IF

Tech Squad Lead

Turku Full time

Are you an experienced C#/.NET developer looking for the next step in your career? We are on the lookout for someone to lead a team of developers managing applications that are critical to both our business and our customers.

About the role

We are looking for a Lead Developer to take a central role in driving the development and delivery of Pricing Engine Finland initiative. In this role, you will guide a team of skilled developers, acting as both mentor and technical lead. You’ll collaborate closely with key stakeholders including the Product Owner, Tribe Architect, IT Delivery Manager and Business Analysts. Together, you’ll ensure that our solutions are aligned with If’s architectural principles and long-term strategy.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of the applications that support the core systems, contribute to modernizing legacy platforms, and make a lasting impact on how we deliver value to our customers.

You will: 

  • Lead the technical delivery of Pricing Engine Finland initiative, ensuring design, development, and maintenance of stable and secure solution 

  • Translate business requirements into efficient technical solutions 

  • Act as a bridge between business experts, technical developers in Finland, Norway and India, and architectural teams 

  • Ensure consistent coding standards, version control, security and documentation practices 

  • Mentor and guide developers, promoting learning and adherence to Agile and DevOps principles. Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, and monitoring 

  • Drive modernization activities such as API enablement for integration between cloud-based and mainframe systems 

  • Ensure optimal usage and cost management of Azure resources

We offer

Here are some of the benefits of working at If: 

  • An including work environment where everyone is welcome 

  • Career and development opportunities in the biggest insurance company in the Nordics 

  • Social activities, as well as highly skilled professional environment 

  • Possibility of hybrid workplace 

  • Health promoting workplace with e.g., wellness allowance 

  • Great insurance benefits 

  • Lunch benefit

About the Core Tribe 

The Core Tribe is responsible for maintaining and evolving our business-critical insurance and claims systems. The Tribe operates cross-functionally across Finland and Norway, organized into smaller squads combining business domain experts with IT professionals.

Our IT development teams include colleagues from If’s internal IT units as well as strategic partners such as Tata Consultancy Services, ensuring seamless collaboration across Finland, Norway and India. 

Orthrus squad is one of the squads in the Core Tribe. The mission of this squad is to build a modern Pricing Engine to Norway and Finland. It’s responsible for calculating premium prices (new sale, regulations, re-instate, renewals) for insurance policies for BA Private’s products in Norway and Finland.

As the Lead Developer for this squad, your first task is to develop and deliver Pricing Engine to Finland and after that maintain and further develop both Norwegian and Finnish Pricing engines together with other squad members.

 

Who are you? 

You are a technically strong and forward-thinking developer with a passion for quality and long-term solutions. You bring a combination of deep technical expertise and leadership skills that enable you to guide your team and collaborate effectively across roles in an Agile setup. 
 
We also believe you have a quality-minded approach to development with a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement mindset. You can understand and work with the big picture in your mind. You possess strong communication skills across technical and business domains. When designing and evaluating solutions you apply an architectural perspective and when a problem appears you are fast to apply a collaborative, transparent, and pragmatic approach to solve it.

You also have: 

  • Solid experience with C#, .NET, and Azure application development and maintenance 

  • Familiarity with enterprise solutions, REST APIs, and message-based architecture 

  • Experience working with both Azure and on-premise solutions 

  • Good knowledge and practical use of Infrastructure as Code (for example Terraform or Bicep) 

  • Hands-on experience with tools such as Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines 

  • Experience with authentication and authorization solutions including OAuth2, Curity and Identify Providers

Considered a plus: 

  • Experience with static code and security analysis tools such as SonarQube and Snyk 

  • Experience applying OWASP Top 10 in design, development, and risk assessment of applications 

  • Python and Databricks competence 

  • Familiarity with integration patterns between distributed systems and IBM z Mainframe

Additional facts and the recruitment process

Application deadline: Screening and interviewswill startimmediately. However,applicationdeadline is the 18th of May 2026. 

To apply for the position: Please attach yourCV and answer the questions in the application form. 

Work location: Turku, Finland. 

Start:By agreement.

For more information, please contact  Juha Kortelainen, Head of Local Core Insurance Solutions Finland, juha.kortelainen@if.fi.

Final candidates will undergo a background check before employment.

 

We look forward to your application!