Technical Business Manager - Apptio Platform

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.

The technology business management team are looking to hire a Technology Business Management Platform Owner due to the growth of the newly formed centralised function, which delivers increased financial transparency to executives, IT and finance owners by communicating the cost, quality and value of IT services through data.

This role will see you responsible for the creation and ownership of the strategy and roadmap for the Apptio financial and business management tool. You will manage the end-to-end lifecycle of the tool including management, maintenance and deployment of changes while ensure data feeds are imported accurately and that reports and dashboards are created and enhanced according to customer demand.

What you'll be doing:

• Developing and communicating a clear vision for the Apptio platform to stakeholders across the business which meets Apptio Technology Business Management process, principles, and tooling recommendations.
• Managing the stability, growth and future enhancement of the platform based on good development practices and ensuring the tool can provide data-led insight into the cost, quality and value of IT services.
• Delivering consistent ingestion and automation of data feeds, validate content, perform data modelling and be responsive to the needs of IT and Business consumers for the data and insight from the tool.
• Taking demand for new features and improvements, create and manage prioritised product backlogs by aligning to business drivers, risk appetite and operational issues to ensure that the delivery team has a constant flow of implementable value-enhancing work.
• Managing the team in accordance with the Company’s policies and procedures, including the Partnership Agreement, so that the team’s business objectives are achieved consistently Communicate business goals to the team and focus their efforts on achieving those goals

• Experience of working in a highly technical environment is essential, with experience of working with public cloud and engineering teams preferable.
• Good understanding of IT infrastructure technologies and technology architecture. Including shared technology function across multiple business divisions using 3rd parties for IT engineering and support capabilities.
• Experience of IT services and financial management processes and best practices such as budgeting, cost allocations, capital & operating expense handling, programme portfolio management, and application/infrastructure support.
• Working experience of data integration with an understanding of data modelling and any practical knowledge of the Apptio platform will be very beneficial.
• Good understanding of IT infrastructure domains and experience of using backlog management tools such as Jira or TFS.
• Understanding of software development lifecycles approaches and concepts of continuous integration and continuous delivery and deployment and Experience of Kanban approach to delivery of change.
• Proven understanding of IT security and governance policies and procedures. And ITIL or Service Management
• Practical skills using formula in Excel and/or Power BI
• Good analytical and data analysis skills

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?

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