Lead BI Engineer

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.

Are you passionate about data engineering and technology management? We are seeking a skilled and motivated Data and Tech Manager to join our dynamic analytics team in Group Internal Audit. In this unique role, you will support our audit practice by building data pipelines, creating dashboards, and performing ad hoc analyses.

You'll work closely with a talented team of analysts, leveraging your expertise in PowerApps and Python to drive impactful projects. This position offers a blend of technical challenges and opportunities for visibility within the organization. If you're ready to make a significant impact and grow your career in a supportive and innovative environment, we want to hear from you!

What you'll be doing:

• Scoping projects, guiding design, and embedding standardised practices and ways of working
• Having expert knowledge of database management systems and understanding data systems within the business, contributing to improvements
• Continuously developing processes to improve performance, ensuring code is scalable, portable, and reusable, and delivering data solutions timely and accurately
• Leading stakeholder management and issue resolution, developing productive relationships, and providing advice on data solutions
• Satisfying ad hoc data requirements from internal customers, acting as a conduit between business and technical teams, and advocating for data engineering best practices
• Ensuring business and system changes follow best practices and the correct change process and methodology, including IT Change Management Standard, including vendor management, licence management etc.
• Managing, motivating, and developing employees at all levels, in line with the Company’s policies and procedures to maximise performance

Who we're looking for:

• Having a degree in an appropriate subject or formal technical qualifications or experience
• Demonstrating a proven track record of delivering structured BI and data warehousing solutions and applying recognised development and design methodologies
• Communicating effectively with all levels of stakeholders and explaining complex data management issues to non-technical stakeholders
• Knowing modern data paradigms within the cloud to maximise business value from data
• Having experience with technologies like SharePoint, SSIS, Power Apps, Tableau, Oracle, MSSQL, Snowflake, Dataiku, and Alteryx
• Having significant hands-on experience in a data/analytics and engineering team with a background in data engineering management
• Demonstrating leadership skills, including clear communication, inspiring vision, logical decision-making, and appreciation of others’ efforts

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   
• Private medical insurance (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 
• 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

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.