Software Development 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!

Support Engineer (DevOps) 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. Do you have a talent for troubleshooting problems, delivering new and innovative solutions, a desire to learn and develop yourself whilst supporting others? If so, then this role is for you. We are a fast paced operations team, responsible for building, configuring 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'll be working alongside developers to help maintain a smooth delivery pipeline, project managers to deliver innovative solutions, our front line to provide excellent client support, as well as supporting and encouraging junior members of our team.

Agile Test Analyst 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. What you'll do To be involved in the entire Software Delivery Lifecycle To drive an automation approach with the Test Pyramid in mind To prevent the creation of defects in our software To work proactively with the team to instil quality into our products and practices To embed modern testing approaches as a part of a whole-team responsibility for quality To communicate and collaborate effectively in an Agile environment

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