Senior Dynamics Platform Engineer in London

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.

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.

Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior Dynamics Platform Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you’ll apply your software engineering expertise to build new features, resolve bugs, and tackle technical debt. You’ll also take a strategic view of our team’s processes and tooling, helping us continuously improve how we work and deliver high-quality, valuable software to our customers. As the technical lead for the platform, you’ll play a key role in shaping our engineering direction and championing innovative thinking across the team.

What you'll be doing:

• Building clean, maintainable features and resolving end-to-end issues using thoughtful approaches to ensure effective delivery of high-quality outcomes for our customers.
• Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, aligned with engineering best practices, and provide meaningful business value while adhering to quality standards.
• Contributing to the strategy for managing technical debt to maintain secure, resilient, and reliable systems across Legal & General.
• Defining and implementing test strategies that prioritize security, usability, and accessibility to enhance the overall customer experience.
• Conducting and participating in code reviews with a focus on functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, resiliency, maintainability, and security.
• Promoting a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging inspection and adaptation to enhance team effectiveness, productivity, and wellbeing.
• Fostering a collaborative and respectful team environment by mentoring and supporting less experienced engineers in their professional development.
• Researching emerging technologies and identifying opportunities to integrate them into our platforms, while sharing insights to inspire innovation across the team.

Who we're looking for:

• Demonstrated advanced proficiency in at least two of the following platforms is essential: Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Dynamics 365 Sales, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Logic Apps, Azure Data Factory.
• Proven ability to design and implement large-scale, well-optimized, and maintainable software features.
• Strong track record of analyzing, debugging, and resolving highly complex technical issues.
• Experience in conducting and contributing to effective code reviews, offering constructive and actionable feedback.
• Ability to evaluate all relevant factors and make informed decisions when determining technical approaches.
• A sound grasp of software testing principles and practices is essential.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern release strategies is required.
• Practical experience working within Agile frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban.

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.
• Generous pension contribution.
• 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 option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only).
• There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online.
• We’re creating net-zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in-person experience.

Additional Information

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.

Summary

• Type: Full-time
• Function: Finance
• Experience level: Not Applicable
• Industry: Financial Services