Senior Solution Architect (Pensions) at LegalAndGeneral

We’re looking for a Senior Solution Architect to lead the solution architecture across our Pensions 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