Acurity Lead Engineer (18-month FTC)

• Shape the future of insurance with innovative ideas and technologies that improve the lives of millions of Australians 
• Work alongside diverse, passionate colleagues and leaders who inspire, support, and value your contributions. 
• Take your career further than you ever imagined with diverse roles and opportunities for personal and professional development.  

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Daiichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services. 

Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities. 

Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance. 

So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer. 

The Lead Engineer is accountable for providing technical leadership and direction to the delivery team (the “Pod”) in the development and support of Group, Investment, and Retirement products hosted on the Acurity platform. This role also actively contributes to hands-on development and support activities.

The Lead Engineer plays a key role in establishing and promoting development standards and best practices, while collaborating effectively with team members across the delivery landscape. They enable the Pod to translate business requirements into high‑quality, well‑designed technical solutions and foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the wider technology team.

In this role you will:

• Provide input and thought leadership into the systems technology roadmap for the platform as well as the quality standards and processes for the platform. Contribute to the long-term sustainability and future-proofing of the investments platform technology suite.
• Identify and articulate business and technical risks and issues. Take action to resolve issues, mitigate risks, minimise run costs and minimise technical debt.
• Configure and code changes and interfaces for the Acurity systems, and train others to be able to do the same.
• Perform design-, code- and test-reviews and embed built-in quality practices to ensure products delivered by the Pod meet appropriate quality standards throughout development. Also ensure that products are reliable, usable, efficient, effective and, where required, highly available and scalable.
• Assist the Development Manager and the Pod in breaking down user stories, sizing and estimating tasks, removing impediments, mitigating risks and, where required, facilitating agile ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective rituals).

• IT or a related field qualification
• 10+years as a software developer
• 5+ years development with Acurity
• In-depth industry knowledge of Superannuation, Investment and Retirement
• products
• Agile environment experience
• Iteration Management experience

Desireable:

• Acurity Services and Azure Service Integration
• Life insurance experience
• Experience working with Atlassian Jira and Confluence
• Automation testing experience

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be:  

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index  
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change  
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan. 
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community.  
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here—we’re here to support you. 

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.   

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.  

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

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