Job Title: Senior Software Engineer – Test Automation and Developement
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Park
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: Wednesday 20th August 2025
We have a unique opportunity to offer roles within the Chief Operating Office that will help shape the future of Royal London, across several disciplines.
Our Chief Operating Office (COO) works across Royal London to help deliver the Group’s strategic ambitions. We work in partnership to deliver operational excellence, drive innovation, enhance customer experience, and protect our business from threats impacting our industry.
We are the largest business unit within Royal London, bringing together thousands of colleagues to look after millions of customers to deliver great outcomes for customers. Our business focuses on aligning colleagues, applications and projects with our three value streams: Long Term Savings, Protection & Equity Release, and Long Standing Customers & Annuities. These roles form part of the Long Term Savings value stream.
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 Opportunity
- Modernising our technology is fundamental to realising our ambitions and achieving sustained competitive advantage. It will allow us to develop an innovative and leading proposition, achieve speed to market and ongoing pace of change, and maintain a competitive cost-to-develop and cost-to-serve.
- We are forming new engineering capability in our Alderley Park office to deliver and maintain a new technology solution which will support our financial product offering.
- We have more than 80 vacancies for people to be part of this exciting opportunity.
About The Role
- Create and Deliver Solutions: Develop technology solutions that meet business requirements, ensuring efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and minimal environmental impact.
- Automation and Testing Integration: Leverage automation tools to streamline infrastructure provisioning and operational workflows, to implement automated testing frameworks that validate functionality, performance, and security throughout the development lifecycle.
- 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
- Automation Tool Integration and Management: Design, implement, and maintain automation workflows using tools such as Cucumber/WebDriver IO, Playwright, Postman, Selenium, SoapUI, Cypress, PowerShell, and Azure Automation to streamline infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and operational tasks across cloud environments.
- 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.
- Workload Design and Management: Design and manage highly scalable and resilient workload solutions including cloud native serverless and containerised workloads to Kubernetes.
- Event Streaming: Design and maintain business critical event streaming capability with Confluent.
- 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
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
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
Inclusion, diversity and belonging.
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.
