Enterprise Architect

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 are seeking a talented Enterprise Architect to steer L&G's strategic technology direction. This role involves delivering business-focused analysis and insights into the current IT landscape to inform investment plans for business capabilities. The Enterprise Architect will define business capability roadmaps and drive optimization of the application portfolio. The successful candidate will ensure that L&G makes technology decisions that maximise investment value while managing risk exposure.

What you'll be doing:

• Work with senior managers and business stakeholders to develop multi-year business capability driven roadmaps that outline the evolution of technology and processes to meet strategic objectives. Continuously refine and adjust roadmaps based on changing business conditions, market trends, and organisational needs
• Conduct assessments of the IT landscape to understand existing architectures, capabilities, and constraints. Provide recommendations for investment, modernisation, consolidation and decommissioning to deliver an optimised IT landscape based on business goals and industry best practices
• Enhancing and maintaining the Enterprise Architecture repository as part of the extended IT Management Data landscape. Create insights and visualisation for business and IT managers
• Maintain a view of the technology industry and market trends to highlight their potential impact on the Group Functions architecture
• Contribute to architectural standards, frameworks, and guidelines to maintain consistency and quality across the organisation. Communicate architectural decisions effectively to stakeholders, providing clear rationale and demonstrating business impact
• Responsible for identifying and maintaining regular written and in-person communications with key stakeholders. Able to adapt styles when needed to achieve required interaction and investment from others. Comfortable communicating effectively across technical topics with non-technical audiences
• Collaborate across disciplines within Divisions and across the whole of L&G to align architecture philosophies, processes, frameworks, and communities that reduce risk and deliver shareholder value
• Ensure that the appropriate MI, process and systems are in place to provide support to other business areas so that customers are treated fairly, in line with Legal & General’s Customer Experience and Treating Customers Fairly policy (TCF)

Who we're looking for:

• Expertise in business capability-centric enterprise architecture and roadmap design
• Extensive knowledge and experience in IT governance and industry standards
• Proficiency in business models, operating models, financial models, budgeting, and risk management
• Skilled in architecture governance using enterprise architecture artifacts, including principles, policies, views, viewpoints, building blocks, and guardrails
• Ability to develop and project a positive image of the IT function and company through effective interpersonal, written, and verbal communications to diverse audiences
• Proven practical approach in supporting the business to achieve its vision and targeted outcomes through innovative IT solutions
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, adept at building engagement, delivering difficult messages, and promoting the architectural vision
• Recognised thought leader in Enterprise Architecture, capable of painting a compelling image of future IT capabilities and their desirability

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 (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.