Dynamics Platform Engineer

Legal & General supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers. 

We’re recruiting for a Dynamics Platform Engineer to join us. The post holder will join the engineering team where they will use their software engineering skills to build features, solve bugs, address technical debt, improve how we work and ultimately provide valuable, high quality software to our customers. 

What you'll be doing:

• Building, cleaning, 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.
• Understanding and contributing to the management of technical debt within the team to ensure that Legal & General’s systems are secure, resilient and reliable.
• Understanding, contributing, and improving test approaches within your team so that the customer experience is of the highest quality – with an emphasis security, usability and accessibility.
• 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.
• Contributing to work that will continuously improve the team's approaches to security, quality, deployment, monitoring and operations, so that we can easily release and run safe, performant and resilient systems in production.
• Being active in developer team meetings to keep colleagues informed and to create a forum for knowledge sharing. Effectively communicating and continuously collaborating with other team members to support smooth delivery of development activities within the sprint timebox.
• Continuously growing your skills by undertaking relevant training in your role discipline.
• Helping your team to ensure that all customers and stakeholders are treated fairly in line with Legal & General’s principles on the Customer Experience and Treating Customers Fairly policy.

Who we're looking for:

• Intermediate knowledge of two or more of the following is essential:

1. Dynamics 365 Customer Service
2. Dynamics 365 Sales
3. Power Apps
4. Power Automate
5. Power BI
6. SSRS
7. Logic Apps
8. Azure Data Factory

• Good understanding of software testing is essential.
• Good understanding of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and other release strategies is essential.
• Good Knowledge of agile software development methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban, is essential.
• Knowledge of web security is preferable.
• Experience of writing well-optimised and maintainable software features is essential.
• Experience of analysing, debugging and solving complex problems is essential.
• Experience of working effectively in a team is essential
• Experience of taking ownership of your own learning is preferable.

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   
• Private medical insurance (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 
• 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

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming 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 strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.