Junior RPA Developer - 12 month FTC

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. 

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders. 

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income. 

Who we are 

Our Retail business supports customers throughout their lives, to help them save, plan, protect and enjoy retirement.

We’re a leading provider of retirement and protection solutions. We aim to support our c.12.8 million policyholders and workplace members throughout their lifelong financial journeys. 

We focus on helping the customers of today and tomorrow achieve better long-term outcomes. We either talk with them directly or work with intermediaries and employers to meet their needs. We use the latest technology to connect with them quickly, efficiently and wherever possible in highly personalised ways. 

Are you looking further your career in automation within a supportive, forward‑thinking team? Join us as a Junior Automation Engineer and help ensure our automated processes run smoothly, efficiently and reliably. You’ll work with experienced colleagues, grow your technical capability and play an important part in delivering great outcomes for our customers.

What you'll be doing:

• Administering and maintaining the environments that support robotic processes, including running processes, managing VDIs and reviewing logs
• Managing and investigating process exceptions and production incidents, supporting timely resolution of issues
• Supporting the introduction of new automations into production and assisting with testing activities
• Providing operational performance insight, including MI, and continually evaluating the quality and efficiency of automations
• Delivering small BAU changes and fixes to ensure automations continue to meet customer and business needs
• Communicating with stakeholders and helping to manage expectations across the production lifecycle
• Identifying and raising risks, issues and dependencies, and supporting the execution of mitigation actions
• Ensuring compliance with agreed methodologies, standards and governance requirements

Who we're looking for:

• Experience working with digital or automated processes in a production environment
• Understanding of automation concepts and Blue Prism
• Good knowledge of core office software and confidence working with data
• Some understanding of SQL and the ability to run basic database queries
• An interest in or exposure to programming languages that complement automation (e.g. VB, C#)
• Ability to work collaboratively within Agile or DevOps environments
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical information clearly
• A proactive approach, with good analytical skills and a focus on continuous improvement

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
• Healthcare Plan (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.