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!

Technical Author Are you a Technical Author with a proven track record in continuous delivery 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 proven experience within a software delivery function, who can lead the delivery of high-quality product documentation to our customers. As a Technical Author you will have familiarity with Agile software development frameworks including Scrum or Kanban. 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.

Senior DevOps Engineer 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 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. Tasks may require automating processes using Terraform, scripting in Bash, creating EC2 instances or using Elastic Stack powerful features such as Kibana and Logstash. This is an ideal career opportunity for an operations engineer, who is keen on learning new technologies, working in an 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.

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