How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Platform Specialist
Platform Specialist – Retail & Analytics Data Hub (RADH)
Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor, safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836. Our Retail business supports millions with lifelong financial solutions, rooted in data-driven innovation and personalised customer engagement.
We’re shaping the future of our Retail & Analytics Data Hub (RADH), a strategic enterprise-scale data platform, and we’re seeking a visionary Platform Specialist to own its technical direction. This role is ideal for someone passionate about modern platform engineering, Snowflake solutions, and data architecture at scale.
About the Role
You’ll lead the evolution of RADH—the heartbeat of data infrastructure supporting our 12.8 million+ customers—collaborating across engineering, analytics, compliance, and product teams to deliver scalable, high-quality data solutions.
Key facets of the role:
- Strategic data leadership: Architect and refine RADH as our go-to enterprise data platform.
- Snowflake specialisation: Champion performant, cost-efficient Snowflake constructs (query hones, micro-partitions, clustering, etc.).
- Best-practice drive: Steward Snowflake design patters, governance, and security standards across the organisation.
- Automation optimisation: Enhance CI/CD workflows, IaC (e.g. Terraform), and orchestration to promote repeatability.
- Platform observability: Ensure data pipelines, lineage, and lineage lineage quality thrive through proactive monitoring and alerts.
- Security & compliance alignment: Work closely with IΣ Information Security to reinforce access controls.
- Product-collaboration: Partner with engineering, analysts, and product teams to refine how RADH serves customer needs.
- Cost-performance balance: Iterate platform architecture to align with cost controls and SLA targets.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the Retail & Analytics Data Hub, driving efficiency and scalability.
- Champion Snowflake best practices for performance tuning, cloud efficiency, compliance, and innovation.
- Advise on cloud-native data architecture, tool interoperability, and pipeline orchestration.
- Advocate automation (GitOps, PowerShell, Python, etc.) and data governance across cross-functional teams.
- Collaborate with Information Security to embed secure and inclusive data practices.
- Shape platform monitoring, data quality, and observability, ensuring responsiveness and reliability.
- Advocate personalised data services, supporting broader business objectives for customer excellence.
- Continuously measure and refine ROI while meeting service-level objectives.
- Advise on emerging technologies and cost-optimisation strategies.
What You’ll Bring
- 10+ years’ data expertise: Experience in data platform engineering or similar, with Snowflake as a core focus.
- Market-leading technical skills:
- Hands-on experience with SQL development, Snowflake constructs, and cloud-based query optimisation.
- Proven ability to architect enterprise-scale data lakes, warehouses, and pipelines within Cloud environments.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools, Infrastructure-as-Code, and row-level controls.
- Hard failure intuition: Proven track record troubleshooting in low to high-priority environments.
- Governance & Policy Savvy: Experience with PII handling, compliance frameworks (GDPR, industry regulations), and data access governance.
- Collaborator & Storyteller: Ability to break down intricate technical concepts into digestible advice for non-data specialists.
- Guiding Voyages: Passion for knowledge-sharing and mentoring teams to adopt best practices.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Why Us & You
Beyond rigorous work, we prioritise your personal & career growth like this:
- Competitive Remuneration Package:
- Performance-related annual bonuses.
- Generous pension scheme match payments.
- Lifelong benefits: Life Assurance, Healthcare Plan.
- Exceptional Work-Life Balance:
- 25+ days holiday (26 days after 2 years).
- Flexible model: Part-time, term-time, and job-share consideration.
- Innovate in Sustainability:
- Commitment to Net-Zero Carbon workplaces by 2030, with modern inpatient hubs across the UK.
- Perks & Discounts:
- Discounts on our own financial products and high-street sponsorships.
- Electric Journey:
- Salary sacrifice electric car lease scheme (permanent employees).
- Empowered Space:
- Inclusive workplace culture where diversity fuels creativity and career development. We fair WELL (Workplace Equality, Inclusion & Leadership network).
Critical Note: At L&G, we value outcomes over attendance. If you’re passionate about shaping sustainable data futures and thrive at complexity’s intersection, apply without waiting for a perfect tick-box check. d্য networks exceed traditional criteria.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location