Technical Project Lead

Location: Brighton and Hove, England, gb

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’re looking for an experienced Technical Project Lead to help deliver a significant five-year transformation within Group Protection.

The programme is replacing a complex legacy policy administration platform that has been developed and customised over many years. You’ll work closely with the Head of Transformation, taking ownership of day-to-day delivery across technology, business and supplier teams.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll need to understand what is happening beneath the headline status reports, use delivery tools to validate progress and turn complex information into clear actions and decisions for senior stakeholders

What you'll be doing:

• Leading day-to-day delivery across a complex legacy transformation programme
• Coordinating engineering, business, architecture and third-party supplier workstreams
• Validating progress, scope and delivery evidence directly through Jira and Confluence
• Managing plans, milestones, budgets, risks, issues and cross-programme dependencies
• Driving Agile planning, backlog management, prioritisation and release coordination
• Preparing clear executive presentations, governance updates and decision materials
• Facilitating governance forums and ensuring actions and decisions are followed through
• Building trusted relationships across business and technology teams to remove blockers

Who we're looking for:

• Experience leading large-scale technical transformation, modernisation or platform replacement programmes
• Evidence of delivering complex technology programmes of comparable scale, ideally £10 million-plus
• Strong hands-on capability with Jira and Confluence, including validating progress against scope
• Experience working across engineering teams, business stakeholders and external suppliers
• Practical knowledge of Agile, Scrum, SAFe or hybrid delivery environments
• Strong programme governance, risk, dependency and financial management capability
• Confidence producing and presenting concise material for senior and executive stakeholders
• An inclusive, pragmatic leadership style with the confidence to challenge constructively

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 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.