Senior Cloud Azure Engineer

We are Unio, an established Wealth Management and Employee Benefits business backed by Great-West Lifeco, via its Irish subsidiary Irish Life Group.

Unio specialises in private wealth management and employee benefit consultancy and has over 30 years’ experience advising companies and personal investors.

In total, the firm has over 70,000 members in corporate pension schemes.

Job Overview:

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure our Azure and On Prem environment supports our business objectives, scalability, security and performance requirements.

Our Environment:

Unio Wealth Management's estate is fully cloud-native, featuring:

• Salesforce Financial Services Cloud: Fully integrated with third-party services such as IDPal and DocuSign.
• Experience Cloud: A unique Client Portal in the Irish market.
• Voyant: Financial planning platform.
• Snowflake: Data analytics platform.
• Azure Networks: Hosting our websites, managing authentication with Azure B2C, and handling data integration with Azure Data Factory.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Collaboration: Work closely with IT, development, and operations teams to deliver projects and solutions that meet business needs.
• Develop, Test and Monitor solutions and deployment to ensure good technical health. Ownership of the Continuous Delivery Pipelines.
• Manage and Maintain Business Solutions: Oversee the operation and continuous improvement of cloud-based business solutions hosted on Microsoft Azure.
• Ensure systems reliability by verifying deployments through monitoring and automated testing.
• Monitor and manage cost/utilisation of the environment. This includes ensuring cost efficiency and optimal resource utilization to maintain a balanced budget while achieving performance goals.
• Technical Strategy: Have input into the technical strategy for our Azure application environment, aligning with business objectives and industry best practices. Ensure that solutions align with current and anticipated business objectives.
• Technical Estate: Oversight of Unios On Prem infrastructure, which is managed by GWLE Central Tech Services.
• Scalability, Stability, and Performance: Work on designs that support scalability and performance requirements, optimizing resource utilization and minimizing downtime.
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all architectural designs and implementations.
• Technical representation for Unio at key discussions within Irish Life Group and, as opportunities arise, engage at European and Global levels.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of proven experience in a similar role.
• Excellent collaboration skills, essential for working within your team and engaging with peers across the IS organisation.
• Ability to influence and provide effective support to Senior IS and Business leaders.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, necessary for articulating complex ideas and demystifying technology and systems.
• As strong understanding of Microsoft Azure technologies with the technical capability and experience to learn new technologies and understand relevant cloud trends.
• Good knowledge of Application Engineering, complemented by experience with DevOps and Agile practices.
• Has experience building and monitoring of CI/CD pipelines and SDLC.
• Experience with integration patterns, security best practices, and applications development environments.
• Versatile experience working with various deployment models, including On-Premise, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, and Public Cloud.

• Competitive salary with performance-based bonuses.
• Flexible work options, including remote work.
• Professional development opportunities and support for certification renewals.
• An inclusive, collaborative, and innovative work culture.

Application Process:

• If you’re excited about the opportunity to make a real impact in a dynamic financial services company, we encourage you to apply. Please submit your cv and cover letter, highlighting your relevant experience and interest in joining Unio.
• The Company reserves the right to draw up a shortlist as part of the selection process. This role will be advertised across the Irish Life/Canada Life Group and to the external market. Please note that we will not consider CVs from external recruiters at this time. The selection process employed will be at the discretion of the Company.

Unio Financial Services Ltd. is an Equal Opportunities Employer