Junior IT Architect

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.

We have new and exciting opportunity for an Junior IT Architect who will be joining a highly technical and collaborative team. The role holder will support a wide range of architectural activities across the Group Architecture Practice. These include providing support to our Business Architecture, IT Architecture Delivery and Technology Governance capabilities, through activities like: running discovery workshops, synthesising design inputs, applying simple design patterns, assuring simpler designs and working with architecture tooling.

What you'll be doing 

• Solution Design – Producing simple solution designs and adopt basic patterns independently or support complex designs working alongside experienced and specialist architects.
• Assure Solutions – Supporting assurance processes that ensure solutions meet our business needs and minimise risk. Being able to evaluate simple solutions against pre-defined assessment criteria.
• Accurate Documentation and Record Keeping – Producing architecture artefacts, e.g. high-level designs, key decision documents. Ensuring Enterprise Architecture tooling records are updated and accurate.
• Solutions Delivery – Collaborating with project teams and Subject Matter Experts (SME) to support delivery. E.g. assurance of lower-level designs.
• Provide Clarity on Architecture Processes and Services - Offering guidance to individuals or projects on what architecture is, how to access our services and when we should be engaged.
• Improving the Discipline – Supporting improvement initiatives that mature the architecture discipline, e.g. supporting tooling improvements, or optimising processes.
• Ensuring business and system changes follow best business practices and the correct change process and methodology, including the IT Change Management Standard.

• Appropriate qualifications in technical change or technology related subjects are desirable, but not essential. Alternatively, an academic background in technical subjects is desirable.
• An understanding of architecture and how it adds value
• Knowledge in technical subjects (e.g. data, systems, software, engineering) is a plus
• Understanding of technology trends
• A curiosity for architecture

Experience of the following:

• Communicating effectively with stakeholders, adapting style and content as necessary to land messages.
• Working in or with technical teams (e.g. engineering, software, security, change management)
• Building successful working relationships and team dynamics in a matrix environment
• Practical, common-sense delivery of successful, collaborative solutions
• Balancing day-to-day delivery with improving processes and work

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.