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Platform Specialist
Platform Specialist – Retail & Analytics Data Hub (RADH)
About Legal & General (L&G)
Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor, ensuring financial security since 1836. Our mission is to build a better society while delivering outstanding outcomes for our 12.8 million+ policyholders and workforce members.
Our Retail business supports customers throughout their saving, planning, protection, and retirement journeys. We combine technology with personalised service—whether engaging directly or partnering with intermediaries and employers—to help people achieve better long-term financial outcomes.
The Role
We are modernising our enterprise data platform to drive smarter, data-driven decision-making in our Retail business. Our Data Operations team owns the Retail & Analytics Data Hub (RADH), harnessing powerful data to empower analytics, reporting, and innovation.
As the Platform Specialist, you will:
- Lead the ongoing evolution of RADH as a strategic enterprise data platform.
- Innovate with Snowflake to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Serve as a Snowflake subject matter expert, shaping best practices company-wide.
- Strengthen automation through CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and orchestration frameworks.
- Embed observability (monitoring, alerting, lineage, data quality) across the platform.
- Work with Information Security to implement robust governance, security, and access controls.
- Collaborate with engineers, analysts, and product teams to foster platform adoption.
- Optimise costs while maintaining SLAs for availability, performance, and data quality.
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Who You Are
We’re looking for a platform engineer with deep expertise in cloud-native data landscapes, specifically in Snowflake and big-data architectures. Key traits include:
- Strong background in data platform, data engineering, or analytics engineering roles.
- Expert-level hands-on experience with Snowflake—core features, optimisation, and trends.
- Proficient with SQL and modern data engineering tools and patterns.
- Experience designing or scaling enterprise data platforms.
- Knowledge of data governance, security, access control, and compliance frameworks.
- Ability to simplify and communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Team-minded with a passion for mentoring, continuous improvement, and next-gen solutions.
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Why Join Us?
At Legal & General, we reward performance and commitment with an attractive package that cares for you, your family, and your future.
- Performance-related bonuses & share schemes
- Generous pension contribution
- Life assurance & employer-funded Healthcare Plan (EC-only eligible)
- 25+ days annual leave (26+ after 2 years), with flexibility to buy/sell excess leave
- Competitive parental and bereavement leave
- Electric car scheme (salary sacrifice option, EC eligible)
- Perks, including L&G product discounts and high-street retailer deals
- Modern, sustainable offices across the UK, all contributing to our net-zero carbon target by 2030
Our values-driven culture encourages diversity, flexibility, and growth. Whether through full-time roles, hybrid options, part-time, job shares, or term-time work, we explore every reasonable request.
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