Infrastructure Architect - Networks

Company Description

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.

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

We are recruiting an Infrastructure Architect (Networks) to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Legal & General’s network landscape. This role is responsible for designing, developing, and guiding the evolution of our network infrastructure to ensure it remains robust, secure, and scalable.

Operating on a fractional basis across multiple product and service teams, the Infrastructure Architect will provide technical leadership, mentor fellow architects, and collaborate closely with Product Owners and engineers. With deep expertise in L&G’s infrastructure, policies, and standards, they will be empowered to drive informed, timely decisions removing blockers and accelerating delivery across the organisation.

A key part of this role is providing forward‑thinking recommendations that enhance resilience and performance, while contributing to the seamless implementation of network solutions in a dynamic, collaborative environment.

• Leading the design of network infrastructure across multiple teams to ensure alignment with L&G’s overarching technology architecture and strategy, enabling technology to fully support business objectives
• Designing and enabling mechanisms for rapid, delegated architectural decision‑making within product and service teams, ensuring that architecture does not hinder delivery for customers
• Developing and clearly communicating strategies, solution designs, key decisions and architectural approaches, while creating roadmaps, patterns and standards to ensure consistent adoption across all teams
• Acting as a trusted authority on L&G’s infrastructure policies, standards and frameworks, providing pragmatic and actionable guidance that empowers teams to deliver at pace
• Leading the evaluation and selection of new technologies and infrastructure options, using deep expertise in network and infrastructure domains to guide teams toward the most effective solutions
• Determining when architectural decisions require escalation to enterprise‑level governance forums, ensuring that only high‑impact matters are raised for organisation‑wide consideration
• Engaging stakeholders and conducting appropriate testing ahead of any system or business changes to ensure a full understanding of impacts on internal teams and customers, in line with Consumer Duty obligations

Who we’re looking for:

• Relevant professional certifications (e.g., CCIE, CISSP) are advantageous.
• Strong, in‑depth expertise across network and security technologies, including WAN, cloud environments (AWS and Azure), data centre networking, and office LAN and wireless solutions spanning multiple vendors.
• Solid understanding of complementary technologies such as DNS, Active Directory, Entra , and proxy services.
• Extensive experience designing modern network infrastructure solutions using both cloud-based and on‑premise technologies in a product‑oriented environment.
• Proven track record delivering large‑scale network migration and transformation programmes, including oversight and assurance of third‑party suppliers and the ability to communicate complex solutions effectively to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience working within Financial Services or other highly regulated environments.
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