Associate It Architect

Company Description
Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind-the-scenes. It's up to us in L&G Group functions - which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Comms to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we're helping to improve our customers' lives, and contributing to the success of the business every day.
Job Description
We have new and exciting opportunity for an Associate IT Architect who will be joining a highly technical and collaborative team. The role holder will support a wide range of architectural activities across the Group Architecture Practice. These include providing support to our Business Architecture, IT Architecture Delivery and Technology Governance capabilities, through activities like: running discovery workshops, synthesising design inputs, applying simple design patterns, assuring simpler designs and working with architecture tooling.
What you'll be doing

• Solution Design - Producing simple solution designs and adopt basic patterns independently or support complex designs working alongside experienced and specialist architects.
• Assure Solutions - Supporting assurance processes that ensure solutions meet our business needs and minimise risk. Being able to evaluate simple solutions against pre-defined assessment criteria.
• Accurate Documentation and Record Keeping - Producing architecture artefacts, e.g. high-level designs, key decision documents. Ensuring Enterprise Architecture tooling records are updated and accurate.
• Solutions Delivery - Collaborating with project teams and Subject Matter Experts (SME) to support delivery. E.g. assurance of lower-level designs.
• Provide Clarity on Architecture Processes and Services - Offering guidance to individuals or projects on what architecture is, how to access our services and when we should be engaged.
• Improving the Discipline - Supporting improvement initiatives that mature the architecture discipline, e.g. supporting tooling improvements, or optimising processes.
• Ensuring business and system changes follow best business practices and the correct change process and methodology, including the IT Change Management Standard.

Qualifications

• Appropriate qualifications in technical change or technology related subjects are desirable, but not essential. Alternatively, an academic background in technical subjects is desirable.
• An understanding of architecture and how it adds value
• Knowledge in technical subjects (e.g. data, systems, software, engineering) is a plus
• Understanding of technology trends
• A curiosity for architecture

Experience of the following:

• Communicating effectively with stakeholders, adapting style and content as necessary to land messages.
• Working in or with technical teams (e.g. engineering, software, security, change management)
• Building successful working relationships and team dynamics in a matrix environment
• Practical, common-sense delivery of successful, collaborative solutions
• Balancing day-to-day delivery with improving processes and work

Additional Information
The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.
Since 1836, we've grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands.
We're all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.
We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.
At L&G, you'll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we're supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.
Today, there's over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?
Great minds don't have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.
We don't just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.
We think it's important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.
We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we're always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we're committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.
So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.