Lead Software Engineer

Job description

Job Title: Lead Software Developer Contract Type: Permanent: Location: Alderley Edge Working style: Hybrid – 50% home/office based Closing Date: 23rd March 2026 About the Role: Royal London are seeking an expertly skilled and experienced Lead Software Engineer to join our Data & Integration area within CTO, working on our Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) initiative. iPaaS is a modern, cloudcentric integration platform that provides reusable capabilities in the form of patterns, standards and reference architectures to enable teams adopting our integration services to deliver at pace in a scalable and secure way. We are a centre for enablement “We enable, you build” —our platform team creates and operates core capabilities, while product & value stream teams consume published patterns and collaborate to evolve them. The successful candidate will join one of our squads developing new capabilities and improvements where you will play a lead role in building and operating integration solutions for our customers and business users. About you: You’ll be a hands-on engineering leader with a platform mindset—someone who enjoys enabling other teams through well engineered, reusable...