Lead Engineer

What can you expect? Marsh is the insurance broking and risk management business of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC), a global professional services firm, headquartered in New York. Marsh Tech is seeking to appoint a hands-on, delivery oriented, Lead Engineer. This is a leadership role within the Marsh Product Development & Engineering team (PDE) and is based in the MMC Innovation Centre in Dublin. The role of the Lead Engineer is to guide the engineering team in the development of advanced, innovative, scalable, secure, and user-centric solutionsthat delight our business colleagues and customers. You will drive the technical direction of the software product to deliver to business needs and fully embrace and incorporate the use of AI tooling in the engineering process. We are looking for candidates who have the aptitude, ability and willingness to experiment with and productionise new technologies to deliver software solutions that bring the best of what tech can offer to our business colleagues and users. Your leadership will ensure the products are built with best practices, focusing on security, performance, maintainability, and innovative AI integration This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to lead and shape strategic technology capabilities for Marsh. We will count on you to: Lead and inspire engineering teams: Manage and mentor a small team of experienced and AI-enabled full-stack engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, quality, and continuous is a hands-on role, where you will lead by example and show by doing. Design and build innovative enterprise solutions:Develop scalable, secure and robust full-stack applications that utilise the latest technology, including AI, to deliver business value and competitive advantage. Set and deliver the technology roadmap: work closely with product managers, architects, and other stakeholders to understand the opportunity domain and align the engineering team with business goals. Lead automation and innovation in the software engineering process: AI is revolutionising the software engineering process and we are looking for leaders who embrace these opportunities and can lead colleagues and teams on the transformation journey. Collaborate across teams: work with other technology groups and stakeholders to ensure alignment with and continuous improvement of firm-wide capabilities, tooling, standards and processes. Stay relevant in the technology conversation: our world is changing as never before, and we need engaged and inspiring leaders to keep us at the forefront of innovation. What you need to have: Can demonstrate the leadership skills to build and lead distributed technology teams working on complex problems, and enterprise scale business critical systems. Cloud native engineering experience. We use a standard modern tech stack, but your attitude and general experience are more important to us than knowledge of specific technologies. An agile approach to software development, including an incremental delivery mindset; comfortable working with distributed teams. Experience of modern cloud application architectures, in environments focused on achieving a high degree of re-use. Enthusiastic about leveraging AI in the software development process, with a passion for building solutions that incorporate AI-enabled components. What makes you stand out: Your problem solving and critical thinking skills: you can simplify complexity, and bring creative, elegant solutions to solve complex challenges. Full-stack experience is a plus, but a willingness to work across front-end or back-end is just as valuable. You can 'talk business'. You don't need to be an insurance expert, but you can collaborate effectively with non-technical colleagues and rapidly relate business opportunities to the technology that will deliver them. Your experience with large scale, business critical globally deployed solutions. Great communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable working in a distributed environment, with an ability to form great working relationships across teams, locations, and time zones. 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 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. Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit or follow on LinkedIn and X. Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing 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, Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable support to any candidate with a disability/health condition to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. We welcome candidates to contact us at to discuss any specific needs. Marsh McLennan 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 McLennan 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. To be considered for this role you will be redirected to and must complete the application process on our careers page. To start the process, click the Apply button below to Login/Register.