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Platform Specialist
Platform Specialist – Retail & Analytics Data Hub (RADH)
Legal & General (L&G)
Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor, safeguarding financial futures since 1836. As one of the world’s largest asset managers, we provide powerful asset origination capabilities and underpin retirement and protection solutions, including:
- Pension risk transfer (global)
- UK & US life insurance
- UK workplace pensions & retirement income
Our Retail business supports 12.8+ million policyholders and workplace members by helping them save, plan, protect, and enjoy retirement—through direct engagement, intermediaries, or employers. We deliver highly personalised, technology-driven solutions to shape better long-term outcomes.
About the Role
We are building a modern, enterprise-scale data platform to empower our Retail business with smarter, data-driven decisions. Our Data Operations team owns the Retail & Analytics Data Hub (RADH), a strategic data platform at the core of analytics and reporting.
As a Platform Specialist, you will be responsible for:
- Technical ownership & strategic evolution of RADH.
- Leading the Snowflake innovation initiative to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Shaping best practices for data platform operations.
- Optimising automation via CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and orchestration frameworks.
- Ensuring full observability (monitoring, alerting, lineage, and data quality).
- Implementing governance, security, and access controls with Information Security.
- Collaborating with engineers, analysts, and product teams to drive adoption.
- Cost optimisation without compromising SLA compliance (availability, performance, and data quality).
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Our typical employee benefits include:
- Annual performance-related bonus plan and share schemes
- Generous pension contribution
- Life assurance & healthcare plan (permanent employees only)
- +25 days holiday (+2 days after 2 years’ service, optionally tradable)
- Competitive family leave
- Electric car salary sacrifice scheme ( Tax-efficient)
- Discounts on L&G products and high-street retailers
- Net-zero carbon workplaces by 2030
Key Requirements
✔ 4+ years in data platforms, data engineering, or cloud environments (TEAM LEADING or ARCHITECTURAL ROLES preferred). ✔ Deep hands-on expertise in Snowflake, including:
- Clustering
- Zero-Copy Cloning
- Data Sharing
- Time-travel recovery
- Advanced optimisation techniques ✔ Strong command of SQL and modern tooling (dbt, Airflow, or similar). ✔ Experience designing enterprise-scale data platforms (10-20TB+ data inventories). ✔ Understanding of data governance, GRC, DKIM, security, and compliance. ✔ Ability to translate technical insights to both expert and non-expert stakeholders. ✔ A collaborative mindset with curiosity to drive continuous improvement.
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Company Culture
"We believe in generating returns today while building a better future." At L&G, you’ll join a welcoming, inclusive culture where diverse backgrounds and views fuel collaboration. Our leadership prioritises career growth and wellbeing.
Flexibility is a priority; we accommodate part-time, term-time, or job-sharing requests, unless constrained by business demands.
Why Apply? This is a rare opportunity to own and innovate a critical data platform for retirement and protection services, shaping workforces with purpose. If you love Snowflake, scalability, and systems engineering, this role could be yours.
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