Solution Manager - Redhill - 12 month FTC THIS IS A 12 MONTH FTC ROLE AND A HYBRID WORKING ENVIRONMENT The Company: The company is a leader in its field and is an Insurance business with an excellent reputation both in the UK and abroad. THE ROLE: This is a new opportunity within the UK Solution Engineering team for a Solutions Manager to join on a 12 month fixed term contract. Reporting into the Head of Solution Engineering, you'll manage, optimise, and lead high performing teams ensuring delivery against business outcomes. You'll be responsible for operational governance and support for all strategic capabilities including collaborating on technical strategy for modern engineering platforms and applications. An ideal candidate will have good software architecture skills from working on complex, distributed systems with the ability to bring modern engineering practices to the team such as TDD, DevSecOps and Continuous Delivery. WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING: · Responsibility for the building capability of the solutions teams and stability of the software solutions they produce and play a pivotal role in shaping its evolution · Providing considered technical recommendations to stakeholders to balance conflicting requirements so ensuring maximum value to the business · Influencing the long-term strategy for solution delivery and wider CIO · Creating and sharing technical knowledge, tools and resources necessary to support growth · Contributing to delivery ensuring the correct software decisions are made and reduce risk, remove issues and actively manage dependencies · Working with architecture to support engineering input into architectural governance and design where required · Line management including managing for high performance, understanding current talent mix and create career pathways · Ensuring vendor skills and resources are applicable and appropriate to the outcomes and actively manage vendors for success WHAT YOU WILL BRING: · Strong understanding of software delivery, programming languages and modern architectural patterns · Proven track record of leadership and strategic planning · Recent back-end coding experience ideally .NET and/or Python · Hands on experience of good software engineering practices e.g. TDD, Continuous Delivery, Dev/Sec/Ops · Strong delivery experience, including programmatic principles, delivery leadership, servant leadership and cross team dependencies · Exemplary stakeholder management skills including negotiation and influencing skills · Experience working in a productised environment managing backlogs driven by business value · Ability to present information concisely and manage a demanding workload As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN A DYNAMIC AND SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS WITH AN EXCELLENT REPUTATION ADZN1_UKTJ