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Integration Technical Lead

  1. Hove
  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 have an amazing opportunity for an Integration Technical Lead to join us in Hove!

This is a new role within our Application Services team where you’ll provide technical leadership, guidance, and expertise in the development, deployment, standardisation and management of integration-based technologies and services. Working closely with Architecture, Portfolio and Product Management teams you’ll help shape a high performing technical capability for Service Delivery and through Project Delivery (Waterfall and Agile methodology)

If you’re looking for an opportunity to lead from the front and bring your knowledge and ideas to the table, then this could be the ideal next move for you!

We will consider applications from all over the UK however there is an expectation to travel into our Hove office.

What you’ll be doing

  • Delivering strong technical leadership in advancing Group Functions integration capability and delivery. Ensuring alignment to standards in quality, development lifecycle, security, service continuity, commercial outcomes, governance, policy, processes and tools
  • Developing and leading a high performing team, nurturing individual growth.  Acting as a mentor and coach to the team members, providing guidance on technical skills, career development and personal growth.  Being accountable for individual performance management in collaboration with Portfolio, Architecture and Product Managers
  • Leading and delivering Low Level Designs related to integration delivery.  Working with IT Operations, Data and Analytics, Architecture, and Security teams to ensure that solutions are designed and delivered against the enterprise architecture, security standards and successfully transitioned into production
  • Leading, developing, and evolving an Integration Delivery Roadmap taking into consideration all work taking place within the capability such as Patching, Upgrades, Projects, Change and Critical Change Freeze periods working in strong collaboration with the Group Technology, Portfolio, Product Managers and Architecture Team
  • Contributing to the IT delivery sourcing strategy that both complements and supplements the internal IT Solutions team considering skills, people development, costs and customer demand.  Taking an active lead in the management of third-party delivery partners ensuring compliance to standards and effective delivery in relation to Integration Services
  • Working with the Portfolio and Product Management team to plan and allocate resources effectively, ensuring the Integration Capability has the necessary skills, flexibility and capacity to meet objectives
  • Working in collaboration with the Service Management team, developing and maintaining a Service Catalogue for Integration Service with aligned service standards (KPI/SLAs).  Ensuring capability is in place to deliver against commitments and that service standards are achieved and continuously improved
  • Driving proactive continuous improvements within the Integration Capability service to increase resilience, reduce risk, improve customer satisfaction and drive down total cost of ownership

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

  • Strong knowledge in integration design, development and management of APIs, Web Services (REST/SOAP), messaging protocols and data formats.  Oracle Integration Cloud knowledge would also be desirable
  • Knowledge of Cloud integration patterns and best practices for integrating cloud-based applications, platforms and services with on-premise systems.  Strong knowledge of cloud-native integration technologies and services provided in AWS and Azure.
  • Strong knowledge of DevOps principles and practices for automating integration deployment, testing and operation.  Including CI/CD pipelines, version control and configuration management.
  • Good experience of delivering integration services in an on-premise and cloud environment.
  • Proven to adapt to different delivery methods: waterfall, Agile or similar structured methodologies
  • Leading the development of people within a technical environment.
  • Experience in aligning a service that utilises in house capability supplemented by 3rd parties to drive efficient and effective operating models.

Additional Information

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, 27 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.

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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