Job Title: Lead Software Engineer – Azure DevOps

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Edge

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 23rd October 2025

A Software Engineer is essential in developing and implementing technology solutions that meet business needs. They work with product owners and business analysts to turn requirements into effective designs. Their responsibilities include improving existing solutions, integrating new ones, and reusing shared platforms. They develop business systems, interfaces, databases, and reporting tools to support corporate goals. Whether working on front-end or back-end systems, they use their software development expertise to create robust, scalable, and efficient solutions, driving continuous improvements and enhancing customer choice.

About the Role

• Create and Deliver Solutions: Develop technology solutions that meet business requirements, ensuring efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and minimal environmental impact.
• Enhance and Integrate: Modify existing solutions, integrate new ones with current systems, and support the reuse of shared platforms.
• Security and Documentation: Implement security standards, including role-based permissions and access auditing, and ensure thorough documentation of designs and configurations.
• Testing and Quality: Collaborate with Quality Engineering and Infrastructure teams to test solutions for functionality and performance, embedding quality throughout the development process.
• Continuous Improvement and Support: Address issues, drive ongoing improvements, support continuous integration and deployment, and enhance solution resilience to handle disruptions.

About You

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Development: Design, implement, and manage Terraform scripts to automate cloud infrastructure on Azure, ensuring efficient and secure resource provisioning.
• CI/CD Pipeline Implementation: Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, integrating Terraform to automate infrastructure deployments with validation and security checks.
• Environment Management: Manage multiple environments using Terraform Workspaces, ensuring best practices for state file management, versioning, and locking mechanisms.
• Collaboration and Optimization: Work with cross-functional teams to define infrastructure requirements, implement monitoring and performance optimization, and ensure security and compliance using Azure tools.

About Royal London

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Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. 

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits  

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