Head of Infrastructure Engineering

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.

In Group Technology, we want to help you develop, both professionally and personally, which is why everyone gets at least 12 training days every year. You get to pick what you do, as long as it’s broadly relevant to our work or purpose.  You also get to be part of a community of people with similar skills and interests, so there’s always someone to help. We know our people thrive when they’re doing interesting work and succeeding, so we will stretch you on both ‘what’ you deliver and ‘how’ you deliver it. You’ll have regular performance conversations with your manager, but we’ll also empower you to be personally accountable to achieve great results for yourself, your team, Group Technology and our customers.

We're looking for a Head of Infrastructure Engineering to join us in either London or Hove.

You'll lead the cadre of Infrastructure Engineers that build, deploy and maintain the Infrastructure Products that underpin our application services on which our business depends.

This is a key role that will bring together best thinking and practice from the technology industry and apply it to the needs and strategy of the L&G Businesses. The direction of travel is from traditional infrastructure to standardised and industrialised Infrastructure platform products, defined in code and delivered across hybrid cloud platforms.  

You'll also lead the adoption and maturing of Agile delivery practices by the Infrastructure Engineers – and ensure the development of the technical engineering capabilities necessary to deliver and maintain the required infrastructure products.

What you'll be doing

• Strategy Accountability – Leading the definition and evolution of an Infrastructure Engineering strategy and aligning to the wider Group Technology North Star, divisional strategic roadmaps, and industry standard best practices to ensure our infrastructure products & practices are enablers to the wider L&G strategic goals
• Operational Management & Governance – Taking accountability of Infrastructure Engineering operations, ensuring the Infrastructure Products are reliable, accessible, and compliant to the L&G Technology & InfoSec Risk Management frameworks. Management of Infrastructure Engineering costs, optimised for maximum value to support business sustainability & growth
• Ways of Working – Leading organisational consistency of DevSecOps supporting a common orchestration pipeline so that complexity is reduced, enabling enterprise efficiency, scalability, and sustainability. Driving and role modelling agile mindset and methodology, embedding a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and transparency across the infrastructure engineering community, promoting the reduction of hand-offs and automation to increase velocity and quality
• Resourcing Strategy – Defining the Infrastructure Engineering resourcing strategy that incorporates a hybrid sourcing model (in/outsource, augment) so product teams are resourced appropriately with skilled resources, which can be flexed to support business demand. Promoting and enabling Infrastructure Engineering skills growth, to advance and retain our in-house Infrastructure Engineering specialist capabilities
• Industry Trends - Having visibility of emerging Infrastructure Engineering trends and assessing them to determine suitability and alignment within L&G so that we continually innovate our infrastructure products, ensuring our roadmaps incorporate the adoption of suitable emerging trends

What we're looking for

• You'll be well versed in running Agile Infrastructure Engineering teams
• Experience of deploying Platform Engineering capabilities
• An in-depth understanding of Agile and DevSecOps methodologies, technical understanding of products and their life cycles, and up-to-date knowledge on industry standards and best practices
• Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, budgeting, and risk management
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, API, open data, micro services, event driven IT and predictive analytics and business intelligence/analytics
• Knowledge of Infrastructure technologies, including Data, Voice, Identity Management, Storage, Mainframe, and databases

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 30 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You'll receive a car allowance of 12% of your annual salary, and you can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave.

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.

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.