Senior Solution Architect - Workplace Savings Tech Leader

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 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 looking for a Senior Solution Architect to lead the solution architecture across our Workplace Savings domain within Retail Technology. You will provide strategic architectural direction across multiple customer channels, schemes, and employer propositions, ensuring alignment with Retail and Group technology strategies. In this role, you will maintain an accurate enterprise architecture landscape, shaping both current and target‑state capabilities, platforms, and integrations. You’ll define and communicate a clear, outcome‑focused technology vision that supports growth, operational efficiency, resilience, and regulatory requirements.

You will work closely with Agile, product‑centric, and transformation teams to ensure consistent delivery of the architectural roadmap while enabling appropriate local optimisation. A key part of the role is strengthening architectural capability across our digital and engineering teams, enhancing the overall maturity and impact of the architecture practice.

What you’ll be doing:

• Defining and maintaining the end‑to‑end Workplace Savings technology strategy and implementation roadmap in partnership with business, product, and technology leaders, ensuring alignment with Retail and Group priorities.
• Providing architectural leadership across multiple value streams and delivery teams, ensuring architectural intent is clearly understood, consistently applied, and effectively managed across platforms, channels, and suppliers.
• Owning and evolving the Workplace Savings technology estate—including member and employer channels, core administration platforms, data, integrations, and operational tooling—to ensure secure, scalable, resilient, and coherent solutions.
• Introducing innovative technologies that significantly enhance member and employer experiences while improving operational efficiency, time‑to‑market, and service quality across digital, contact centre, and operational channels.
• Designing solutions that meet changing pensions, savings, and Consumer Duty requirements, embedding resilience, security, auditability, and data protection into architectures by default.
• Representing Workplace Savings Architecture across Retail and Group, contributing to wider architectural standards and helping attract, develop, and inspire high‑quality engineering and architecture talent.
• Ensuring architectures uphold Treating Customers Fairly principles by enabling consistent, transparent, and accessible experiences across schemes, brands, and customer channels.
• Influencing strategic decisions by shaping solution designs, guiding architectural governance, resolving cross‑domain challenges, and providing clear options, risks, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

Who we’re looking for:

• Degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technology strategies and architectural principles.
• Broad understanding of modern technologies used in digital customer experiences, data insights, and customer‑servicing optimisation.
• Solid awareness of capital markets; experience within asset management is advantageous but not essential.
• Familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or similar iterative delivery methodologies, and an understanding of the architectural expectations within these environments.
• Knowledge of API‑led architecture and the technologies that underpin the API economy.
• Awareness of technology‑driven disruption across industries and the ability to interpret its potential impact on financial services.
• Proven experience designing and guiding the implementation of scalable, modern technology solutions within Agile delivery environments, with the ability to build strong, collaborative relationships with business stakeholders.

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 the 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, term-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.