About Us:
At Fidelity Life, we take pride in our role in New Zealand's Growth Story, safeguarding the way of life for New Zealanders for over 50 years. Our success contributes directly to the growth of New Zealand, through our shareholders, customers, and people, making us a unique player in the market. As a trusted and dedicated contributor to protecting New Zealanders, we invite you to join our team and make a meaningful impact.
Role Overview:
The Insurance Platforms Technical Lead is the primary technical authority across Fidelity Life’s insurance platform ecosystem. The role provides technical leadership and oversight, and engineering expertise across multiple squads and technologies, ensuring consistent high-quality delivery aligned with enterprise direction.
The Technical Lead is an expert in the Microsoft cloud stack, with strong capability across Azure integration services, cloud architecture principles, DevOps practices, and solution engineering. The role requires working knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365, sufficient to guide teams, provide technical oversight, and ensure best-practice implementation across the insurance platform ecosystem.
The role acts as a coach, mentor, and technical escalation point, and team leadership enabling teams to deliver robust, secure, performant, and maintainable solutions spanning Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership:
- Provide technical direction and thought leadership across all insurance platforms and delivery squads
- Lead engineering governance, including coding standards, integration patterns, and technical solution design best practices
- Conduct design reviews and provide technical oversight
- Lead technical troubleshooting and incident resolution, acting as the primary escalation point for production issues
- Promote quality engineering and continuous improvement practices
- Contribute hands-on to design and implementation where complexity or risk warrants direct involvement
Platform & Engineering Governance:
- Own and maintain platform engineering standards
- Ensure alignment to enterprise architecture and security frameworks
- Oversee integration design and delivery spanning Azure and non-Microsoft systems
- Ensure non-functional requirements are consistently met
- Work with vendors and partners to ensure delivery quality and technical standards are upheld
Team Leadership:
- Provide coaching, mentoring, and development for developers and SREs
- Foster a high-performing engineering culture
- Proactively identify and resolve technical impediments affecting team delivery
- Support recruitment and onboarding of technical team members
Agile Delivery, Teamwork and Collaboration:
- Actively participate in Agile ceremonies, leading technical discussions, demonstrations and outcomes while supporting the ceremony facilitator
- Lead technical input into backlog refinement, ensuring stories are well-defined, estimated, and technically sound before sprint commitment
- Engage across squads and with architecture, security, and platform teams to ensure cohesive and aligned technical delivery
- Collaborate with Product & Business Owners to ensure technical clarity
What We’re Looking For:
Qualifications:
Experience:
- Strong Azure expertise (Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, APIM, Identity)
- Extensive .NET development experience
- Technical leadership and governance experience
- Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams
- Agile experience
- Power Platform governance experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Skills
- Technical solution design
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- DevOps practices and Azure DevOps pipelines
- Ability to guide teams across Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills
Why Join Us?
At Fidelity Life, we believe in empowering our people through development opportunities, a supportive team culture, and meaningful work that makes a difference. If you’re passionate about delivering great service and want to grow your career in a purpose-driven organisation, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply Now:
If you are ready to take on this exciting challenge and meet the qualifications above, we want to hear from you! Please apply now and we will be in touch soon.
Fidelity Life is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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