Functional Consultant jobs in United Kingdom

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

L&G Retail 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’re looking for aSenior Dynamics Platform Engineerto join our engineering team. In this role, you’ll apply your software engineering expertise to build new features, resolve bugs, and tackle technical debt. You’ll also take a strategic view of our team’s processes and tooling—helping us continuously improve how we work and deliver high-quality, valuable software to our customers.

As thetechnical lead for the platform, you’ll play a key role in shaping our engineering direction and championing innovative thinking across the team.

What you'll be doing:

• Building clean, maintainable features and resolving end-to-end issues using thoughtful approaches to ensure effective delivery of high-quality outcomes for our customers
• Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, aligned with engineering best practices, and provide meaningful business value while adhering to quality standards
• Contributing to the strategy for managing technical debt to maintain secure, resilient, and reliable systems across Legal & General
• Defining and implementing test strategies that prioritize security, usability, and accessibility to enhance the overall customer experience
• Conducting and participating in code reviews with a focus on functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, resiliency, maintainability, and security
• Promoting a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging inspection and adaptation to enhance team effectiveness, productivity, and wellbeing
• Fostering a collaborative and respectful team environment by mentoring and supporting less experienced engineers in their professional development
• Researching emerging technologies and identifying opportunities to integrate them into our platforms, while sharing insights to inspire innovation across the team

Who we're looking for:

• Demonstrated advanced proficiency in at least two of the following platforms is essential:
• Dynamics 365 Customer Service
• Dynamics 365 Sales
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
• Logic Apps
• Azure Data Factory

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
• Healthcare Plan (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 (permanent employees only)
• 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

At L&G, we believe it\'s possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive 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 care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares.Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.