Application Technical Lead @MarshTech

Company:

Marsh Risk

Description:

We are seeking an experienced Platform Technical Lead to provide technical leadership and governance for a business-critical application platform. This role will be responsible for ensuring the platform is delivered, maintained, and evolved according to enterprise standards for quality, security, reliability, and operational excellence.

The successful candidate will act as the technical authority for the platform, partnering with Development, QA, and Support. This is a hands-on technical role with no direct people management responsibilities.

The Platform Technical Lead will define and enforce development standards, oversee software delivery practices, drive CI/CD automation, improve release processes, and ensure the platform remains secure, scalable, and maintainable.

We will count on you to:

Technical Leadership

• Creates POC which will serve as baseline as reference to final product development.

• Serve as the technical authority for the application platform.

• Define and maintain technical standards, development practices, and architectural guardrails.

• Review technical solutions and provide guidance to development teams.

• Ensure consistency across applications, services, repositories, and environments.

• Support technical decision-making and risk assessment.

Software Delivery and CI/CD

• Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.

• Drive automation of build, test, deployment, and release processes.

• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the software delivery lifecycle.

• Improve deployment reliability, release quality, and delivery speed.

• Define and maintain release governance practices.

Development Governance

• Define and enforce Git branching strategies and repository standards.

• Establish Pull Request policies and code review requirements.

• Implement quality gates and automated validation processes.

• Promote engineering best practices and continuous improvement.

• Security and Compliance

• Integrate security controls into the development lifecycle.

• Implement automated security checks and vulnerability scanning.

• Monitor development and delivery practices for security or compliance risks.

• Raise incidents and drive remediation when technical practices create risks to platform stability, security, or delivery quality.

Database Delivery and Automation

• Design and maintain automated deployment processes for database changes.

• Collaborate with the central DBA team to improve database delivery practices.

• Implement deployment validation and rollback mechanisms.

• Ensure database changes are fully integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

Enterprise Collaboration

• Work closely with Technical Product Owner, Development, QA, Support, Security, Infrastructure, Architecture, and DBA teams.

• Coordinate with centralized corporate services and shared technology teams.

• Support external vendors and ensure compliance with internal standards.

• Act as a technical escalation point for platform-related delivery and quality concerns.

Operational Excellence

• Improve platform reliability, maintainability, and observability.

• Drive standardization and automation initiatives.

• Reduce manual operational activities through tooling and process improvements.

• Support incident analysis and root cause investigations.

What you need to have

• Software Engineer bachelor's degree (or equivalent)

• At least 5 years of experience in similar roles (tech lead, software architecture, DevOps, developer with strong high-level view of final solution or similar)

• Technical Expertise in designing reliable software

• Experience with Microsoft .NET and ASP.NET applications.

• Strong experience with Angular and modern front-end development practices.

• Solid knowledge of IIS administration and application hosting.

• Experience with microservices architectures and distributed systems.

• Strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL).

• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.

• Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycle management.

• Experience with source control, branching strategies, and repository governance.

What makes you stand out?

• Preferable experience working within large enterprise or corporate environments.

• Experience collaborating with centralized Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, and DBA teams.

• Understanding of enterprise governance, change management, and release management processes.

• Experience supporting multiple development teams and external vendors.

Personal Skills

• Strong curiosity for software innovation and creativity in software development.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Excellent communication in English.

• Ability to influence technical decisions without direct authority.

• Proactive mindset with strong attention to quality and continuous improvement.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with DevSecOps practices.

• Experience implementing automated testing and quality controls.

• Experience with cloud-based application delivery environments.

• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms.

• Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies.

• Key Success Measures

• Reliable and secure software delivery processes.

• Increased automation across application and database deployments.

• Reduced release failures and production incidents.

• Improved compliance with development and security standards.

• Faster and more predictable delivery cycles.

• Increased developer productivity and platform stability.Job Description – Platform Technical Lead

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Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work, and supportive leaders;

• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have an impact for colleagues, clients, and communities;

• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being;

• A yearly budget and the opportunity to build your flexible benefits package (up to 20% of your annual salary);

• 30+ days off (including legal days, birthday, public holiday replacements, and benefits options);

• Performance bonus scheme;

• Matching charity contributions, charity days off, and the Pay it Forward charity challenge;

• Core benefits: Pension, Life and Medical Insurance, Meal Vouchers, Travel Insurance

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit corporate.marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.