Technology Solutions Lead - B2B

Standard Life plc; Telford; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover

38 days annual leave

Excellent pension

Life assurance 12x salary

Career breaks

Income protection

Volunteering days

Job summary

Standard Life plc is seeking a Technology Solutions Lead to partner with B2B and Retail Intermediated Digital, translating priorities into technical solutions and executable delivery plans. You will lead across Digital, Product, Architecture, Data, API and third-party suppliers, owning end-to-end technical views and ensuring secure, resilient implementations.

Your focus includes adviser digital ecosystem and reusable integrations that connect external partners to Standard Life services, evolving

Qualifications

• Experience leading digital/platform change for adviser/intermediary environments.
• Ability to translate business outcomes into technical backlogs and designs.
• Proficiency with modern software engineering practices including secure development and automation.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management across multiple teams and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Translate adviser, partner and commercial outcomes into technical options and backlogs.
• Own end-to-end technical solution for initiatives across digital experiences and APIs.
• Provide technical leadership across squads, architects and suppliers.
• Shape reusable integration capabilities for advisers and distribution channels.
• Create credible technical plans with delivery readiness and dependencies.

Skills

Technical leadership

Digital platforms & APIs

Solution design & backlog

DevSecOps & CI/CD

Security by design

Stakeholder leadership

Communication

Tools

APIs

Cloud platforms

CI/CD tooling

Observability tools

Job description

Job Description

Job Type

Permanent

Location

Hybrid working, London, Birmingham, Telford or Edinburgh.

Flexible working

All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here.

Closing Date

16/11/26

Salary and benefits

£75,000–£85,000 plus an indicative bonus range of 16-32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

Who are we?

We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.

Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards. We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.

The role

As Technology Solutions Lead for B2B and Retail Intermediated Digital, you will be the lead technology partner for a business-aligned digital function focused on adviser, partner and intermediated customer outcomes. You will translate product and commercial priorities into coherent technical solutions and executable delivery plans, working across Digital, Product, Architecture, Data, API and Integration teams, core platform owners and third-party suppliers.

Your initial focus will include the adviser digital ecosystem and emerging B2B strategy priorities, together with reusable integrations that connect external partners and adviser technologies to Standard Life services and data. The remit is deliberately broader than any single journey or platform and will evolve with the B2B roadmap.

You will own the end-to-end technical view for agreed initiatives, take designs to buildable detail, identify dependencies and risks early, and support teams through delivery, governance and route to live. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role: you will challenge constructively, help solve difficult problems and ensure solutions are secure, resilient, supportable and aligned with strategic architecture and engineering standards.

Key Accountabilities

• Partner with B2B and Retail Intermediated Digital leaders and Product Owners to translate adviser, partner and commercial outcomes into clear technical options, target designs and prioritised delivery backlogs.
• Own the end-to-end technical solution for agreed initiatives across digital experiences, APIs, integration, data, identity, cloud services, core platforms and third-party technologies, taking designs to buildable detail.
• Provide technical leadership across squads, platform teams, architects and suppliers, aligning dependencies, resolving technical ambiguity and driving complex issues through to clear decisions and outcomes.
• Shape reusable integration capabilities for advisers, partners and distribution channels, avoiding unnecessary point solutions and aligning change to the Digital Spine, shared data and API direction.
• Work with Product Owners and Delivery Leads to create credible plans, sequence technical work, manage delivery risks and maintain a clear view of readiness, dependencies and technical outcomes.
• Apply and promote modern engineering practices including secure-by-design development, DevSecOps, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability and reliable route-to-live controls.
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements for security, resilience, performance, availability, recoverability, data protection, supportability and regulatory control.
• Navigate architecture, security, service and design governance, recording significant decisions and ensuring exceptions or technical debt have visible owners and proportionate remediation plans.
• Use evidence to assess solution options and trade-offs across customer and adviser value, delivery feasibility, reuse, whole-life cost, operational risk and supplier impact.
• Coach engineers and technical leads, share reusable patterns and learning, and contribute to stronger engineering capability across Digital Engineering and delivery partners.

What are we looking for?

• Strong experience providing end-to-end technical leadership for digital products, platforms or complex technology-enabled change, ideally in adviser, intermediary, partner or other B2B environments.
• Broad technical knowledge across modern digital applications, APIs, integration, data and cloud technologies, with the ability to work effectively across both strategic platforms and legacy estates.
• Experience translating business, product and customer outcomes into solution options, target designs, technical backlogs and credible delivery plans involving multiple teams and suppliers.
• Practical knowledge of modern software engineering and operational practices, including secure development, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, resilience and production support.
• Strong communication, technical judgement and stakeholder leadership, with the ability to simplify complex issues, challenge constructively and align business, architecture, engineering and delivery stakeholders around clear decisions.

We Want To Hire The Whole Version Of You.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

Find out more about working at Standard Life

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