Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC) is the world's leading professional services firm in the areas of Risk, Strategy and People. MMC is undertaking a major transformational initiative that will disrupt how essential financial services are delivered to consumers worldwide. The Digital Insurance Platform programme will deliver a completely new SaaS offering based on a microservices framework of reusable components to enable the rapid and low-cost delivery of insurance solutions on a global scale.

We are now building the Technical Leadership Team in Dublin to establish the architectural & engineering standards, best practices, and processes that will guide the scaled development of the Platform and are seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Backend Technologies), based in the MMC Innovation Centre in Dublin city centre, to be a technical lead for the global team engaged in the development and implementation of this exciting new green field strategic technology platform.

This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to lead and shape this critical technology initiative, working with senior engineers around the world to deliver a large-scale Platform that will transform our business.

We will count on you to:

• Provide technical leadership to the distributed technology teams building the Digital Insurance Platform; including providing technical direction and guidance to multiple scrum teams and more junior team members.
• Shape and drive the technical development of the platform, including technology evaluation and selection, conducting proof of concepts and technical spikes, and leading solution architecture.
• Help define and ensure adherence to technology standards, agreed architecture, and engineering best practices, across the platform and implementation teams
• Act as the ultimate escalation point for a team of engineers engaged in delivering core platform components and services.
• Drive a culture of quality and shift-left across the platform teams; championing DevOps principles and practices, helping teams to adopt a mindset of continuous improvement, and ensuring security, reliability, scalability, and performance of solutions is a given.
• Work with senior business and technology stakeholders across the world to translate business needs into solutions that drive value.
• Get involved in building the team from the ground up; helping to define roles & resourcing needs, and evaluating & selecting candidates for key engineering positions.

What you need to have:

• Significant experience in implementing and delivering microservice based systems to production, in a containerised and cloud first environment, with a focus on backend technologies, primarily Java, to deliver business logic.
• Experience of modern application architectures and in environments and cultures focused on achieving a very high degree of re-use.
• Strong understanding of SaaS technologies and architectures.
• Deep knowledge across a range of modern technology tools, languages and processes. The core technologies and tools we use include Java / Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Apigee, Okta, Camunda, Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins.
• Experience of software development methods including Agile, Scrum, Kanban, CI/CD
• Agile/incremental mindset for system design.
• Comfortable working in a matrix organisation with distributed teams from different cultures.

What makes you stand out:

• Your proven track record in engineering thought leadership and in delivering new, world-class technology platforms
• You’re a natural leader – someone that other engineers want to work with
• Great communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable working in a distributed environment, with an ability to form great working relationships across teams, locations, and time zones.

What you will be rewarded with:

Our employees enjoy excellent benefits such as:

• Competitive salary with annual review
• Up to 12% pension contribution
• Healthcare cover
• Study Support
• Flexible working arrangements/work from home
• Sports & Social clubs/Wellness Programme
• Paid annual leave and ability to purchase additional leave days
• Travel ticket/bike to work/dental are optional
• Subsidised canteen
• 35 hour working week

Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other less represented groups tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on what is needed, please still get in touch.

Marsh & McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is the world's leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people. The Company's 76,000 colleagues advise clients in over 130 countries. With annualised revenue approaching $17 billion, Marsh & McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment through four market-leading businesses. Marsh advises individual and commercial clients of all sizes on insurance broking and innovative risk management solutions. Guy Carpenter develops advanced risk, reinsurance and capital strategies that help clients grow profitably and pursue emerging opportunities. Mercer delivers advice and technology-driven solutions that help organisations meet the health, wealth and career needs of a changing workforce. Oliver Wyman serves as a critical strategic, economic and brand advisor to private sector and governmental clients. For more information, visit mmc.com, follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @mmc_global or subscribe to BRINK.

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