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Engineering Manager

  1. London
  2. Full-time
  3. IT & Change

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Company Description

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind-the-scenes. It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Comms to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives, and contributing to the success of the business every day.


Job Description

We are looking for a Engineer Manger to join our software delivery team to use their skills and experience to guide the team of engineers. The ideal candidate will guide the successful outcomes of the team, and take a strategic view across adjacent teams for opportunities to standardise approaches to ensure high quality, high value software reaches our customers.  As well as having strong people management skills to guide and advance the learning and development of the team.  The role holder will embrace the L&G culture and model the L&G behaviours of being Straightforward, Collaborative and Purposeful.

What you'll be doing

  • Seeking opportunities to leverage engineering skills and experience across other adjacent engineering teams to ensure that we are delivering great outcomes to our customers as effectively as we can.
  • Using creative problem solving, develop elegant, simple software from complex requirements as part of an Engineering team, in order to create software which can be quickly and easily iterated upon in the future so that Legal and General can deliver high quality features to the market as soon as possible.  Ensure that the solutions developed and deployed are fit for purpose, provide appropriate business value, adhere to quality standards and align to standard engineering practices.
  • Guiding the definition of the strategy for the management of technical debt within the team to ensure that Legal & General’s systems are secure, resilient and reliable.
  • 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.  Seek opportunities to effectively communicate and continuously collaborate with other team members to support smooth delivery of development activities within the sprint timebox.
  • Guiding and partnering with the 'Developer Community' to define software development standards that can be used by our teams to deliver software which meets security, compliance and other audit requirements without slowing down our software development processes.
  • Providing line management and other professional guidance to a group of between two and five engineers, to help them navigate the business and adhere to the Company's policies and procedures, including the Partnership Agreement, so that the team's business objectives are achieved consistently. Coach the team to develop their own long-term goals and objectives around software engineering quality, safety and security so that we continuously improve the software products that we create.
  • 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.

Qualifications

  • Extensive knowledge of software testing frameworks and strategies.
  • Extensive knowledge of CI/CD and associated release strategies.
  • Extensive knowledge of Agile software development methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban.
  • Microservices patterns/ frameworks, Java, Spring or Node.js, web security, REST Services, API security, Docker, Jira, Confluence, TDD, Scrum, Git
  • Writing Code - coaches teams in the techniques used to write clean code. Pairs with engineers when writing production code. Sets non-negotiable expectations in regards to engineering excellence standards. Uses data and measures to uplift code quality
  • Experience of guiding, coaching and mentoring colleagues.
  • Experience of breaking down complex requirements into achievable solutions

Additional Information

Legal & General is a leading financial services organisation, 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’re one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurers. Connecting to form a unique business model which drives value for our customers and society. And enabling our people to create impact through work that is meaningful and valued.  

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 strive to be open, mindful, and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs. 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. 

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

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