Principal Software Engineer - Insurance Retail We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with 10+ years industry experience to provide technical leadership in a fast paced, innovative, market leading Engineering team. The successful candidate will lead by example and be a technical expert in their field. With a proven track record designing, building and deploying solutions to complex problems that delight our customers, they will be able inspire, direct and enable colleagues to grow, thrive and contribute to delivery of complex technical solutions that delight our customers. What you'll do: As a Principal Software Engineer you will contribute to setting the architectural direction within our Software Engineering Department and the definition and execution of technical strategies that improve our products, infrastructure and processes. You will liaise closely with the architects, taking the architectural vision and working with technical leads and the developer community to oversee its application to real life operations. You will influence senior leaders on engineering strategy, work with other leads to set policies and processes and ensure technical designs are properly evaluated for projects that underpin the ongoing success of the business. You will recognise, influence and resolve critical issues that affect company strategic direction and quickly analyse and address tactical issues across a wide range of areas. As a coach and mentor you will create an environment and culture of continual learning, role model the behaviours of a senior technical leader and inspire and guide more junior colleagues to solve problems through example. You will be 'hands on' with the code, both in terms of writing it and interpreting it, and adept at problem solving and continuous improvement through experimentation and iteration. You will bring your industry expertise to bear, share new ideas and industry advances internally and externally, break down knowledge silos and mitigate engineering single points of failure. You will collaborate with senior leaders and others to maintain awareness of internally and externally driven change and anticipate and prevent obstacles from hindering team performance. About us: 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. 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.

Senior Agile Business Analyst - Digital The role of Senior Agile 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 outside our agile development squads and will be supporting high priority 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 InsurTech Providers, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a consistent track record 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. CDL is very much about community, innovation, excellence and collaboration. 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 CDL Team are the heart of our company. Key Responsibilities Research into feasibility of requests, and elicitation and gathering of requirements and produce documentation including diagrams using relevant modelling tools Work collaboratively with the squads to break down features into user stories and shape these into feasible solutions for delivery Ensure Stories meet the Squad's agreed Definition of Ready/Done Assist the Product Owners with definitions of the Product Roadmap, MVP's and features Assist the Product Owners with providing the data to support more informed prioritisation Facilitate Requirements Capture, Backlog Refinements & Retrospectives Ensure effective written and verbal communication with clients as part of your analysis and with product managers and squad members, raising issues when required Coach and mentor other Business Analysts in both analysis skills and applications knowledge Organised and able to work in a fast-paced environment, ability to manage workload and push back where needed. Ability to support multiple pieces of work at once and comfortable to prioritise your workload. Maintain knowledge of design processes, tools & standards, potential customer environment challenges and architecture of the applications. Support Governance of the design processes where needed ensuring alignment to CDL strategy and architectural principles. Support the Business Analysis community of practice, sharing knowledge, skills and experience to improve the Business analysis processes and deliverables **CDL is currently working fully remote but from February 2022 we will move to hybrid working where we will be working in the office 2 days a fortnight**

Senior Product Owner A senior product owner is a passionate ambassador for the portfolio within their family. They possess a profound understanding of our customer and end user needs and have expert awareness of the insurance marketplace, they support directly the product family Lead PO (PFL) in addition to being responsible for their own area of the product array, a key role in the portfolio management within a family. Communication As a senior product owner, they will assist with the creation of a compelling vision for their family portfolio of products and assist with developing a strategy that helps deliver on the vision, enabling software delivery teams to understand how their work enables the execution of the Product Strategy Communicate effectively internally for squad, business and client communication, utilising internal business communication streams wherever possible Offer up information to enable strategic direction to be given to the family as a whole Promote their family by way of communication channels used by CDL Contribute and promote the business Portfolio Roadmap for all CDL Products as a valued member of the team Assist the PFL in the creation and promotion of product roadmaps for internal and external purpose Assess and communicate progress towards a goal or release to their PFL Provide demonstrations of new ideas and features to stakeholders and sponsors Work as a team Own and communicate their backlog effectively feeding into the product family backlog Assist the PFL with reporting out to the business on current developments status's Assist the PFL with supporting any issues that may occur during the development phase's Financial Ownership They will play a supporting role to the PFL offering up information around Budgets set by the business for development and product viability Assist the PFL, by way of feeding information to enable them to report out to the business all aspects of current product P&L raising concerns to the PFL lead as and when discovered Collect interpret and improve objective, verifiable evidence to measure the value delivered through product deliverables. Own drive and contribute initiatives that sit within their family Leadership Take ownership and be accountable as part of a team for the work produced Work directly with PFL, Exec, Software engineering team BDM, CRM Agile Leads, Team Managers and Squad members, building great relationships Be proactive Show leadership skills that their peers want to follow Create collaborative new initiatives within their family and promote them Empower others around them Mentor and coach team PO family members Work with and support the PFL, BDM and CRM teams in bringing revenue into the business Be available and engaged 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. 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.

Software Developer in Test Are you passionate about quality and testing software with an automation 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 all about getting into the guts of pipelines and code? Are you keen to bridge the divide between developers, QA and BA in order to build automation tests which will form part of a continuous integration pipeline? Sounds like you're just the rock star we're searching for - let's talk! THE ROLE We're looking for a Software Developer in Test to join our ranks. You'll have a strong collaborative focus and a drive for continuous improvement - traits that'll see you play a key part in the R&D and implementation of strategic initiatives. We're all about enabling better practices for our delivery teams, so they can develop high quality features that delight our customers. You'll be an experienced Software Developer in Test and a passionate Agile advocate, with a strong QA/Development/DevOps background and a desire to iterate, innovate, and instigate quality-driven approaches and processes from a Left-Shifting perspective. You'll have a breadth of knowledge in modern automation testing techniques and approaches. You'll be an inspiring teacher, coaching and mentoring others to improve their skills and approach. You will be acting as a role model to develop the stars of tomorrow. This is a position of influence, with a strong focus on leading and driving key initiatives and improvements to instil a Quality culture in QA 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. This is the perfect opportunity to be a part of meaningful change in our company, and help drive a culture of excellence in everything we do. What we do: CDL is one of the UK's leading software development houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport, powering brands such as Swinton and Tesco Bank. The CDL suite of products power all aspects of an insurance provider's needs, from Digital and Price Comparison integration, through to back office, fulfilment and pricing as well as Data products. Several of CDL's applications are prime to break out of the Insurance sector and provide a route to diversification and expansion globally. 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 .