Job Specifications
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.
Who we are
Our Retail business supports customers throughout their lives, to help them save, plan, protect and enjoy retirement.
We’re a leading provider of retirement and protection solutions. We aim to support our c.12.8 million policyholders and workplace members throughout their lifelong financial journeys.
We focus on helping the customers of today and tomorrow achieve better long-term outcomes. We either talk with them directly or work with intermediaries and employers to meet their needs. We use the latest technology to connect with them quickly, efficiently and wherever possible in highly personalised ways.
Job Description
We’re looking for a Senior Solution Architect to lead the solution architecture across our Workplace Savings domain within Retail Technology. You will provide strategic architectural direction across multiple customer channels, schemes, and employer propositions, ensuring alignment with Retail and Group technology strategies.
In this role, you will maintain an accurate enterprise architecture landscape, shaping both current and target‑state capabilities, platforms, and integrations. You’ll define and communicate a clear, outcome‑focused technology vision that supports growth, operational efficiency, resilience, and regulatory requirements.
You will work closely with Agile, product‑centric, and transformation teams to ensure consistent delivery of the architectural roadmap while enabling appropriate local optimisation. A key part of the role is strengthening architectural capability across our digital and engineering teams, enhancing the overall maturity and impact of the architecture practice.
What you'll be doing:
Defining and maintaining the end‑to‑end Workplace Savings technology strategy and implementation roadmap in partnership with business, product, and technology leaders, ensuring alignment with Retail and Group priorities
Providing architectural leadership across multiple value streams and delivery teams, ensuring architectural intent is clearly understood, consistently applied, and effectively managed across platforms, channels, and suppliers
Owning and evolving the Workplace Savings technology estate—including member and employer channels, core administration platforms, data, integrations, and operational tooling—to ensure secure, scalable, resilient, and coherent solutions
Introducing innovative technologies that significantly enhance member and employer experiences while improving operational efficiency, time‑to‑market, and service quality across digital, contact centre, and operational channels
Designing solutions that meet changing pensions, savings, and Consumer Duty requirements, embedding resilience, security, auditability, and data protection into architectures by default
Representing Workplace Savings Architecture across Retail and Group, contributing to wider architectural standards and helping attract, develop, and inspire high‑quality engineering and architecture talent
Ensuring architectures uphold Treating Customers Fairly principles by enabling consistent, transparent, and accessible experiences across schemes, brands, and customer channels
Influencing strategic decisions by shaping solution designs, guiding architectural governance, resolving cross‑domain challenges, and providing clear options, risks, and recommendations to senior stakeholders
Qualifications
Who we're looking for:
Degree or equivalent professional experience
Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technology strategies and architectural principles
Broad understanding of modern technologies used in digital customer experiences, data insights, and customer‑servicing optimisation
Solid awareness of capital markets; experience within asset management is advantageous but not essential
Familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or similar iterative delivery methodologies, and an understanding of the architectural expectations within these environments
Knowledge of API‑led architecture and the technologies that underpin the API economy
Awareness of technology‑driven disruption across industries and the ability to interpret its potential impact on financial services
Proven experience designing and guiding the implementation of scalable, modern technology solutions within Agile delivery environments, with the ability to build strong, collaborative relationships with