboration with counterparts in other teams/departments to deliver common goals Implementation of key automation initiatives, and support of other key initiatives required, to deliver the Testing Vision Contribute to the shape and focus of the Automation Strategy Evangelism and promotion of the Vision and Automation Strategy to other departments and roles Support a customer-minded focus to our delivery approach, including understanding and advocating our customers' wants and needs Liaise with customers to foster strong collaborative partnerships and provide a degree of consulting/advice for their approaches when required An established active profile (or willingness to build an active profile) in the wider/external Testing community Act as an ambassador of CDL and CDL's values both internally and externally Cultivate an enjoyable, enthusiastic, and fun working culture To be involved in the entire Software Delivery Lifecycle To prevent the creation of defects in our software To work proactively to instil quality into our products and practices To embed modern testing and automation approaches as a part of a whole-team responsibility for quality To communicate and collaborate effectively in an Agile environment To drive an automation approach with the Test Pyramid in mind

Senior Platform Engineer Are you an experienced Platform Engineer who is looking to work within a Micro-Services environment on the latest cloud technologies? Would you like to be part of an inspiring collaborative culture? We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who can drive the delivery of continuous pipeline and develop and support our AWS cloud environment. This is a technology driven role where your DevOps experience will aid us in designing, supporting, maintaining and configuring CDL products. You will be working with Microservices architecture, based in Amazon Web Services, integrating with Elastic Stack and monitoring tools. As a Platform Engineer, you'll be automating processes using Terraform, scripting in Python and Bash, creating EC2 instances or using Elastic Stack powerful features such as Kibana and Logstash. This is an ideal career opportunity for a Senior Platform engineer who enjoys working within a collaborative, autonomous environment, whilst applying their wealth of experience. Online training tools are available, and we'd be happy to send you on conferences, training courses, to enhance your knowledge, and experience, where applicable. About CDL: CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you are always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with.

Agile Delivery Lead Are you an Agile Delivery Lead with strong knowledge of agile development practices looking to guide teams into innovative ways of working? Are you a result driven person looking to make an impact and drive the delivery to completion? Are you passionate about sharing the benefits of agile? Does being part of an innovative, collaborative culture inspire you? Then read on! CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high-volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with. We're looking for an Agile Delivery Lead to join our ranks to drive the delivery forward! THE ROLE We are a growing community of Agile Delivery Leads. Collectively we fulfil two important roles: Support, enable and coach the software development teams as day-to-day Delivery Leads Act as change agents at team, cross team and organisation levels We want to expand by recruiting experienced talent. You'll share your passion for agile and experience in applying agile frameworks, whilst working as an Agile Delivery Lead for one or two development teams. Some are established Scrum teams moving to Kanban, some are moving to Scrum for the first time, and some are forming entirely afresh around new products. Your role will primarily be to facilitate and enable the team's success. You'll support, guide, inspire, coach, and challenge the team, Product Owners and other stakeholders. You'll help the organisation as well as the team understand how to apply agile frameworks with rigour and wisdom, to build strong teams, to deliver quality software regularly and effectively, and above all, to satisfy customers. This is the perfect opportunity to be a part of meaningful change to our flagship products and help drive a culture of excellence in everything we do. You will embody CDL's values and be an ambassador for the company both internally and externally, with an active presence in the agile community which in turn enables you to feed industry advances into our everyday working.

Junior Front End Developer CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. There is also a subsidised restaurant and a games room. We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you are always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with. WHAT YOU'LL DO Do you like solving problems and have the tenacity to overcome any difficulties put in your path? You will be an innovator who aspires to being the best whilst conceptualising, creating enhancement of websites. You will adore writing code and be committed to helping your product owner achieve their ideals. You will create web solutions, whilst collaborating with your team members working in an Agile driven environment. This is an ideal role for an enthusiastic junior level developer to join a fast-paced organisation, focusing on front-end technologies, progressing their career and learning new technologies along the way.

Senior Java Developer CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you are always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project that you are involved with. What you'll do You will be a key member of an inclusive agile squad contributing to the ongoing development of our flagship product Strata, used by insurance brokers, third parties and directly by the public. We're passionate about agile, and release on a continuous delivery cycle giving you every opportunity to work in an intellectually stimulating environment. Working closely with Product Managers, you will implement user stories using your code craftsmanship skills. Helping you develop your craft and pass on these skills is equally important to us. We are constantly investing in technology and are creating rapid and safe automated deployments into our data centres and the cloud. Just like us, you will be passionate about continuously improving software development processes, driving architectural design discussions and coaching/mentoring developers at any level. If you have a deep interest in technology and are comfortable finding and adopting new technical approaches then we want to speak to you.

Senior Agile Test Analyst About CDL CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high-volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ Agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with. Are you passionate about quality and testing software with an Agile mindset? Do you care about 'building the right thing' and 'building the thing right'? Does being part of an innovative culture inspire you? Then we want you! We're looking for a Senior Agile Test Analyst to join our ranks. With a strong collaborative focus and a drive for continuous improvement, you'll play a key part in supporting the implementation of strategic initiatives which enable better practices for our Delivery Teams to develop features that delight our customers. You'll be an experienced Agile advocate, with a strong testing background and a desire to iterate, innovate, and instigate quality-driven approaches and processes. You'll have a breadth of knowledge in all basic testing techniques, with depth and specialism in one or more advanced areas too! You'll ideally have some automation skills to flex, and love to advocate for new ways to do things. You'll be an inspiring teacher, coaching and mentoring others to improve their skills and acting as a role model to develop the stars of tomorrow. This is the perfect opportunity to be a part of meaningful change to our flagship and newer products, and help drive a culture of excellence in everything we do. The Role This is a position of influence, with a strong focus on supporting delivery of key initiatives and improvements to drive a Quality culture in Testing roles and beyond. You will be comfortable working as a self-starting individual, but have a predominantly collaborative approach to implement and influence positive change in people and processes. With proven expertise and experience in Agile, Quality, and Testing, you will cultivate and strive for a continuous improvement culture and demonstrate a true left-shifted, whole team approach to Quality. As a champion of the Testing Vision, you will provide everyday role modelling for other individuals; motivating, mentoring and helping others to develop their skills and to aspire to better themselves. You will embody CDL's values and be an ambassador for the company both internally and externally, with an active presence in the Testing community which in turn enables you to feed industry advances into our everyday working. You will not be happy with the status quo and will strive passionately to challenge, advance, and refine our collective successes and our people. You will actively advocate for quality being everyone's responsibility, and embed better practices, with a strong 'Test Pyramid' automation focus. Your consideration of quality extends beyond functional behaviour, encompassing non-functional capability such as performance and security. You will be technically competent; able to direct and contribute from a demonstrable position of knowledge. Your pastoral responsibilities will include cultivating an enjoyable, enthusiastic working environment, with a degree of 'just enough' line management to facilitate independent, positive and proactive staff.

Senior DBA Senior DBA We are looking for a talented Senior DBA who eats, sleeps and breaths databases! If you would enjoy working as part of a collaborative, inspiring culture, then this role is for you! As a Senior DBA in our growing Data Services team, you will have the opportunity to get involved in up and coming projects including delivery against PostgreSQL. Monitoring and supporting both test and live databases, you will provide guidance to customers and colleagues whilst trouble-shooting and resolving issues through to resolution. Automation is a key part of the role and you will automate processes using several technologies such as Terraform. Initially the role will be providing production and development support for Oracle Databases with the role quickly broadening to encompass PostgreSQL. We are looking for a highly skilled all-rounder who is as confident advising the development teams on maximising investment in database technologies as they are auditing, archiving, backing up, recovering, reviewing performance and troubleshooting issues. If you are a confident Senior DBA who is looking for a challenging role, then we would like to hear from you! About us: CDL has established its position as a market leader in the highly competitive retail insurance sector by consistently creating powerful software solutions that deliver competitive and innovative advantage to our customers. We've custom-built our own modern, open offices set in our own landscaped campus in Stockport. We employ over 600 staff providing for over 100 internet brands (Asda, Tesco, Money Supermarket, Swinton, AA, and Sainsbury's) to name a few. We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We are also proud to have achieved the Top Employee 2019. We like to work in small, focused groups so you are always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with.