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As you'd expect for a software house, we have a huge number of opportunities within IT, from Java Software Developers to Application Support Engineers, and from Internet Developers to Test Analysts.
But it's not all IT. We also regularly recruit to roles in service management, client relationship management, finance and HR. You can find out more about the opportunities at CDL by browsing the job descriptions below.
But it's not all IT. We also regularly recruit to roles in service management, client relationship management, finance and HR. You can find out more about the opportunities at CDL by browsing the job descriptions below.
Work at CDL
As you'd expect for a software house, we have a huge number of opportunities within IT, from Java Software Developers to Application Support Engineers, and from Internet Developers to Test Analysts.
But it's not all IT. We also regularly recruit to roles in service management, client relationship management, finance and HR. You can find out more about the opportunities at CDL by browsing the job descriptions below.
But it's not all IT. We also regularly recruit to roles in service management, client relationship management, finance and HR. You can find out more about the opportunities at CDL by browsing the job descriptions below.
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Java Engineer This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate Java engineer to join one of many agile squads in the Insurance Retail family, we are looking for someone who likes a challenge, wants to embrace a DevOps culture and brings ideas around improved ways of working. We are also looking for someone who is a team player and can collaborate with different levels of technical ability. AI is a big part of life at CDL and you will be keen to adopt the use of AI tools and technologies to enhance productivity and innovation within your team and to evolve our products. 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 history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. 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 pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company. In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients!
Junior Operations Support Technician Are you an Operations Support Technician who enjoys solving problems? Do you have excellent customer service skills and are looking for a move into an IT Support role? We want to hear from you! As a Junior Operations Support 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 2nd line technical faults with the applications through resolution, within agreed SLA's. We are looking for an IT Support Technician who has excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to understand client concerns and the impact it has on their activities. 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 history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. 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 pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company. In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients!
Senior Business Analyst The role of Senior Business Analyst is to deliver a robust analysis service which meets the demands of our business and clients, working with our diverse technology solutions and cross functional development teams, no two days are the same. The role requires collaboration with our Product teams, business stakeholders and technical teams playing a key role in shaping our current and future technology and product delivery. The successful candidate will look to become an expert in the products, be comfortable working with cloud based back-office systems and/or digital platforms within a technical and data driven landscape. By working with the Product and Software Engineering Teams the successful candidate will help to define problems and understand challenges. You will clearly analyse, document, and manage requirements, getting buy-in from stakeholders to identify viable business solutions across the full product lifecycle. This role will operate within one of our agile development squads and will be supporting projects and product development activities. This role will need to interact with clients and CDL teams across the business and need you to flex your analysis skills between enterprise level, project and detailed level analysis depending on the piece of work in question. If you're an experienced analyst with good technical understanding and like solving business problems we would love to hear from you! 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 history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. 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 pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company. In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients!
Technical Delivery Lead - Data To work closely with direct reports, colleagues, clients and suppliers at all levels acting as a technical delivery leader across domains, leading one of our growing team of BI System and Data Engineers working on our cloud-based data solution product Kingfisher. Accountable for the end-to end delivery of our leading cloud based, high-speed, secure data solution, ensuring they are delivered to agreed timeframes, to a satisfactory standard in line with CDL standards. Lead a multi-disciplined team accountable for technical project planning and delivery including requirement validation, build, test, release and deployment. To work to create an environment and culture of continual learning and improvement across the department and beyond. Reports to Senior TDL / SEM 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 history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. 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 pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company. In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients!
Business Analyst Do you enjoy working within a fast-paced challenging environment, with opportunities to grow? We are looking for a Business Analyst who will work as part of our agile cross functional software engineering teams in Digital Delivery. A passionate and enthusiastic forward thinker, you will work closely with CDL's Digital clients, alongside our Product Owners, analysts, and software engineering teams to identify and analyse business requirements and support application and process changes through the delivery lifecycle. As part of a growing community of practice you will receive coaching and mentoring from other team members and there will be numerous opportunities to expand and increase your skills within an Analyst role. 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 history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. 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 pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company. In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients!
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? 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 history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. 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 pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company. In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients!
Software Engineer (Web) Full stack Engineer, Front-end Engineer We are looking for a Developer from a Web background with front end development skills and at least 3 years of experience to join our Digital Delivery department and help us transform and drive forward our client's digital solutions. You will help develop and maintain one of the UK's largest retail insurers' digital applications, helping to drive their business, expand their offerings, and playing a pivotal role in assisting them with modernising their tech stacks. You'll be excited by the capabilities of the new technologies we are developing within the Digital department but won't be phased by the older tech stack that the majority of our applications are built upon within the squad. You should have a passion and desire to work in a Test-Driven Development (TDD) & DevOps culture. 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 history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. 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 pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company. In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients! About the Team We have several Software Engineer roles in our client implementation squads that focus on driving and delivering against customer roadmaps. Each delivery squad is multi-disciplined and consists of up to 10 members across delivery management, DevOps, Business Analysis, Quality Assurance and Software Engineering. You will be part of the Operations community with other Engineers in the Digital Delivery department, inputting to the direction of software engineering, sharing and driving best practices, and contributing to internal open source across the Digital department. You must demonstrate a strong desire to not only improve yourself but participate in our culture of learning & sharing. You will have support from our Software Engineering Seniors, Leads and Principals, as well as support to gain industry-recognised certifications.
Product Manager Are you a Product Manager who is looking to work on core product development within a SaaS environment? 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 history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. 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 pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company. In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients!
Full Stack Software developer This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate Full Stack Software Engineer to join one of many agile squads in the Insurance Retail family, we are looking for someone who likes a challenge, wants to embrace a DevOps culture and brings ideas around improved ways of working. We are also looking for someone who is a team player and can collaborate with different people of technical ability. 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 history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. 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 pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company. In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients!
Junior Technical Author Do you have an interest in documentation and information creation? Do you enjoy working within an agile environment and looking to work as part of an innovative, collaborative culture? 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 history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. 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 pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company. In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients!
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At CDL, we source candidates directly and on occasion we will, upon invitation, use a specified list of preferred suppliers to help support us in sourcing candidates for particular roles.
We don't accept any speculative CVs from recruitment agencies or suppliers who are not part of our preferred supplier list, and we only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team.
We don't accept any speculative CVs from recruitment agencies or suppliers who are not part of our preferred supplier list, and we only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team.
At CDL, we source candidates directly and on occasion we will, upon invitation, use a specified list of preferred suppliers to help support us in sourcing candidates for particular roles.
We don't accept any speculative CVs from recruitment agencies or suppliers who are not part of our preferred supplier list, and we only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team.
We don't accept any speculative CVs from recruitment agencies or suppliers who are not part of our preferred supplier list, and we only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team.
We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to CDL or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, CDL reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and have discussions with them without paying any agency fees.
Thank you for your co-operation. All agency enquires should be directed to the CDL Recruitment Team on hremail@cdl.co.uk
Thank you for your co-operation. All agency enquires should be directed to the CDL Recruitment Team on hremail@cdl.co.uk
We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to CDL or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, CDL reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and have discussions with them without paying any agency fees.
Thank you for your co-operation. All agency enquires should be directed to the CDL Recruitment Team on hremail@cdl.co.uk
Thank you for your co-operation. All agency enquires should be directed to the CDL Recruitment Team on hremail@cdl.co.uk
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