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At LCP we love what we do, and it shows. We help our clients make good decisions based on insightful analysis, industry expertise, and game-changing technology. Working across a wide range of sectors, including pensions and benefits, investments, insurance, energy, health, sports, and data analytics, we help our clients navigate complexity in order to take the action that matters.

We are home to talented, well-recognised industry experts and believe that our biggest strength is our people. We place technology at the heart of what we do, by building our own industry leading tools that combine digital and industry expertise with absolute focus on the needs of our clients.

Under the leadership of our new CIO, we are embarking on a new phase of transformation to strengthen our digital capability and to help drive continued growth. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a respected organisation to help build our future success.

What will you be doing?

Developing, supporting and continuously improving secure, performant and reusable platform-layer components, that our Product team developers can efficiently self-serve, using automated, industry-standard and best practice cloud-based tools and techniques, within a Microsoft environment.

• Under the guidance of the Head of Platforms
  • Develop, support and continuously improve reusable platform-layer components that support and enable developers throughout the firm’s product teams
  • Implement and support automated CICD pipelines to enable developers to test and promote code into production with appropriate controls and maximum velocity
  • Reduce or eliminate manual or repetitive tasks, improving end-to-end platform health and performance and general developer productivity
  • Engage and collaborate with product teams as needed, to support and enable product development across the firm
  • Work within product teams as needed, supporting their specific needs and taking direction from product leads
  • Approach all work mindful of maintaining a common, consistent, and flexible platform that continuously delivers the tools, interfaces and components required to drive product development
  • Implement policies to manage platform components securely, in conjunction with the infrastructure team
• Maintain and develop awareness of
  • Product team strategies and roadmaps, to anticipate their needs and proactively support them
  • LCP’s overall solutions architecture, ensuring that Platform components continue to promote automation, reuse, and consistency across the technology estate
  • Modern DevOps practices, tools, techniques and industry practices
• Coordinate with third party vendors
  • Where required to ensure the ongoing health and availability of platform components or outsourced functions
  • As needed in respect of periodic penetration testing and vulnerability assessments, facilitating the resolution of findings as appropriate under the guidance of the Head of Platforms
• Own incidents and problems impacting platform components and code
  • Until a new owner is required, or the issue has been mitigated or resolved
  • Conducting root cause analysis to identify and resolve underlying issues
  • Collaborating as needed, within and beyond the team

What skills and experience are were looking for?

• 
  Strong experience within a DevOps organisation – delivering DevOps tool chains and automation are essential
• Strong and demonstrable experience and technical engineering knowledge of
  • Platform and web-based/cloud products (Microsoft Azure hosted services and Azure DevOps are essential), emerging standards and trends
  • Developing a CICD pipeline and related technologies
  • Software development and release engineering skills - able to clearly articulate related concepts
• Proven experience of
  • API platform development
  • Integrating/interacting with the Microsoft Dynamics 365 ecosystem
• Deep knowledge and first-hand experience with
  • Modern development tool chains, bug tracking systems, continuous integration and version control systems
  • Software and systems – able to dive into details with engineers and distil salient information into key points for technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong planning and organisational skills, including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously, while balancing business priorities and quality
• Excellent communication skills with a capacity to present, discuss and explain issues coherently and logically, both in writing and orally
• Ability to balance conflicting and changing demands through prioritisation and a pragmatic approach

What's in it for you?

As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

For you: hybrid working (varies by role and department), professional study support (where applicable), access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks

For your family: Life assurance, income protection, enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave

For your health: 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!), options to buy & sell holiday, discounted gym memberships, private medical, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits, eye care vouchers, cycle to work scheme, digital GP services

For your wealth: competitive pension scheme, discretionary bonus scheme, high street discounts, season ticket loans

For others: volunteering opportunities

And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation. If you would like to talk to someone about any adjustments you may need to assist with your application process, please contact Karina Lee or Sophie Jones (In-House Recruiters) by emailing [email protected] to arrange a confidential conversation.