Data Science Platform Engineer

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. 

We now have an amazing opportunity, which we're really excited about here at Legal & General, titled Data Science Platform Engineer which is a critical role within the DataOps function of the Group and will be responsible for defining & communicating L&G retail technical and engineering vision across projects & portfolios to help ensure Data Science Platforms under development are fit for their intended purpose. The role will be responsible for aligning the platform eco-system and solutions to a shared technical direction.  

During our selection process, we'll be looking for the following experience, knowledge and capabilities;

Experience

• Experience bridging the gap between Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Architects, DevOPs and Cloud Engineers
• Experience of designing, implementing, and maintaining continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment pipelines for machine learning applications
• Azure Cloud Certifications or equivalent qualification desirable, or relevant industry experience.
• Data Science or Machine Learning Engineering skills

Knowledge

• Good understanding and skills in Data Science eco-system including data engineering
• Knowledge of Posit and Alteryx 
• Good Cloud Infrastructure skills and an understanding of how to build Data Science platforms within Azure Cloud
• Good understanding of data engineering and data ecosystems
• Good understanding of data cleansing, data preparation, data processing
• Programming languages and techniques for visualising data
• Experience of designing and implementing machine learning model engineering frameworks, solutions and best practices
• CI / CD pipelines, manage the deployment and version management of data science models (GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps)

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.