About Legal & General
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, striving to build a better society, improve the lives of our customers, and create value for shareholders.
About Institutional Retirement
Our Institutional Retirement division looks after around 700,000 institutional customers, providing pension risk transfer (PRT) solutions for UK and US defined benefit schemes, and reinsurance from our global hub in Bermuda. Operating continuously in the UK market since 1987, we are the UK’s longest‑running insurer.
Role Overview
We’re looking for a visionary leader to shape the future of actuarial systems at Legal & General. As Head of System Development, you’ll drive the design and delivery of scalable, compliant, and cutting‑edge actuarial tools that support our pension risk transfer business, leading a talented team and collaborating across functions to deliver outstanding customer and business outcomes.
What you’ll be doing
* Defining and leading the actuarial development strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and technological advancements.
* Overseeing the design, build, and enhancement of actuarial models and systems, ensuring they are fit‑for‑purpose, scalable, and compliant with internal and external standards, including creating and maintaining actuarial development best practices.
* Partnering with product, IT, Client Servicing, Finance and Risk teams to ensure actuarial solutions are integrated effectively across the organisation and support cross‑functional initiatives.
* Leading and developing a high‑performing actuarial development team, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
* Establishing and maintaining governance frameworks for actuarial development, including model validation, documentation standards, and peer review processes.
* Reviewing the performance of products and the service provided to customers to ensure expected and acceptable standards are achieved.
* Ensuring any system or process changes that impact customer journeys have been reviewed by business stakeholders to determine the impact on the delivery of customer outcomes (Consumer Duty accountability).
* Taking the lead in all matters with regard to the management of employees, ensuring consistent application of Group policies and the Partnership Agreement to maximise business performance.
Qualifications
* Expert knowledge of Defined Benefit pensions.
* Expert knowledge in C#, Python or other relevant languages.
* Understanding of IT infrastructure systems and services in complex environments.
* Experience working in Agile delivery teams and using tools such as JIRA, Confluence or similar.
* Qualified Actuary (essential).
* Useful additional qualifications: Product Owner Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager experience.
Benefits
* 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), with options to buy or sell holiday.
* Competitive family leave.
* Electric car scheme with salary sacrifice for permanent employees.
* Various discounts on L&G products and high‑street stores.
* Well‑designed offices supporting collaboration and wellbeing.
Additional Information
We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are open to 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.
We value a welcoming, inclusive culture and look forward to you bringing diverse strengths and perspectives to our team. If you don’t meet every single criterion, think about the strengths and connections you can bring to our purpose.
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