Azure Solution Architect 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 are seeking an Azure Solutions Architect to join Legal & General Retail and play a key role in shaping and delivering enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure and platform solutions across both Azure and AWS. This is a highly impactful opportunity to support the organisation’s transformation journey, enabling strategic outcomes across all Retail product lines and domains. The role is accountable for the end-to-end design of cloud infrastructure and associated services, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, compliant, and cost effective.

The successful candidate will define and articulate a clear target state cloud architecture, providing direction and guidance to delivery teams across a diverse technology landscape to ensure successful execution. Working in close partnership with engineers, architects, security, risk and compliance teams, as well as senior business and IT stakeholders, the role requires excellent communication skills, strong structured decision making, and a proactive approach to identifying and resolving challenges.

What you'll be doing:

• Producing end to end Azure infrastructure solution designs, ensuring alignment to both functional and non-functional requirements including security, resilience, performance, compliance, and cost.
• Collaborating with engineering and delivery teams to align component level designs with the broader architecture and ensure adherence to enterprise principles and target state.
• Communicating architecture decisions, rationale, and trade offs to stakeholders and governance forums, supporting informed decision making and consistency across the portfolio.
• Partnering with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Technology Leads to translate business outcomes into robust and scalable infrastructure requirements.
• Facilitating and participating in design reviews to ensure alignment to target state and supporting the definition of comprehensive testing and assurance strategies.
• Supporting estimation and planning activities by working closely with engineering teams to validate and refine delivery plans and infrastructure requirements.
• Coordinating deployment activities across Azure and integrated platforms, ensuring safe change practices, automation, and repeatable deployment models.
• Driving shared accountability for successful technology delivery by working in close partnership with project and programme leadership teams.

Who we're looking for:

• Holding a relevant degree or equivalent experience, with TOGAF or similar architecture certification desirable and strong preference for Azure certifications such as AZ‑305 or AZ‑104; security certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, or SC‑100 advantageous.
• Demonstrating deep experience in delivering end to end solution architecture within complex enterprise environments, supported by clear and structured high level design documentation.
• Exhibiting strong knowledge of integrating legacy, COTS, SaaS, and custom applications, underpinned by robust cloud and infrastructure connectivity patterns.
• Bringing hands-on expertise across Azure core architecture, including subscriptions, management groups, policy, RBAC, and resource organisation, alongside serverless, PaaS, container, and managed service capabilities.
• Possessing advanced understanding of cloud networking, identity, and security, including VNets, Private Link, ExpressRoute, Entra ID, conditional access, and enterprise security controls such as Key Vault and Defender for Cloud.
• Demonstrating capability in building resilient, observable, and scalable platforms, with experience in AKS, application services, monitoring, disaster recovery, and Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform or Bicep.
• Proven track record of delivering large scale, multi-year technology initiatives, working within agile environments, and integrating third party services in regulated or risk aware industries.
• Exhibiting strong professional attributes, including clear communication and visual storytelling, effective stakeholder facilitation, attention to detail, and a proactive, collaborative approach to problem solving and continuous improvement.

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, 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.