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Platform Specialist
Platform Specialist – Retail & Analytics Data Hub (RADH) – Snowflake Expertise
About Legal & General
Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor, founded in 1836. We are committed to safeguarding people’s financial futures while building a better society through improved customer outcomes and value creation for shareholders.
As one of the world’s largest asset managers, we provide:
- Retirement and protection solutions
- UK and US life insurance
- UK workplace pensions and retirement income
- International expertise in pension risk transfer
Retail Business Overview
Our Retail business supports customers across their lifetimes, helping them:
- Save and plan
- Protect their finances
- Enjoy a secure retirement
We serve:
- ~12.8 million policyholders and workplace members
- Through direct customer engagement and partnerships with intermediaries/employers
Our approach:
- Personalised data-driven insights using the latest technology
- Long-term focus: empowering customers today and for the future
Job Description
The Opportunity
We are reshaping our modern, enterprise-scale data platform to drive smarter, data-driven decisions across our Retail business. Our Data Operations team builds and optimises the Retail & Analytics Data Hub (RADH), serving as the strategic core of analytics and reporting.
We seek a Platform Specialist to:
- **Take technical ownership of RADH
- Shape the future of our data platform
- Work at the intersection of platform engineering, data architecture, and Snowflake innovation
This role is ideal for someone with a passion for immersive technical excellence, collaborations, and influencing large-scale data platform evolution.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and continuous improvement of the Retail & Analytics Data Hub (RADH) as our enterprise data platform
- Introduce and optimise Snowflake capabilities to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability
- Serve as a Snowflake subject matter expert (SME), driving best practices across the organisation
- Improve automation through:
- CI/CD pipelines
- Infrastructure as code approaches
- Orchestration frameworks
- Embed observability in the platform via:
- Monitoring and responsive alerting
- Effective data lineage tools
- Data quality assurance
- Collaborate with Information Security to solidify:
- Governance frameworks
- Security mechanisms
- Access control policies
- Partner with engineers, analysts, and product teams to ensure smooth platform adoption and delivery
- Optimise platform costs while adhering to agreed-upon standards for:
- Availability, performance, and data quality
- Advocate for innovation and embrace learning emerging technologies
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Requirements & Skills
Essential Criteria
- Proven experience in:
- data platform design or data engineering within cloud environments (e.g., Snowflake, GCP, AWS)
- Supporting enterprise-scale data platforms and architecture development
- Data governance, security, access management, and compliance frameworks
- Deep technical expertise in Snowflake, including:
- Core features and methodologies
- Query optimization
- Stack integration patterns (with tools like AWS/GCP, ETL, orchestration)
- Proficient SQL skills to design, query, and optimise complex datasets
- Experience debugging scale issues for:
- Performance and load
- Operational efficiency
- Best practices in production
Preferred Qualifications
- Collaborative mindset with a track record of:
- Supporting colleagues
- Enabling innovation
- Translating technical details for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Familiarity with tools and frameworks for unified data intelligence (e.g., change data capture, ML ops)
- Interest in emerging data paradigms, such as:
- Real-time analytics
- Observability and transparent architecture
- AI-driven insights
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What We Offer
We recognise the core aspects of employee well-being and professional growth as central to creating outstanding work culture. Key benefits include:
- Performance-driven compensation:
- Annual bonus plan
- Share schemes for long-term value
- Financial security:
- Generous pension contributions
- Life assurance provisions
- Group healthcare coverage (permanent employees only)
- Work-Life Balance:
- At least 25 days holiday (commissioning to 26 days after two years)
- Flexibility to buy/sell additional leave
- Competitive parental leave options
- Green Mobility Initiatives:
- Access to tax-efficient electric car schemes (permanent employees only)
- Shopping Perks:
- Discounts on our own suite of financial products
- Partnership collaborations for in-store and online discounts
- Sustainability Commitment:
- Pursue net-zero carbon across all workplaces by 2030 through modernised, green offices
Our Values and Environment
At L&G, we believe in positive impact every day—financially, socially, and ethically. Your contributions will align with:
- A values-driven culture rooted in diversity, inclusion, and integrity
- Career development opportunities through mentorship, growth pathways, and niche expertise
- A flexibility-first mindset:
- Support with part-time arrangements
- Term-time flexibility for eligible roles
- Enforced role flexibility where possible
We don’t expect you to meet all requirements: highlight where you excel or show promise and how you can bridge any gaps.
Location: Cardiff, Four Central Square Employment Type: Permanent or Fixed Term (as applicable; UK, US/ROW roles available) Business Unit Affiliation: Legal & General Retail (RET-C)
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