Technical Lead - AWS

Legal & General supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers. 

We are seeking an AWS Technical Lead to join its software delivery team. This role calls for a seasoned professional to guide and mentor a team of highly skilled engineers, while also contributing their own technical expertise to our projects. As a Technical Authority, the successful candidate will shape strategic decisions within and across teams, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, valuable software to our customers. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact.

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborating with other Technical Leaders to develop long-term strategies that enhance product quality, security, performance, observability, and maintainability across Group Technology development teams.
• Serving as a Technical Authority within and across multiple teams, addressing complex coding and engineering challenges in a way that provides lasting benefits to the company and our customers.
• Developing software that can be quickly and easily iterated upon, enabling the company to bring high-quality features to market swiftly. Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, provide significant business value, adhere to quality standards, and align with standard engineering practices.
• Coordinating and overseeing technical work across multiple development teams to minimise duplication, enhance collaboration, and provide clear progress updates, ensuring smooth delivery of cross-cutting concerns.
• Continuously researching relevant technologies, identifying and implementing opportunities to integrate them as appropriate. Leveraging your knowledge of technology options and survey the external market landscape for insights, direction, and vendors, keeping our applications up-to-date, relevant, and efficient, and delivering value to the business and end-users.
• Analysing technology solution alternatives, evaluating associated benefits, costs, and risks. Conducting gap analyses and develop proof of concepts for new solutions.

Who we're looking for:

• Extensive knowledge of software testing frameworks and strategies.
• In-depth understanding of CI/CD, release strategies, and secure development practices.
• Proficient in Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, with experience in Microservices patterns and frameworks.
• Proficiency in Java, Spring, or Node.js, along with web security, REST services, API security, Docker, Jira, Confluence, TDD, Scrum, and Git.
• Experience as a technical contributor within a development team.
• Skilled in conducting effective code reviews.
• Proven ability to contribute to maintainable software features.
• Expertise in analysing, debugging, and solving complex problems.

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.