Engineering Manager

Company Description

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.

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description

We're recruiting for an Engineering Manager with strong Azure Cloud knowledge to join our Infrastructure & Operations team in Group Tech, based out of either London or Hove.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about Azure Cloud technologies and modern engineering practices to lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented engineers. You'll lead by example, ensuring that best practice is implemented in your day to day work, as an exemplar to other engineers within the capability family.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading and mentoring a team of engineers across multiple product and service teams
• Collaborating with architecture and product colleagues to deliver scalable Azure solutions
• Driving continuous improvement in engineering practices, team culture and delivery processes
• Championing secure, resilient and high-performing infrastructure using modern DevOps tools
• Supporting automated testing and quality assurance alongside Test Engineers
• Using data and metrics to inform decisions and improve deployment and monitoring
• Coaching engineers to grow their skills and remove blockers to their success
• Ensuring governance and compliance standards are met across Azure platforms

Qualifications

Who we're looking for:

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Cloud infrastructure and services
• Proficiency in Terraform, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with Agile planning tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Understanding of ITIL processes and cloud networking principles
• A collaborative and inclusive leadership style with mentoring experience
• Ability to manage individuals across different scrum or technical teams
• High attention to detail and a commitment to documentation and quality
• A proactive approach to learning, development and continuous improvement

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

Additional Information

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.
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