Data Solutions - Senior Data Analyst

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

L&G Asset Management is one of Europe’s largest asset managers, providing clients and partners with complex, responsible investment solutions, across public and private markets. As a global investor, we are present where our clients most need us – from Hong Kong and Singapore, to Chicago and major European financial hubs.

Created by combining our investment management (LGIM) and asset origination (LGC) capabilities, our Asset Management division works with our Institutional Retirement and Retail divisions to benefit our clients and customers – which include individual savers, pension scheme members and global institutions – and deliver enhanced shareholder returns.

Joining us means becoming part of a market-leading team, with capabilities across the full spectrum of asset classes, with an enduring commitment to responsible investment and creating long-term, sustainable value for our clients and partners.

Are you passionate about data and its power to transform business outcomes? Join our Chief Data Office (CDO) as a Senior Data Analyst and help shape the future of data services across LGIM and the wider L&G group. You’ll be at the forefront of designing scalable, sustainable data solutions that support strategic goals and deliver real value.

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborating with stakeholders to understand business goals and translate them into data services
• Designing end-to-end data solutions in partnership with business, technology and change teams
• Gathering and documenting requirements through user stories, features and epics
• Delivering analysis artefacts including data flows, service descriptions and mapping specifications
• Investigating data issues and identifying root causes with cross-functional teams
• Developing data controls and supporting user acceptance testing
• Estimating analysis effort and supporting delivery planning
• Contributing to the delivery of the enterprise-wide data strategy

Who we’re looking for:

• Experience working on data projects within the asset management industry
• Strong analytical skills and experience in requirements gathering and service design
• Knowledge of financial products, data domains and governance principles
• Collaborative approach with experience working across multi-disciplinary teams
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and user story development
• Ability to analyse complex data flows and map data movement
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• A proactive, adaptable mindset with a passion for data-driven value creation

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.