Senior Actuarial Systems Lead – DB Pensions

Legal & General; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus plan

Share schemes

Pension plan

Life assurance

Healthcare plan

27 days holiday

Holiday buy/sell

Family leave

Electric car scheme

Employee discounts

Net-zero offices

Job summary

Legal & General is seeking a Defined Benefit - Actuarial Services Manager to join the Award-Winning Pension Risk Transfer team. You will help translate complex pension scheme benefits into robust system specifications and work with actuarial, technology and client services colleagues to deliver accurate calculations.

The role blends actuarial expertise with systems development, offering hybrid working between home and office, and opportunities to influence critical retirement solutions for

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 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

Defined benefit pensions

Pension scheme rules

System integration

Analytical judgement

Autonomous working

Agile/Lean

Education

Actuarial qualification

Tools

Java

SQL

Job description

Legal & General is seeking a Defined Benefit - Actuarial Services Manager to join the Award-Winning Pension Risk Transfer team. You will help translate complex pension scheme benefits into robust system specifications and work with actuarial, technology and client services colleagues to deliver accurate calculations.

The role blends actuarial expertise with systems development, offering hybrid working between home and office, and opportunities to influence critical retirement solutions for