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VN-25177
Permanent
Hove or London (Hybrid)
Competitive salary, plus benefits and incredible performance related bonus scheme
2 April 2023
Legal & General Retail have an exciting opportunity for a Cloud Architect to define and communicate Legal & General’s shared technical and architectural vision across projects and portfolios to help ensure the system or infrastructure under development is fit for purpose. You will have a critical role within the Architecture function, focus on Infrastructure Delivery competency and aligning the many solutions to a shared technical direction.
- Collaborating within Agile teams to elaborate the infrastructure solution, validate technology assumptions and evaluate implementation alternatives
- Participating in Personal Investment planning, definition and high-level design of the solution and exploration of solution alternatives
- Designing infrastructure solutions for specific projects as well as contributing to building an Architecture Repository
- Documenting the Cloud architecture, analysis technical trade-offs, determining the primary components and subsystems, identifying the interfaces and interactions between them
- Maintaining an Architecture Runway and helping define and prioritise enablers
- Operating mainly within the context of the value stream and providing technical enablement concerning subsystems and capability
- Excellent understanding and skills in Cloud Architecture (Azure) and an understanding of IT, Information Security and its application to provide and extend business capability
- Lots of experience designing identity, governance and monitoring solutions, data storage solutions and business continuity solutions
- Hands on experience of building and architecting Cloud solutions including deep knowledge of Cloud native services
- A strong understanding with hands on experience of architecting Integration patterns and specifically experience with APIs
- Confident using Agile principles and working in an iterative, fast paced development environment
- Good knowledge of authentication and authorisation patterns and technologies including Azure Active Directory, hands on experience with Azure Enterprise Scale, Network Security Groups, KeyVault and AzureDevOps
- Confident working effectively with senior business stakeholders and partnering with suppliers
When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.
If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 30 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You'll receive a car allowance of 12% of your annual salary, and you can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave.
You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.
About L&G
The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.
Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands.
We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.
We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.
At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.
Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?
About the business area
Life can sometimes be unpredictable, and it pays to plan ahead. Our aim at Legal & General Retail is to help our customers plan for the unexpected, achieve financial security for their tomorrow, and protect everything that’s important to them. To better understand our customers and meet their needs, we’ve brought our protection, retirement income, savings, lending and advice, fintech and mortgage businesses under one umbrella. Created at the start of 2022 through the merging of our long-standing and trusted retail retirement and insurance businesses, we’re a fast-growing division with big, customer-centered ambitions.
Our commitment to Equal Opportunities
Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.
We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.
We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.
We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.
So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.
How to find out more
If this opportunity excites you but you’re not sure you meet all the requirements, or you’d like to know a bit more, please contact Anastasia Liasi at anastasia.liasi@landg.com (LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasia-liasi-051044102/).
If you’d like to be considered for this role, please submit your application through our careers website as we’re not accepting email applications.
