This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest European investment management businesses. LGIM is currently on a digital transformation journey and require a talented individual to take responsibility for a number of end-to-end technology solutions to deliver strategic business outcomes.

The candidate will be required to put forward an all-encompassing vision for target state technology solutions for the initiatives, and work with a number of development teams spanning multiple technologies to ensure its implementation.

The person filling this position will interact with a number of people in IT and the business, so good verbal as well as written communication skills are of paramount importance.

The candidate must be able to identify and resolve issues that are creating inefficiencies or hindering progress proactively.

Principal Responsibilities

Design Ownership

• Producing and owning the end-to-end design of the solution spanning multiple software components (evidencing at all points how the design answers the requirements – clear traceability)
• Working with development teams to ensure detailed component-level design responds to the end-to-end design
• Working with the Enterprise Architects to ensure that data and functional architectures adhere to the high-level architecture principles and support target state vision for the enterprise
• Working with the IT Infrastructure implementation team to make sure that planned infrastructure adequately supports the software components of the solution

Requirements

• Working closely with Product Owners and Business Analysts to help translate desired business outcomes into robust system requirements, both functional and non-functional

Development & Testing:

• Facilitate and participate in detailed design reviews and ensure that all components of the solution are aligned to the target state vision
• Working with the testing team to support the definition and implementation of the testing strategy for the initiative

Software Delivery

• Working with component developers to elicit, validate and refine estimates for developing the software components
• Planning and coordination of deployment activities across multiple technology platforms
• Overall accountability for delivering technology change is shared with IT project managers

Academic Qualifications:        

• Educated to degree level

Experience:

• Substantial experience in software/application development with progressively increasing responsibilities and long-term engagements with employers
• Track record of designing and delivering solution architecture for data-intensive initiatives spanning multiple technologies, delivered over the course of 2-3 years, and budgeted above £5m
• Experience implementing and integrating 3rd party packages as part of technology solutions
• Experience with Agile delivery methodologies; working knowledge of the SAFe framework would be a plus
• Practical understanding and experience of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Understanding of the fundamentals of the investment management industry

Specialist knowledge/skills:

• Excellent understanding and practical experience of defining, designing and implementing Microservices in an enterprise environment
• Excellent understanding and practical experience of cloud technologies, including PaaS, container platforms (Docker and Kubernetes), Serverless, etc. Experience with Red Hat Openshift and AWS of significant benefit
• Experience of Business Process Management (BPM) tools and techniques; ideally using Pega and Red Hat BPM Suite
• Experience with a range of modern enterprise application integration technologies such as Apache Camel and MuleSoft
• Knowledge of enterprise messaging technologies
• Knowledge of UX/UI design and technologies
• In addition it would be a plus to have exposure to:
  • Big Data technology stacks
  • Data management and data quality tools

Competence/Characteristics:

• Self-starter
• Visual thinker able to communicate effectively with diagrams
• Good facilitation skills, ability to broker an agreement on a contentious issue
• Proactive, ‘can learn’/‘can do’ attitude
• Team & customer focused
• Good attention to detail
• Intellectual honesty

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 25 days' holiday, private medical insurance, performance related bonuses, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products, your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.