Engineering Manager - Java

Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, aiming to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone and create value for our shareholders.

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best. 

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

We have an exciting new opportunity for Engineering Manager to join our group function on a 9 month fixed term contract. The role holder will use their skills and experience to guide the team of engineers, as well as your excellent technical skills to contribute to work of the team. 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. 

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Seeking 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.
• Coaching 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

Who we're looking for:

• Technology-focused degree level qualifications are desirable.
• Experience is of principle importance to this role.
• An advanced understanding of software testing is essential.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and associated release strategies is essential.
• Knowledge of Agile software development methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban, is essential.
• Knowledge of web security is preferable.
• Experience working as a technical contributor within a development team is essential
• Experience of participating and providing actionable feedback in effective code reviews is essential
• Experience of contributing to maintainable software features is essential.
• Experience of analysing, debugging and solving difficult problems is essential.
• Experience of guiding, coaching and mentoring colleagues is essential.
• Experience of breaking down complex requirements into achievable solutions is essential.
• Experience of managing technical individuals or whole teams is essential.

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.