Platform Specialist

• Permanent/Regular or Fixed Term Contract/Temporary:
  Permanent (UK and ROW) / Regular (US)
• L&G Business Unit:
  Legal & General Retail
• L&G sub Business Unit: RETAIL - CENTRAL
• Primary
  
  Location:
  
  Cardiff, Four Central Square
• Job Family: IT & Change

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.

Who we are

Our Retail business supports customers throughout their lives, to help them save, plan, protect and enjoy retirement.

We’re a leading provider of retirement and protection solutions. We aim to support our c.12.8 million policyholders and workplace members throughout their lifelong financial journeys.

We focus on helping the customers of today and tomorrow achieve better long-term outcomes. We either talk with them directly or work with intermediaries and employers to meet their needs. We use the latest technology to connect with them quickly, efficiently and wherever possible in highly personalised ways.

We’re building a modern, enterprise‑scale data platform that helps our Retail business make smarter, data‑driven decisions every day. Our Data Operations team enables this by designing, running and continuously improving the Retail & Analytics Data Hub (RADH), a strategic data platform at the heart of analytics and reporting.

We’re looking for a Platform Specialist to take technical ownership of RADH and help shape its future. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of platform engineering, data architecture and Snowflake innovation, and who wants to influence how data platforms evolve at scale.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading the ongoing development of the Retail & Analytics Data Hub as a strategic enterprise data platform
• Introducing and optimising Snowflake capabilities to improve performance, scalability and reliability
• Acting as a Snowflake subject matter expert, shaping best practice across the organisation
• Improving automation through CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and orchestration frameworks
• Embedding observability across the platform, including monitoring, alerting, lineage and data quality
• Implementing and influencing robust governance, security and access controls in partnership with Information Security
• Collaborating with engineers, analysts and product teams to support platform adoption and delivery
• Optimising platform costs while maintaining agreed service levels for availability, performance and data quality

Who we’re looking for:

• Strong experience in data platform or data engineering roles within cloud environments
• Deep hands‑on knowledge of Snowflake and its core features and capabilities
• Confidence working with SQL and modern data engineering tooling and patterns
• Experience designing or supporting enterprise‑scale data platforms and architectures
• Understanding of data governance, security, access management and compliance
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics to both technical and non‑technical audiences
• A collaborative mindset with a desire to support and enable others
• Curiosity, adaptability and an interest in continuous improvement and emerging technologies

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
• 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…