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

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

Java Developer Do you enjoy working collaboratively, championing agile/scrum best practise focusing on continuous integration and delivery, whilst facilitating problem solving? We are looking for a Java Developer who enjoys working within a Microservices architecture and within a community of practice. 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. 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, Co-Op, Sainsbury's Bank, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. Our clients range from direct insurers, brokers, financial institutes, retailers and aggregators. 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.

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.