Company Description
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.
Job Description
We’re looking for a Senior Dynamics Platform Engineer to join us in either Hove, Cardiff or London!
Joining a newly formed team you’ll be part of a large transformational programme within our Retail division, where you’ll use your software engineering skills and experience to build features, solve bugs, address technical debt, bring a strategic lens to team operating processes and tooling to improve how we work and ultimately deliver valuable, high-quality software to our customers.
What you'll be doing
- Building, clean, maintainable features and resolving end-to-end issues with an understanding of different possible approaches, to ensure that we are delivering great outcomes to our customers as effectively and efficiently as we can. Ensuring that the solutions developed and deployed are fit for purpose, provide appropriate business value, adhere to quality standards and align to standard engineering practices
- Understanding and contributing to the management of technical debt within the team to ensure that Legal & General’s systems are secure, resilient and reliable
- Analysing and defining test approaches/strategies within your team so that the customer experience is of the highest quality – with an emphasis security, usability and accessibility
- Conducting and participating in code reviews with an emphasis on both functional and non-functional requirements – considering performance, resiliency, maintainability and security, to ensure that we consistently build high-quality, safe software for our customers
- Enthusiastically promoting inspection and adaptation to improve team effectiveness & happiness, supporting changes to enhance processes and culture, to ensure that the team stays happy, productive, efficient
- Building a culture of mutual respect, collaboration and engagement within the team - coaching, mentoring and supporting less experienced Engineers to develop and grow their skills.
- Undertaking continuous research on relevant application technologies and identifying and implementing opportunities to incorporate those into the application as appropriate. Sharing your research and learning in Developer forums
Qualifications
What we're looking for
- Intermediate knowledge of two or more of the following is essential:
- Dynamics 365 Customer Service
- Dynamics 365 Sales
- Power Apps
- Power Automate
- Power BI
- SSRS
- Logic Apps
- Azure Data Factory
- A good understanding of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and other release strategies
- Good Knowledge of agile software development methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban, is essential
- Knowledge of web security is preferable
Additional Information
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, 27 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. 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.
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?
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.
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