Royal London Group Hiring for Application Developer Job at London, England Full Time

Royal London is the largest mutual life insurance, pensions and investment company in the UK. Since its foundation 160 years ago, Royal London has supported millions of people to protect and provide for themselves and their families.

Our culture is welcoming, friendly, flexible and we aim to make you always feel included. We welcome applications from individuals who have taken an extended career break or those who are transitioning from different sectors.

To support this we are always open to discussing flexible working arrangements and as we transition to hybrid working we will discuss working patterns or locations that ensure you have the freedom to be your best. It’s what makes Royal London a great place to work.

We believe that being together some of the time will help our colleagues to feel truly connected to our Spirit of Royal London culture. Many of us value the passing conversations, social interactions and building relationships that comes from being together in the office.

Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) was established in 1988 and is a wholly owned and central part of the Royal London Group. Since our inception we have built a reputation as an innovative, high performing fund manager. Our track record and exceptional client service have been recognised with a number of awards. We are proud of the people we employ, the performance we have delivered and the wide-ranging group of clients we manage.

Role purpose

We are currently looking to recruit an Application Developer to join our team on a permanent basis in our London office. The main purpose of the role will be to develop, maintain and support the RLAM Business systems; which cover all in house developed applications on the MS .NET and SQL technology stack.

Key responsibilities

Contribute to design, implementation, testing and maintenance of in-house built RLAM applications and software systems.

Key focus of this role is on delivery of robust solutions while adhering to best development practices and industry standards.

Building out a new RLAM data access layer with input to solution design and defining core approach.

Building restful APIs and architectural design using message queues with .Net Core.

Excellent problem solving and decision making skills

Excellent communication skills with both a technical and non-technical audience

Keen to learn new software development techniques, technologies and best practices

Essential Criteria

Good understanding of Software Development Lifecycle

Good understanding of design patterns and best development practices including SOLID principles

Practical C# development experience creating Restful APIs using .Net Core 3.1 or higher

Strong analytical mindset with a proactive approach to problem solving

Entity Framework Core

Git source control, Azure DevOps Pipelines

Testing Frameworks – e.g. xUnit

Practical development experience with MS SQL/T-SQL

Hands on experience with developing and configuring services in Microsoft Azure (Storage, AD, Monitoring)

Experience working with Agile or Lean development methodologies

Desirable Criteria

Experience working within an asset management firm previously

Experience with .Net 5/6

Terraform

MS Build, MS Release Manager, PowerShell

noSQL platforms

What we offer

We’ve always been proud to reward employees by offering a number of benefits such as Pensions and Protection, Performance and role-related benefits, Lifestyle and Wellbeing

Our culture comes from within, or to put it another way, it comes from our people. It’s what makes Royal London a great place to work.

Our People Promise is something we live up to every day. We know we can rely on you, and you can expect plenty from us in return.

Glassdoor have again ranked as among the best places to work in the UK.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We work hard to attract the best talent for our award-winning team. We believe that embracing difference makes us stronger. Our diverse people bring us different skills – whatever their educational background, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

In fact, the first pillar of our People Promise is designed to make sure you ‘work somewhere inclusive’. We want to live up to this promise; it’s good for our people and good for our customers too, because our workforce should reflect our communities.