Defined Benefit Pensions Technical Services Lead

LegalAndGeneral; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus plan

Life assurance

27 days holiday plus holidays

Share schemes

Electric car scheme

Discounts

Net-zero carbon offices

Flexible working

Job summary

Legal & General (L&G) is seeking a Defined Benefit - Technical Services Manager to join our Pension Risk Transfer business in London. The role focuses on translating complex defined benefit pension rules into precise system and calculation specifications, working closely with actuarial, technology and client services teams.

You will help translate scheme benefits into robust logic for developers, ensuring accuracy, security and fit-for-purpose delivery.

Qualifications

• Qualified actuary or strong actuarial systems/development experience.
• Strong knowledge of defined benefit pensions, including scheme benefits and calculation rules.
• Experience interpreting pension scheme requirements and turning them into clear technical or calculation specifications.
• Confidence working with complex integrated systems, including calculation engines, databases, web-based applications and connected services.
• Strong analytical judgement, attention to detail and problem-solving ability.
• Ability to work autonomously while collaborating well with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Understanding of testing, change delivery, Agile, Lean or business analysis principles.
• Familiarity with Java, SQL or similar languages would be advantageous—although hands on development experience is not required.

Responsibilities

• Translating defined benefit pension scheme rules into detailed system and calculation specifications.
• Supporting the development and release of changes to integrated calculation systems, applications and supporting services.
• Working with developers and technical partners to explain calculation logic and expected system behaviours.
• Reviewing system outputs and testing results to make sure calculations are accurate and fit for purpose.
• Applying actuarial judgement to complex pensions, systems and testing queries.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across Institutional Retirement, Group IT and operational teams.
• Identifying opportunities to improve processes, controls, documentation and customer outcomes.
• Supporting operational readiness for system changes, releases and wider business needs.

Skills

Actuarial systems

Pensions knowledge

Requirements interpretation

Complex integration

Analytical judgement

Autonomous with collaboration

Testing & delivery

Java/SQL familiarity

Tools

Java

SQL

Job description

Legal & General (L&G) is seeking a Defined Benefit - Technical Services Manager to join our Pension Risk Transfer business in London. The role focuses on translating complex defined benefit pension rules into precise system and calculation specifications, working closely with actuarial, technology and client services teams.

You will help translate scheme benefits into robust logic for developers, ensuring accuracy, security and fit-for-purpose delivery.