Infrastructure Architect - AWS

The world of investment is changing. Our vision at Legal & General Investment Management is to create a better, more sustainable future through responsible investing. We work in partnership with our clients around the globe to deliver positive long-term outcomes, while rising to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Our clients include institutional pension funds, financial institutions, local authorities and sovereign wealth funds. To meet our clients’ complex and evolving investment needs, our investment strategies cover a broad array of asset classes and styles, including equities, bonds, property and alternatives, as well as multi-asset funds. We’re focused on continuously innovating our investment products, maintaining our reputation as experts across all asset classes, and striving to build a more responsible and sustainable future.

Legal & General Investment Management have an exciting opportunity for a Infrastructure Architect to define and communicate Legal & General’s shared technical and architectural vision across projects and portfolios to help ensure the system or infrastructure under development is fit for purpose. You will have a critical role within the Architecture function, focus on Infrastructure Delivery competency and aligning the many solutions to a shared technical direction.

What you'll be doing

• Deliver project work (both strategic and tactical) in compliance with relevant Technical Architecture, ensuring solutions are successfully delivered and fit for purpose
• Work with all necessary IT and Business staff to establish target Technical Architecture and migration paths based on business requirements, IT strategies and good value for money
• Implement and maintain the necessary artefacts (including principles, policies, standards, roadmaps and strategies) and tools required to support a coherent set of Technical Architecture
• Actively research and monitor technological developments that would improve IT within LGIM by reducing cost and/or improving functionality in line with business requirements
• Take ownership and provide technical governance/consultancy for specialist area(s) and any architectural issues within that area(s)
• Provide technical consultancy to infrastructure and development teams where necessary to assist with project delivery and/or problem resolution

• Excellent understanding and skills in Technical Architecture and an understanding of IT, Information Security and its application to provide and extend business capability
• Demonstrable experience working with AWS
• Lots of experience designing identity, governance and monitoring solutions, data storage solutions and business continuity solutions
• Hands on experience of building and architecting Technical solutions including deep knowledge of Cloud native services
• An ability to simplify and communicate complex information to senior stakeholders
• Confident using Agile principles and working in an iterative, fast paced development environment
• Good knowledge of Redhat (RHEL), Microsoft Windows, Storage and Networking
• Confident working effectively with senior business stakeholders and partnering with suppliers
• A comprehensive understanding of technology automation solutions to improve deployment speed and delivery capability.
• Significant experience of introducing DevOps controls and approaches, where software development and the ongoing operation of production environments are incorporated into the software development lifecycle.
• Able to work collaboratively with the Global engineering teams, colleagues across the business and various external partners

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, at least 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. 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. 

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.