The Senior Analytics Engineer will be responsible for product technical ownership within the Analytics library, specifically the Pension Pricing engine. This will involve design, test, and code accountability within the entire product base, and any contributors towards that code within the team.

The Senior Financial Developer within LGR IT has broad analytical risk management knowledge gained within the financial services industry, coupled with an extensive C++ / C# development background. The role can help deliver a number of projects in this space. The role implements models for Pension pricing, ALM, Economic Capital as well as Credit and Market Risk Management, using Agile Continuous Delivery methodologies.

The Senior Analytics Engineer will be responsible for product technical ownership within the Analytics library, specifically the Pension Pricing engine.  This will involve design, test, and code accountability within the entire product base, and any contributors towards that code within the team.

JOB DUTIES:

• Work very closely with the enterprise architects, existing lead infrastructure architects and developers to ensure new development is compatible with existing functionality from both a design and best practice standpoint, and leave no key person risk in the team
• Bridge the gap between business specifications and development by understanding how the models work and being able to collaborate with the business specification owner; support the business in their testing of the models and BAU queries of functionality
• Take ownership of the entire Pension Pricing code base and represent the technical product owner for this system.  This includes being the senior representative of the product within LGR IT, championing good working documentation, and resolving any perception issues
• Engage in peer code reviews and work constructively to continually (and demonstrably) improve the code base; provide continual improvement to the systems
• Able to provide demonstrations, workshops, pilots and conceptual product discussions to enable requirements development
• Provide value of the entire software development lifecycle; analyse system operational processes to determine where software development will aid automation and reduce operational and model risk
• Deliver full unit test coverage of code, drive and own system tests where appropriate, and drive business testing.  Work collaboratively with the entire product team and not in isolation
• To take the lead in all matters with regard to the management of employees, ensuring that management discretion is used in a consistent manner and that the area follows the Group’s policies and procedures including the Partnership Agreement to maximise business performance.
• Define, develop and deliver a strategy and plan to ensure business development activities are delivered in line with Legal & General’s Customer Experience and Treating Customers Fairly policy

REQUIREMENTS:

Qualifications:

• Degree level or equivalent, in a technical or numerate field

Knowledge:

• Building financial engineering systems using bespoke software solutions, with experience of validation of results
• Provision of designs and assistance with the requirements gathering of analytics and cash flow modelling functionality
• Proven ability to address and use initiative to deliver solutions to technical and business problems
• Proven experience in software or database systems development and/or support with experience of project life cycles and complex product installation, customisation and commissioning – as well as validation testing

Skills:

• Modern C++ software development experience and coding skills, open source libraries (C++11/14, Boost), Python/C# beneficial, GUI design an advantage
• In depth knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Expert knowledge of software development in analytical and model risk scenarios
• Capacity to estimate, manage own work and keep within plan
• Continuous Delivery toolkit; Source control, issue management software (Perforce, Subversion, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins)
• Experience with Windows and Linux development environments and tooling (Visual Studio, MSVC, GCC).
• Hands on use of Unix commands / file systems and scripting

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 25 days' holiday (plus one day after two years), private medical insurance, performance related bonuses, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products, your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

For further information about the role, please contact Stacie Burnett, UK Resourcing Lead, at stacie.burnett@landg.com.