Take the next step on your BPA career ladder in a data and technology-driven role within a major insurance group Are you a talented, technically-minded analyst with a passion for data and large datasets, looking for your next career challenge within the BPA space of a major insurance group? Star Actuarial, on behalf of a leading-edge client, is currently representing an exciting vacancy for a Senior Data and Technical Analyst who will support the implementation of system automation for the Bulk Purchase Annuity (BPA) business, covering activities from buy-in to buy-out. Helping to drive the development of the firm's digital footprint, you will maintain and improve data and configuration models and processes. You will also carry out data onboarding routines onto (and configure benefit calculations within) the BPA Administration Platform. With a good understanding of defined benefit pensions calculations and current legislation, the successful candidates will possess experience with implementing complex spreadsheet-based calculations. You will also have the ability to manage, query, and manipulate large data sets, coupled with an understanding of the testing lifecycle, comfortable leading the testing of automation. Responsibilities Support the implementation of system automation for the Bulk Purchase Annuity (BPA) business, covering activities from buy-in to buy-out. Maintain and improve data and configuration models and processes. Carry out data onboarding routines onto the BPA Administration Platform. Lead and manage the testing of automation. Manage, query, and manipulate large data sets. Qualifications Good understanding of defined benefit pensions calculations and current legislation. Experience implementing complex spreadsheet-based calculations. Ability to manage, query, and manipulate large data sets. Understanding of the testing lifecycle and comfortable leading testing. Technically-minded analyst with a passion for data.
30/05/2026
Full time
Take the next step on your BPA career ladder in a data and technology-driven role within a major insurance group Are you a talented, technically-minded analyst with a passion for data and large datasets, looking for your next career challenge within the BPA space of a major insurance group? Star Actuarial, on behalf of a leading-edge client, is currently representing an exciting vacancy for a Senior Data and Technical Analyst who will support the implementation of system automation for the Bulk Purchase Annuity (BPA) business, covering activities from buy-in to buy-out. Helping to drive the development of the firm's digital footprint, you will maintain and improve data and configuration models and processes. You will also carry out data onboarding routines onto (and configure benefit calculations within) the BPA Administration Platform. With a good understanding of defined benefit pensions calculations and current legislation, the successful candidates will possess experience with implementing complex spreadsheet-based calculations. You will also have the ability to manage, query, and manipulate large data sets, coupled with an understanding of the testing lifecycle, comfortable leading the testing of automation. Responsibilities Support the implementation of system automation for the Bulk Purchase Annuity (BPA) business, covering activities from buy-in to buy-out. Maintain and improve data and configuration models and processes. Carry out data onboarding routines onto the BPA Administration Platform. Lead and manage the testing of automation. Manage, query, and manipulate large data sets. Qualifications Good understanding of defined benefit pensions calculations and current legislation. Experience implementing complex spreadsheet-based calculations. Ability to manage, query, and manipulate large data sets. Understanding of the testing lifecycle and comfortable leading testing. Technically-minded analyst with a passion for data.
Role Summary The Senior Pension Administrator role will be responsible for the implementation of training and development for Pension Administrators and authorising/quality marking work completed by the Pension Administration team. The role is collaborative and requires liaising with a fellow Senior Pension Administrator, Pension Technical Analyst and Team Manager to ensure all authorisations, support and guidance are completed correctly and in a timely manner, aiming towards continuous improvement of customer service. Core Duties / Responsibilities Provide administration services to customers, working to agreed targets Complete / check casework and provide feedback Resolve customer enquiries (oral and written) Draft non standard correspondence in response to customer enquiries Perform and issue pension calculations including manual calculations Carry out projects and ad hoc activities, as determined by the Team Leader Skills, Capabilities & Attributes Excellent attention to detail and ability to follow defined processes and procedures Strong communication and customer service skills Desire to deliver exceptional customer service Strong numerical and literacy skills Computer literate with a willingness to learn a variety of systems Ability to develop positive and productive working relationships What We Offer Equiniti Pension Plan - match up to 10% of contributions (save for your future) Health and Wellbeing - Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support Life assurance cover at 4x salary with option to purchase enhanced cover Employee discounts via EQ Wins Platform Flexible Benefits via flex plan (gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading, etc.) Time off - 29 days holiday + bank holidays, 2 volunteer days Winning together - Equiniti ICON award vouchers recognising individuals who go above and beyond Learning & Development - investment in LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues Equal Opportunities We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and encourage applications from individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre employment screening checks.
30/05/2026
Full time
Role Summary The Senior Pension Administrator role will be responsible for the implementation of training and development for Pension Administrators and authorising/quality marking work completed by the Pension Administration team. The role is collaborative and requires liaising with a fellow Senior Pension Administrator, Pension Technical Analyst and Team Manager to ensure all authorisations, support and guidance are completed correctly and in a timely manner, aiming towards continuous improvement of customer service. Core Duties / Responsibilities Provide administration services to customers, working to agreed targets Complete / check casework and provide feedback Resolve customer enquiries (oral and written) Draft non standard correspondence in response to customer enquiries Perform and issue pension calculations including manual calculations Carry out projects and ad hoc activities, as determined by the Team Leader Skills, Capabilities & Attributes Excellent attention to detail and ability to follow defined processes and procedures Strong communication and customer service skills Desire to deliver exceptional customer service Strong numerical and literacy skills Computer literate with a willingness to learn a variety of systems Ability to develop positive and productive working relationships What We Offer Equiniti Pension Plan - match up to 10% of contributions (save for your future) Health and Wellbeing - Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support Life assurance cover at 4x salary with option to purchase enhanced cover Employee discounts via EQ Wins Platform Flexible Benefits via flex plan (gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading, etc.) Time off - 29 days holiday + bank holidays, 2 volunteer days Winning together - Equiniti ICON award vouchers recognising individuals who go above and beyond Learning & Development - investment in LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues Equal Opportunities We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and encourage applications from individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre employment screening checks.
Together,we'reworking to welcome millions more passengers,while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.At Heathrow, youcan be part ofthis -providingsolutions that make every journey better for millions each year.That means ensuring we meet the changing needs ofthe passengers, colleagues and partnerswho use our airportto work, travel, trade,shop, eat,exploreand connect.Our Solutionsteamcoversproject management,process improvement,business change,technology, cyberdefence,masterplanning, infrastructureand procurement. Itbrings togetherpeople with the skillsto deliverprestigious andoften large-scale projects,fromtransforming terminalstomakingbig reductions inour carbon emissions. Every day will test your skills and give you the opportunity to make your mark.You might be working with the technology and datathatpowerourcity within a city,drivingvitalcommercial agreements with everyone from retailers to airlines,or improving theunique infrastructurethat includeseverything from 200 buildings to250 HV substations.It'sa collaborative environment, where you can rely on the support of the expertsaround youas you take onprojectsyou'llbothtake pride in and feel passionate about. Job Info Job Identification 4327 Job Category Information Technology Posting Date 04/20/2026, 02:09 PM Apply Before 05/04/2026, 02:08 PM Job Schedule Full time Locations Heathrow Airport Limited, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW6 2GW, GB (Hybrid) Contract Type Permanent Working Pattern Monday-Friday Business hours Job Description The Cyber Security Analyst specialising in Cloud Security will be responsible for safeguarding our cloud infrastructure, applications and services. They will work as part of the Cyber Security Solutions Team ensuring security is integrated into the design, deployment, and operations of cloud-based systems. This role will involve identifying and mitigating cloud-related security risks, ensuring compliance with industry standards, and driving continuous improvement in cloud security practices. They will help to ensure that the organisation's cloud environments are designed, managed, and configured according to the highest Cyber Security principles and that Cloud environments are configured to comply with industry good practice, standards and regulatory requirements. The individual will work closely with cloud specialists across the organisation to provide technical expertise, validate cloud security configurations, and support the overall Cyber Security posture. Your role will involve Cloud Security Strategy and Design: Help develop and implement cloud security frameworks, ensuring that security best practices are integrated into all aspects of cloud infrastructure and services. Cloud Security Operations: Ensure appropriate monitoring, detection, and response to security threats and vulnerabilities within cloud environments is embedded from the outset. Conduct risk assessments and security audits to identify areas of improvement and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Incident Response & Forensics: Support incident response efforts in cloud environments, including identifying and investigating security incidents and breaches. Provide technical input and support to root cause analysis and recommend corrective actions. Automation & Optimisation: Automate security controls, monitoring, and response processes to improve operational efficiency and reduce risk in cloud environments. Collaboration & Communication: Work closely with development teams, DevOps, and other stakeholders to implement security controls in cloud infrastructure. Provide clear and concise communication to both technical and non-technical stakeholders regarding security risks, incidents, and resolutions. Compliance & Governance: Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and industry standards within cloud environments. Assist with audits and ensure security governance is in place. Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with emerging cloud security trends and vulnerabilities. Continuously evaluate and enhance security practices to keep up with evolving cloud technologies and threats. These skills are essential Strong experience of hands on technical experience in Cloud security engineering, with a proven track record of securing cloud environments. Solid experience with cloud architecture, security protocols, and secure cloud configurations. Proven track record of providing Cyber Security guidance on cloud application design, implementation, and ongoing management. Experience in ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations related to cloud security (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR). Experience working with cross functional teams and collaborating with development engineers, Cyber Security specialists, and other internal stakeholders to ensure cloud security. Deep knowledge of cloud platforms and services (Azure, Google Cloud). Experience of security Cloud platforms including Salesforce. Expertise in cloud security tools and technologies (e.g., Shield, Azure Security, SCCP, Wiz, Guard). Strong understanding of web application and cloud firewalls, encryption, identity and API security. Experience with automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) for securing cloud infrastructure. Ideally, you'll have: Experience with network security in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure) and hybrid network configurations. Experience with DevSecOps practices, secure coding, and cloud native application security. Familiarity with containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and their security implications. Our rewards We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance based annual bonuses and our longer term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we'll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we'll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you'll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions. Working Location Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow . Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. You'll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger - not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With five diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.
29/05/2026
Full time
Together,we'reworking to welcome millions more passengers,while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.At Heathrow, youcan be part ofthis -providingsolutions that make every journey better for millions each year.That means ensuring we meet the changing needs ofthe passengers, colleagues and partnerswho use our airportto work, travel, trade,shop, eat,exploreand connect.Our Solutionsteamcoversproject management,process improvement,business change,technology, cyberdefence,masterplanning, infrastructureand procurement. Itbrings togetherpeople with the skillsto deliverprestigious andoften large-scale projects,fromtransforming terminalstomakingbig reductions inour carbon emissions. Every day will test your skills and give you the opportunity to make your mark.You might be working with the technology and datathatpowerourcity within a city,drivingvitalcommercial agreements with everyone from retailers to airlines,or improving theunique infrastructurethat includeseverything from 200 buildings to250 HV substations.It'sa collaborative environment, where you can rely on the support of the expertsaround youas you take onprojectsyou'llbothtake pride in and feel passionate about. Job Info Job Identification 4327 Job Category Information Technology Posting Date 04/20/2026, 02:09 PM Apply Before 05/04/2026, 02:08 PM Job Schedule Full time Locations Heathrow Airport Limited, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW6 2GW, GB (Hybrid) Contract Type Permanent Working Pattern Monday-Friday Business hours Job Description The Cyber Security Analyst specialising in Cloud Security will be responsible for safeguarding our cloud infrastructure, applications and services. They will work as part of the Cyber Security Solutions Team ensuring security is integrated into the design, deployment, and operations of cloud-based systems. This role will involve identifying and mitigating cloud-related security risks, ensuring compliance with industry standards, and driving continuous improvement in cloud security practices. They will help to ensure that the organisation's cloud environments are designed, managed, and configured according to the highest Cyber Security principles and that Cloud environments are configured to comply with industry good practice, standards and regulatory requirements. The individual will work closely with cloud specialists across the organisation to provide technical expertise, validate cloud security configurations, and support the overall Cyber Security posture. Your role will involve Cloud Security Strategy and Design: Help develop and implement cloud security frameworks, ensuring that security best practices are integrated into all aspects of cloud infrastructure and services. Cloud Security Operations: Ensure appropriate monitoring, detection, and response to security threats and vulnerabilities within cloud environments is embedded from the outset. Conduct risk assessments and security audits to identify areas of improvement and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Incident Response & Forensics: Support incident response efforts in cloud environments, including identifying and investigating security incidents and breaches. Provide technical input and support to root cause analysis and recommend corrective actions. Automation & Optimisation: Automate security controls, monitoring, and response processes to improve operational efficiency and reduce risk in cloud environments. Collaboration & Communication: Work closely with development teams, DevOps, and other stakeholders to implement security controls in cloud infrastructure. Provide clear and concise communication to both technical and non-technical stakeholders regarding security risks, incidents, and resolutions. Compliance & Governance: Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and industry standards within cloud environments. Assist with audits and ensure security governance is in place. Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with emerging cloud security trends and vulnerabilities. Continuously evaluate and enhance security practices to keep up with evolving cloud technologies and threats. These skills are essential Strong experience of hands on technical experience in Cloud security engineering, with a proven track record of securing cloud environments. Solid experience with cloud architecture, security protocols, and secure cloud configurations. Proven track record of providing Cyber Security guidance on cloud application design, implementation, and ongoing management. Experience in ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations related to cloud security (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR). Experience working with cross functional teams and collaborating with development engineers, Cyber Security specialists, and other internal stakeholders to ensure cloud security. Deep knowledge of cloud platforms and services (Azure, Google Cloud). Experience of security Cloud platforms including Salesforce. Expertise in cloud security tools and technologies (e.g., Shield, Azure Security, SCCP, Wiz, Guard). Strong understanding of web application and cloud firewalls, encryption, identity and API security. Experience with automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) for securing cloud infrastructure. Ideally, you'll have: Experience with network security in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure) and hybrid network configurations. Experience with DevSecOps practices, secure coding, and cloud native application security. Familiarity with containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and their security implications. Our rewards We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance based annual bonuses and our longer term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we'll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we'll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you'll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions. Working Location Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow . Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. You'll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger - not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With five diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.
Pension Data Analyst - Insurance We are recruiting for a Pensions Data Analyst with strong Data Analytic skills, DB/DC and analysing data from a trustee perspective experience to join one of our Insurance clients on a 6-month contract. Inside IR35 - Hybrid responsibilities Analyse large and complex datasets from multiple sources to identify trends, risks, anomalies and opportunities. Perform data validation and quality checks, investigating discrepancies and ensuring accuracy prior to reporting. Clear experience in analysing data from a trustee perspective Apply analytical techniques to support regulatory reporting and client deliverables. Produce regular and ad hoc management information (MI) in line with the data governance framework. Translate complex data findings into clear, non-technical insights for internal stakeholders. Support data governance activities, including documentation of data sources, definitions and reporting logic, ensuring robust audit trails. Ensure data handling and reporting practices comply with internal policies and procedures. Contribute to the continuous improvement of data processes, controls and reporting automation. Skills & Experience Strong experience in data analysis and reporting Clear experience in analysing data from a trustee perspective Proven ability to work with large datasets and produce accurate, insightful reports. Advanced Excel skills. Experience supporting regulatory, client or governance reporting. Knowledge of data governance, data quality frameworks or MI standardisation. Experience using BI/reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau or similar. Defined Contributions/ Defined Benefit experience If this role is of interest and would like to know more, please apply now! Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
29/05/2026
Full time
Pension Data Analyst - Insurance We are recruiting for a Pensions Data Analyst with strong Data Analytic skills, DB/DC and analysing data from a trustee perspective experience to join one of our Insurance clients on a 6-month contract. Inside IR35 - Hybrid responsibilities Analyse large and complex datasets from multiple sources to identify trends, risks, anomalies and opportunities. Perform data validation and quality checks, investigating discrepancies and ensuring accuracy prior to reporting. Clear experience in analysing data from a trustee perspective Apply analytical techniques to support regulatory reporting and client deliverables. Produce regular and ad hoc management information (MI) in line with the data governance framework. Translate complex data findings into clear, non-technical insights for internal stakeholders. Support data governance activities, including documentation of data sources, definitions and reporting logic, ensuring robust audit trails. Ensure data handling and reporting practices comply with internal policies and procedures. Contribute to the continuous improvement of data processes, controls and reporting automation. Skills & Experience Strong experience in data analysis and reporting Clear experience in analysing data from a trustee perspective Proven ability to work with large datasets and produce accurate, insightful reports. Advanced Excel skills. Experience supporting regulatory, client or governance reporting. Knowledge of data governance, data quality frameworks or MI standardisation. Experience using BI/reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau or similar. Defined Contributions/ Defined Benefit experience If this role is of interest and would like to know more, please apply now! Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Title: Data Analyst Location: Hybrid, 3 days a week in Manchester, 2 days remote Salary: From £40,000 WHO WE ARE: interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. PURPOSE OF ROLE: As a Data Analyst in the Data and Innovation team at interactive investor, you will be a key driver of the organisation's data-centric culture, harnessing data to inform strategic business decisions. Your role is to synthesise complex data sets into clear, actionable insights that shape product optimisation, customer engagement, and operational efficiency. Reporting to the Data Analytics and Insights Manager, you will take a lead in data storytelling, influencing the direction of products and services by understanding customer behaviours and market trends. You will foster a collaborative environment where knowledge sharing and continuous improvement are paramount. Your expertise will contribute to the development of a centralised data analytics framework, bridging the gap between technical data analysis and strategic business initiatives. You will be responsible for maintaining and advancing our data reporting systems, ensuring they provide a robust foundation for data-driven decision-making across the company. At times you may need to make predictive models to understand the potential impact that changes may have against our business. In this role, you will be expected to stay abreast of the latest tools and techniques in data analytics, bringing innovative solutions to the table and maintaining the team's competitive edge - for example in tools like: SQL, Snowflake, Python, Google Analytics/other web analytics, Power BI. Your contributions will directly impact interactive investor's ability to deliver enhanced customer experiences, optimise products and services, and drive business growth. Through your work, you will help establish a legacy of data excellence within the organisation, positioning interactive investor at the forefront of investment platforms that leverage data for success. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Analyse Data and Generate Insights: Extract and analyse data from our data lakes and relevant sources to provide actionable insights for business decisions and strategy formulation Reporting and Visualisation: Develop, maintain, and automate insightful BI and MI reports, ensuring data accuracy and relevance. Champion the automation of reporting capabilities to enhance efficiency Reporting Automation: Work to automate reporting capability through effective use of SQL, Python, Power BI, and other tools to streamline the data analysis process Collaborative Analysis: Develop strong partnerships with stakeholders from Product, Commercial, Technology, Customer Services, and Operations, etc., to understand requirements, to support their data needs and encourage the leveraging of data for product and service improvements, and create a data-led culture KPI and Data Insight Development: Lead or contribute to the development and tracking of KPIs and data insights across the company, ensuring a consistent set of measures is used for decision-making. Analytics Platforms: Utilise platforms such as SQL, Snowflake, Power BI, Usabilla, Google Analytics, Optimizely, ContentSquare, and Hotjar for in-depth analysis and to create insightful reports Data Science Techniques: Apply data science methodologies, for example, statistical modelling, segmentation analysis, time series analysis, and some predictive techniques to analyse customer behaviour patterns and assess business impacts, collaborating with Data and Innovation team members across different roles to deliver actionable insights AI/ML Power User: Leverage existing AI and machine learning platforms as a power user to enhance analytical capabilities and productivity Cross-Channel Analysis: Conduct comprehensive data analysis across all channels and systems, collaborating with subject matter experts Mentorship and Team Support: Mentor and support team members in best practices and analytical techniques Data Governance and Compliance: Ensure adherence to data protection laws and company policies, maintaining privacy and security standards across all data handling activities Cross-functional Collaboration: Actively engage with various departments to integrate data-driven insights into business processes, enhancing decision-making and strategic initiatives Continuous Learning: Commit to ongoing professional development in data analytics, staying current with industry trends, tools, and best practices Performance Monitoring & Reporting: Regularly track and report on key performance indicators relevant to each role's domain, contributing to the overall success metrics of the team Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Proactively seek and implement innovative solutions to enhance analytics capabilities and drive continuous improvement in processes and outcomes Team Collaboration and Problem-Solving: Participate in team problem-solving sessions, share knowledge, and collaborate on projects to achieve common goals and resolve issues efficiently SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Essential Strong background in analytics, ideally within a commercial or digital product/service context Proficiency in SQL, data visualisation tools (e.g., Streamlit/Python, Power BI, Data Studio/Looker, GA4 Reports), and dashboard/report creation Experience with Google Marketing Cloud, inc. Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, etc Knowledge of statistical concepts, techniques, and methodologies, and experience with data modelling and architecture Experience of data science techniques and methodologies, for example statistical modelling, segmentation analysis, time series analysis, predictive modelling approaches, or other data modelling AI/ML platform proficiency: Experience using AI and machine learning platforms and tools as a power user to enhance analytical capabilities Effective communication and presentation skills, able to transform complex data into clear insights Strong stakeholder management skills Proactive, personable, and able to build relationships across teams Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and attention to detail Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results within deadlines Understanding of KPIs and success measures Experience in data projects Desirable Experience in the investment industry or a strong interest in financial markets Interest in investing, with knowledge of investment products and market trends Proficiency in Python, or other languages, for data analysis Experience with A/B testing, funnel optimisation, and conversion rate optimisation techniques Familiarity with machine learning techniques and their application in predictive modelling Familiarity with Jira/Confluence or similar project management tools Group Personal Pension Plan - 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Private Medical Insurance - Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund - Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts - Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits - Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle Please Note: We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful. interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation - whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive.
27/05/2026
Full time
Title: Data Analyst Location: Hybrid, 3 days a week in Manchester, 2 days remote Salary: From £40,000 WHO WE ARE: interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. PURPOSE OF ROLE: As a Data Analyst in the Data and Innovation team at interactive investor, you will be a key driver of the organisation's data-centric culture, harnessing data to inform strategic business decisions. Your role is to synthesise complex data sets into clear, actionable insights that shape product optimisation, customer engagement, and operational efficiency. Reporting to the Data Analytics and Insights Manager, you will take a lead in data storytelling, influencing the direction of products and services by understanding customer behaviours and market trends. You will foster a collaborative environment where knowledge sharing and continuous improvement are paramount. Your expertise will contribute to the development of a centralised data analytics framework, bridging the gap between technical data analysis and strategic business initiatives. You will be responsible for maintaining and advancing our data reporting systems, ensuring they provide a robust foundation for data-driven decision-making across the company. At times you may need to make predictive models to understand the potential impact that changes may have against our business. In this role, you will be expected to stay abreast of the latest tools and techniques in data analytics, bringing innovative solutions to the table and maintaining the team's competitive edge - for example in tools like: SQL, Snowflake, Python, Google Analytics/other web analytics, Power BI. Your contributions will directly impact interactive investor's ability to deliver enhanced customer experiences, optimise products and services, and drive business growth. Through your work, you will help establish a legacy of data excellence within the organisation, positioning interactive investor at the forefront of investment platforms that leverage data for success. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Analyse Data and Generate Insights: Extract and analyse data from our data lakes and relevant sources to provide actionable insights for business decisions and strategy formulation Reporting and Visualisation: Develop, maintain, and automate insightful BI and MI reports, ensuring data accuracy and relevance. Champion the automation of reporting capabilities to enhance efficiency Reporting Automation: Work to automate reporting capability through effective use of SQL, Python, Power BI, and other tools to streamline the data analysis process Collaborative Analysis: Develop strong partnerships with stakeholders from Product, Commercial, Technology, Customer Services, and Operations, etc., to understand requirements, to support their data needs and encourage the leveraging of data for product and service improvements, and create a data-led culture KPI and Data Insight Development: Lead or contribute to the development and tracking of KPIs and data insights across the company, ensuring a consistent set of measures is used for decision-making. Analytics Platforms: Utilise platforms such as SQL, Snowflake, Power BI, Usabilla, Google Analytics, Optimizely, ContentSquare, and Hotjar for in-depth analysis and to create insightful reports Data Science Techniques: Apply data science methodologies, for example, statistical modelling, segmentation analysis, time series analysis, and some predictive techniques to analyse customer behaviour patterns and assess business impacts, collaborating with Data and Innovation team members across different roles to deliver actionable insights AI/ML Power User: Leverage existing AI and machine learning platforms as a power user to enhance analytical capabilities and productivity Cross-Channel Analysis: Conduct comprehensive data analysis across all channels and systems, collaborating with subject matter experts Mentorship and Team Support: Mentor and support team members in best practices and analytical techniques Data Governance and Compliance: Ensure adherence to data protection laws and company policies, maintaining privacy and security standards across all data handling activities Cross-functional Collaboration: Actively engage with various departments to integrate data-driven insights into business processes, enhancing decision-making and strategic initiatives Continuous Learning: Commit to ongoing professional development in data analytics, staying current with industry trends, tools, and best practices Performance Monitoring & Reporting: Regularly track and report on key performance indicators relevant to each role's domain, contributing to the overall success metrics of the team Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Proactively seek and implement innovative solutions to enhance analytics capabilities and drive continuous improvement in processes and outcomes Team Collaboration and Problem-Solving: Participate in team problem-solving sessions, share knowledge, and collaborate on projects to achieve common goals and resolve issues efficiently SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Essential Strong background in analytics, ideally within a commercial or digital product/service context Proficiency in SQL, data visualisation tools (e.g., Streamlit/Python, Power BI, Data Studio/Looker, GA4 Reports), and dashboard/report creation Experience with Google Marketing Cloud, inc. Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, etc Knowledge of statistical concepts, techniques, and methodologies, and experience with data modelling and architecture Experience of data science techniques and methodologies, for example statistical modelling, segmentation analysis, time series analysis, predictive modelling approaches, or other data modelling AI/ML platform proficiency: Experience using AI and machine learning platforms and tools as a power user to enhance analytical capabilities Effective communication and presentation skills, able to transform complex data into clear insights Strong stakeholder management skills Proactive, personable, and able to build relationships across teams Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and attention to detail Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results within deadlines Understanding of KPIs and success measures Experience in data projects Desirable Experience in the investment industry or a strong interest in financial markets Interest in investing, with knowledge of investment products and market trends Proficiency in Python, or other languages, for data analysis Experience with A/B testing, funnel optimisation, and conversion rate optimisation techniques Familiarity with machine learning techniques and their application in predictive modelling Familiarity with Jira/Confluence or similar project management tools Group Personal Pension Plan - 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Private Medical Insurance - Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund - Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts - Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits - Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle Please Note: We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful. interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation - whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive.
IT Technology Planning & Governance Manager with Enterprise Architect Solutions Our Client is a leading company in the UK who are looking to recruit a candidate with at least 10 years expertise in IT technology and governance planning with Enterprise Architect Solutions experience. The role is Technology Planning Manager where you are responsible for the ongoing development and maintenance of the technology alignment roadmap for Corporate working closely with senior stakeholders, systems owners and 3rd parties to deliver innovation. Lead day-to-day support and management of the core business Applications Portfolio lifecycle including but not limited to Finance, Legal, Property, Pensions, Treasury, HR, Business Development, Payroll and our Corporate Intranet ensuring that delivery of change is fit for purpose, of high quality, reliable and secure. Role Responsibilities Drive customer centricity and stakeholder engagement, work closely with Corp functions to align application roadmaps with the combined Corp IT / SSC annual technology plans and dependencies. Work with senior stakeholders to build, document and map business capability to solution architecture across the Corp. Take ownership and develop a technology roadmap that meets the application requirements of the Corp to support the wider Company businesses. Evaluate the potential impacts of application workloads moving to cloud, notwithstanding the threats and opportunities for Corp functions. Shape, create and present business cases for high level initiatives, seek approval, funding and prioritisation with senior stakeholders. Understand the capital allocation requirement across the Corp functions plus the overall impact of application change on the operational expenditure budget. Align technology roadmaps and annual budget planning, use as the foundation for reporting on the state of the Corp Application portfolio. Provide technical leadership for Corp initiatives engaging across the Company where corporate applications service the wider businesses. Solve complex business problems with process and technology that cut across Corp group such as Identity and Access Management. Document and review IT standards, procedures and policies to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Liaise with internal and external audit teams. Develop and adapt innovation tools and processes to drive operational excellence within Corp IT. Establish and maintain a consistent and integrated approach to information security and data protection governance in line with audit requirements. Create alignment on how to utilise governance forums such as User Experience and Architecture to improve services delivered to Corp functions. Manage solution architects, contractors, 3rd Parties and business analyst in the future. Experience Required Significant and relevant progressive IT experience Experience of being in a practical solution planning and technical architecture design role is essential e.g. SaaS, Identity and Access Management Good understanding of emerging and innovative technologies, how to shape, deliver and leverage those technologies Experience of architecture business capability mapping, data management governance, technology roadmaps and project delivery lifecycle processes. Experience of ensuring compliance between corporate business application roadmaps and IT roadmaps. Experience of working within an ITIL service management environment with strong knowledge of business systems or applications within a corporate environment. Ability to deal with and manage conflicts whilst building successful business relationships across a range of stakeholder groups both internal and external to the organisation. Proven leadership skills, setting objectives and ensuring delivery of services to target Proven contract management, supplier management, procurement, and vendor selection experience Experience of systems such as Microsoft Office 365, Dynamics 365, SAP Success Factors, Treasury Openlink Findur, CMS, BACs Payment Platforms, Microsoft Power BI, Integration/ETL, Azure Active Directory Single Sign On and other bespoke applications Experience in executing business continuity planning and IT DRP Creating solution and technical application architectures, IT standards and policies Day to Day management of the Application Portfolio, its currency, dependencies and risk Technical lead on major system changes and upgrades Responsible for the development and management of Solution Architects, Business Analyst and contract resources Provide support to Corporate functions and wider businesses to enable them to optimise their use of corporate applications Vendor Management and selection (RFIs / RFP support) The Client is based in Central London. The salary for this role will be in the range of £90K - £110K + Benefits. Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.
27/05/2026
Full time
IT Technology Planning & Governance Manager with Enterprise Architect Solutions Our Client is a leading company in the UK who are looking to recruit a candidate with at least 10 years expertise in IT technology and governance planning with Enterprise Architect Solutions experience. The role is Technology Planning Manager where you are responsible for the ongoing development and maintenance of the technology alignment roadmap for Corporate working closely with senior stakeholders, systems owners and 3rd parties to deliver innovation. Lead day-to-day support and management of the core business Applications Portfolio lifecycle including but not limited to Finance, Legal, Property, Pensions, Treasury, HR, Business Development, Payroll and our Corporate Intranet ensuring that delivery of change is fit for purpose, of high quality, reliable and secure. Role Responsibilities Drive customer centricity and stakeholder engagement, work closely with Corp functions to align application roadmaps with the combined Corp IT / SSC annual technology plans and dependencies. Work with senior stakeholders to build, document and map business capability to solution architecture across the Corp. Take ownership and develop a technology roadmap that meets the application requirements of the Corp to support the wider Company businesses. Evaluate the potential impacts of application workloads moving to cloud, notwithstanding the threats and opportunities for Corp functions. Shape, create and present business cases for high level initiatives, seek approval, funding and prioritisation with senior stakeholders. Understand the capital allocation requirement across the Corp functions plus the overall impact of application change on the operational expenditure budget. Align technology roadmaps and annual budget planning, use as the foundation for reporting on the state of the Corp Application portfolio. Provide technical leadership for Corp initiatives engaging across the Company where corporate applications service the wider businesses. Solve complex business problems with process and technology that cut across Corp group such as Identity and Access Management. Document and review IT standards, procedures and policies to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Liaise with internal and external audit teams. Develop and adapt innovation tools and processes to drive operational excellence within Corp IT. Establish and maintain a consistent and integrated approach to information security and data protection governance in line with audit requirements. Create alignment on how to utilise governance forums such as User Experience and Architecture to improve services delivered to Corp functions. Manage solution architects, contractors, 3rd Parties and business analyst in the future. Experience Required Significant and relevant progressive IT experience Experience of being in a practical solution planning and technical architecture design role is essential e.g. SaaS, Identity and Access Management Good understanding of emerging and innovative technologies, how to shape, deliver and leverage those technologies Experience of architecture business capability mapping, data management governance, technology roadmaps and project delivery lifecycle processes. Experience of ensuring compliance between corporate business application roadmaps and IT roadmaps. Experience of working within an ITIL service management environment with strong knowledge of business systems or applications within a corporate environment. Ability to deal with and manage conflicts whilst building successful business relationships across a range of stakeholder groups both internal and external to the organisation. Proven leadership skills, setting objectives and ensuring delivery of services to target Proven contract management, supplier management, procurement, and vendor selection experience Experience of systems such as Microsoft Office 365, Dynamics 365, SAP Success Factors, Treasury Openlink Findur, CMS, BACs Payment Platforms, Microsoft Power BI, Integration/ETL, Azure Active Directory Single Sign On and other bespoke applications Experience in executing business continuity planning and IT DRP Creating solution and technical application architectures, IT standards and policies Day to Day management of the Application Portfolio, its currency, dependencies and risk Technical lead on major system changes and upgrades Responsible for the development and management of Solution Architects, Business Analyst and contract resources Provide support to Corporate functions and wider businesses to enable them to optimise their use of corporate applications Vendor Management and selection (RFIs / RFP support) The Client is based in Central London. The salary for this role will be in the range of £90K - £110K + Benefits. Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.
Title: Data Analyst Location: Hybrid, 3 days a week in Manchester, 2 days remote Salary: From £40,000 WHO WE ARE: interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. PURPOSE OF ROLE: As a Data Analyst in the Data and Innovation team at interactive investor, you will be a key driver of the organisation's data-centric culture, harnessing data to inform strategic business decisions. Your role is to synthesise complex data sets into clear, actionable insights that shape product optimisation, customer engagement, and operational efficiency. Reporting to the Data Analytics and Insights Manager, you will take a lead in data storytelling, influencing the direction of products and services by understanding customer behaviours and market trends. You will foster a collaborative environment where knowledge sharing and continuous improvement are paramount. Your expertise will contribute to the development of a centralised data analytics framework, bridging the gap between technical data analysis and strategic business initiatives. You will be responsible for maintaining and advancing our data reporting systems, ensuring they provide a robust foundation for data-driven decision-making across the company. At times you may need to make predictive models to understand the potential impact that changes may have against our business. In this role, you will be expected to stay abreast of the latest tools and techniques in data analytics, bringing innovative solutions to the table and maintaining the team's competitive edge - for example in tools like: SQL, Snowflake, Python, Google Analytics/other web analytics, Power BI. Your contributions will directly impact interactive investor's ability to deliver enhanced customer experiences, optimise products and services, and drive business growth. Through your work, you will help establish a legacy of data excellence within the organisation, positioning interactive investor at the forefront of investment platforms that leverage data for success. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Analyse Data and Generate Insights: Extract and analyse data from our data lakes and relevant sources to provide actionable insights for business decisions and strategy formulation Reporting and Visualisation: Develop, maintain, and automate insightful BI and MI reports, ensuring data accuracy and relevance. Champion the automation of reporting capabilities to enhance efficiency Reporting Automation: Work to automate reporting capability through effective use of SQL, Python, Power BI, and other tools to streamline the data analysis process Collaborative Analysis: Develop strong partnerships with stakeholders from Product, Commercial, Technology, Customer Services, and Operations, etc., to understand requirements, to support their data needs and encourage the leveraging of data for product and service improvements, and create a data-led culture KPI and Data Insight Development: Lead or contribute to the development and tracking of KPIs and data insights across the company, ensuring a consistent set of measures is used for decision-making. Analytics Platforms: Utilise platforms such as SQL, Snowflake, Power BI, Usabilla, Google Analytics, Optimizely, ContentSquare, and Hotjar for in-depth analysis and to create insightful reports Data Science Techniques: Apply data science methodologies, for example, statistical modelling, segmentation analysis, time series analysis, and some predictive techniques to analyse customer behaviour patterns and assess business impacts, collaborating with Data and Innovation team members across different roles to deliver actionable insights AI/ML Power User: Leverage existing AI and machine learning platforms as a power user to enhance analytical capabilities and productivity Cross-Channel Analysis: Conduct comprehensive data analysis across all channels and systems, collaborating with subject matter experts Mentorship and Team Support: Mentor and support team members in best practices and analytical techniques Data Governance and Compliance: Ensure adherence to data protection laws and company policies, maintaining privacy and security standards across all data handling activities Cross-functional Collaboration: Actively engage with various departments to integrate data-driven insights into business processes, enhancing decision-making and strategic initiatives Continuous Learning: Commit to ongoing professional development in data analytics, staying current with industry trends, tools, and best practices Performance Monitoring & Reporting: Regularly track and report on key performance indicators relevant to each role's domain, contributing to the overall success metrics of the team Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Proactively seek and implement innovative solutions to enhance analytics capabilities and drive continuous improvement in processes and outcomes Team Collaboration and Problem-Solving: Participate in team problem-solving sessions, share knowledge, and collaborate on projects to achieve common goals and resolve issues efficiently SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Essential Strong background in analytics, ideally within a commercial or digital product/service context Proficiency in SQL, data visualisation tools (e.g., Streamlit/Python, Power BI, Data Studio/Looker, GA4 Reports), and dashboard/report creation Experience with Google Marketing Cloud, inc. Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, etc Knowledge of statistical concepts, techniques, and methodologies, and experience with data modelling and architecture Experience of data science techniques and methodologies, for example statistical modelling, segmentation analysis, time series analysis, predictive modelling approaches, or other data modelling AI/ML platform proficiency: Experience using AI and machine learning platforms and tools as a power user to enhance analytical capabilities Effective communication and presentation skills, able to transform complex data into clear insights Strong stakeholder management skills Proactive, personable, and able to build relationships across teams Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and attention to detail Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results within deadlines Understanding of KPIs and success measures Experience in data projects Desirable Experience in the investment industry or a strong interest in financial markets Interest in investing, with knowledge of investment products and market trends Proficiency in Python, or other languages, for data analysis Experience with A/B testing, funnel optimisation, and conversion rate optimisation techniques Familiarity with machine learning techniques and their application in predictive modelling Familiarity with Jira/Confluence or similar project management tools Group Personal Pension Plan - 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Private Medical Insurance - Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund - Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts - Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits - Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle Please Note: We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful. interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation - whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive.
27/05/2026
Full time
Title: Data Analyst Location: Hybrid, 3 days a week in Manchester, 2 days remote Salary: From £40,000 WHO WE ARE: interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. PURPOSE OF ROLE: As a Data Analyst in the Data and Innovation team at interactive investor, you will be a key driver of the organisation's data-centric culture, harnessing data to inform strategic business decisions. Your role is to synthesise complex data sets into clear, actionable insights that shape product optimisation, customer engagement, and operational efficiency. Reporting to the Data Analytics and Insights Manager, you will take a lead in data storytelling, influencing the direction of products and services by understanding customer behaviours and market trends. You will foster a collaborative environment where knowledge sharing and continuous improvement are paramount. Your expertise will contribute to the development of a centralised data analytics framework, bridging the gap between technical data analysis and strategic business initiatives. You will be responsible for maintaining and advancing our data reporting systems, ensuring they provide a robust foundation for data-driven decision-making across the company. At times you may need to make predictive models to understand the potential impact that changes may have against our business. In this role, you will be expected to stay abreast of the latest tools and techniques in data analytics, bringing innovative solutions to the table and maintaining the team's competitive edge - for example in tools like: SQL, Snowflake, Python, Google Analytics/other web analytics, Power BI. Your contributions will directly impact interactive investor's ability to deliver enhanced customer experiences, optimise products and services, and drive business growth. Through your work, you will help establish a legacy of data excellence within the organisation, positioning interactive investor at the forefront of investment platforms that leverage data for success. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Analyse Data and Generate Insights: Extract and analyse data from our data lakes and relevant sources to provide actionable insights for business decisions and strategy formulation Reporting and Visualisation: Develop, maintain, and automate insightful BI and MI reports, ensuring data accuracy and relevance. Champion the automation of reporting capabilities to enhance efficiency Reporting Automation: Work to automate reporting capability through effective use of SQL, Python, Power BI, and other tools to streamline the data analysis process Collaborative Analysis: Develop strong partnerships with stakeholders from Product, Commercial, Technology, Customer Services, and Operations, etc., to understand requirements, to support their data needs and encourage the leveraging of data for product and service improvements, and create a data-led culture KPI and Data Insight Development: Lead or contribute to the development and tracking of KPIs and data insights across the company, ensuring a consistent set of measures is used for decision-making. Analytics Platforms: Utilise platforms such as SQL, Snowflake, Power BI, Usabilla, Google Analytics, Optimizely, ContentSquare, and Hotjar for in-depth analysis and to create insightful reports Data Science Techniques: Apply data science methodologies, for example, statistical modelling, segmentation analysis, time series analysis, and some predictive techniques to analyse customer behaviour patterns and assess business impacts, collaborating with Data and Innovation team members across different roles to deliver actionable insights AI/ML Power User: Leverage existing AI and machine learning platforms as a power user to enhance analytical capabilities and productivity Cross-Channel Analysis: Conduct comprehensive data analysis across all channels and systems, collaborating with subject matter experts Mentorship and Team Support: Mentor and support team members in best practices and analytical techniques Data Governance and Compliance: Ensure adherence to data protection laws and company policies, maintaining privacy and security standards across all data handling activities Cross-functional Collaboration: Actively engage with various departments to integrate data-driven insights into business processes, enhancing decision-making and strategic initiatives Continuous Learning: Commit to ongoing professional development in data analytics, staying current with industry trends, tools, and best practices Performance Monitoring & Reporting: Regularly track and report on key performance indicators relevant to each role's domain, contributing to the overall success metrics of the team Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Proactively seek and implement innovative solutions to enhance analytics capabilities and drive continuous improvement in processes and outcomes Team Collaboration and Problem-Solving: Participate in team problem-solving sessions, share knowledge, and collaborate on projects to achieve common goals and resolve issues efficiently SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Essential Strong background in analytics, ideally within a commercial or digital product/service context Proficiency in SQL, data visualisation tools (e.g., Streamlit/Python, Power BI, Data Studio/Looker, GA4 Reports), and dashboard/report creation Experience with Google Marketing Cloud, inc. Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, etc Knowledge of statistical concepts, techniques, and methodologies, and experience with data modelling and architecture Experience of data science techniques and methodologies, for example statistical modelling, segmentation analysis, time series analysis, predictive modelling approaches, or other data modelling AI/ML platform proficiency: Experience using AI and machine learning platforms and tools as a power user to enhance analytical capabilities Effective communication and presentation skills, able to transform complex data into clear insights Strong stakeholder management skills Proactive, personable, and able to build relationships across teams Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and attention to detail Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results within deadlines Understanding of KPIs and success measures Experience in data projects Desirable Experience in the investment industry or a strong interest in financial markets Interest in investing, with knowledge of investment products and market trends Proficiency in Python, or other languages, for data analysis Experience with A/B testing, funnel optimisation, and conversion rate optimisation techniques Familiarity with machine learning techniques and their application in predictive modelling Familiarity with Jira/Confluence or similar project management tools Group Personal Pension Plan - 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Private Medical Insurance - Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund - Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts - Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits - Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle Please Note: We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful. interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation - whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive.
This role is for a strong Technical Payroll Analyst with hands-on Zellis experience to review and assess their current payroll setup and reporting environment. The role will focus on analysing the existing ResourceLink platform, including payroll data structures and tables, reporting, payslip generation, P60s, and pensions processing. The successful consultant will help assess whether the current setup is fit for purpose and support future system decisions. Key responsibilities: Review and assess the current Zellis payroll environment and configuration Analyse payroll data structures, tables, and legacy payroll data Evaluate the effectiveness and accuracy of current reporting processes Support and review payroll outputs including payslips, P60s, and pensions processing Identify system improvements, optimisation opportunities, and potential risk Required experience: Proven experience working with Zellis payroll systems Strong technical payroll analysis experience Good understanding of payroll reporting and payroll data structures Key details: East Midlands Initial 3-month contract with potential extension Inside IR35 Hybrid working 2/3 days per week onsite ASAP start
26/05/2026
Contractor
This role is for a strong Technical Payroll Analyst with hands-on Zellis experience to review and assess their current payroll setup and reporting environment. The role will focus on analysing the existing ResourceLink platform, including payroll data structures and tables, reporting, payslip generation, P60s, and pensions processing. The successful consultant will help assess whether the current setup is fit for purpose and support future system decisions. Key responsibilities: Review and assess the current Zellis payroll environment and configuration Analyse payroll data structures, tables, and legacy payroll data Evaluate the effectiveness and accuracy of current reporting processes Support and review payroll outputs including payslips, P60s, and pensions processing Identify system improvements, optimisation opportunities, and potential risk Required experience: Proven experience working with Zellis payroll systems Strong technical payroll analysis experience Good understanding of payroll reporting and payroll data structures Key details: East Midlands Initial 3-month contract with potential extension Inside IR35 Hybrid working 2/3 days per week onsite ASAP start
Introductory Marketing Language Join a front office team at JPMorgan Chase and help shape the future of institutional investment management. As an Institutional Strategy and Analytics Analyst, you'll collaborate with professionals across asset allocation, optimization, and actuarial science to deliver innovative solutions for insurance companies, pension funds, and other institutional investors. This is your opportunity to grow your career, apply your programming skills, and make a meaningful impact in a dynamic, inclusive environment. We value your analytical mindset, technical expertise, and commitment to excellence. Job Summary As an Institutional Strategy and Analytics Analyst, you will support the development and enhancement of investment management solutions for institutional clients. You'll work on optimization analysis, application development, financial data analysis, and stochastic modeling. The role is primarily UK-focused but may include international components, especially for candidates with relevant language skills. You'll collaborate with investment teams and the institutional salesforce, gaining broad exposure across asset classes and client types. Job responsibilities Enhance existing modeling platforms by adapting models to improve scalability, flexibility, and efficiency. Develop new analytical capabilities, including models for constrained asset allocation, tactical portfolio optimization, and sales insights. Complete client advisory assignments, including analysis, presentation of results, and incorporation of revisions or extensions. Develop intellectual capital by producing high-quality research and analysis in response to industry developments. Collaborate with investment teams and institutional salesforce to deliver tailored solutions for clients. Support application development for internal and external clients, focusing on asset allocation, capital management, and risk management. Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or analytical discipline (e.g., actuarial science, computer science, mathematics, physics, operations research, statistics, engineering) or equivalent experience. Excellent programming skills, with experience in Python and agentic AI tools for programming and data applications. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and communicate complex concepts clearly. Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills Experience with object-oriented programming and sound software engineering practices. Ability to apply investment management concepts such as efficient frontiers, capital constraints, risk attribution, and factor investing. Familiarity with asset classes (e.g., corporate bonds, CLOs, private equity) and their risk and return characteristics. Coursework or experience in linear and non-linear optimization, advanced statistical methods, econometrics, and stochastic processes. Working familiarity with IFRS accounting, insurance capital models (e.g., Solvency II), or defined benefit pensions.
25/05/2026
Full time
Introductory Marketing Language Join a front office team at JPMorgan Chase and help shape the future of institutional investment management. As an Institutional Strategy and Analytics Analyst, you'll collaborate with professionals across asset allocation, optimization, and actuarial science to deliver innovative solutions for insurance companies, pension funds, and other institutional investors. This is your opportunity to grow your career, apply your programming skills, and make a meaningful impact in a dynamic, inclusive environment. We value your analytical mindset, technical expertise, and commitment to excellence. Job Summary As an Institutional Strategy and Analytics Analyst, you will support the development and enhancement of investment management solutions for institutional clients. You'll work on optimization analysis, application development, financial data analysis, and stochastic modeling. The role is primarily UK-focused but may include international components, especially for candidates with relevant language skills. You'll collaborate with investment teams and the institutional salesforce, gaining broad exposure across asset classes and client types. Job responsibilities Enhance existing modeling platforms by adapting models to improve scalability, flexibility, and efficiency. Develop new analytical capabilities, including models for constrained asset allocation, tactical portfolio optimization, and sales insights. Complete client advisory assignments, including analysis, presentation of results, and incorporation of revisions or extensions. Develop intellectual capital by producing high-quality research and analysis in response to industry developments. Collaborate with investment teams and institutional salesforce to deliver tailored solutions for clients. Support application development for internal and external clients, focusing on asset allocation, capital management, and risk management. Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or analytical discipline (e.g., actuarial science, computer science, mathematics, physics, operations research, statistics, engineering) or equivalent experience. Excellent programming skills, with experience in Python and agentic AI tools for programming and data applications. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and communicate complex concepts clearly. Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills Experience with object-oriented programming and sound software engineering practices. Ability to apply investment management concepts such as efficient frontiers, capital constraints, risk attribution, and factor investing. Familiarity with asset classes (e.g., corporate bonds, CLOs, private equity) and their risk and return characteristics. Coursework or experience in linear and non-linear optimization, advanced statistical methods, econometrics, and stochastic processes. Working familiarity with IFRS accounting, insurance capital models (e.g., Solvency II), or defined benefit pensions.
Technology Planning and Governance Manager Be responsible for the ongoing development and maintenance of the technology alignment roadmap for Corporate working closely with senior stakeholders, systems owners and 3rd parties to deliver innovation. Lead day-to-day support and management of the core business Applications Portfolio lifecycle including but not limited to Finance, Legal, Property, Pensions, Treasury, HR, Business Development, Payroll and our Corporate Intranet ensuring that delivery of change is fit for purpose, of high quality, reliable and secure. Role Responsibilities Drive customer-centricity and stakeholder engagement, work closely with Corp functions to align application roadmaps with the combined Corp IT / SSC annual technology plans and dependencies. Work with senior stakeholders to build, document and map business capability to solution architecture across the Corp. Take ownership and develop a technology roadmap that meets the application requirements of the Corp to support the wider Company businesses. Evaluate the potential impacts of application workloads moving to cloud, notwithstanding the threats and opportunities for Corp functions. Shape, create and present business cases for high level initiatives, seek approval, funding and prioritisation with senior stakeholders. Understand the capital allocation requirement across the Corp functions plus the overall impact of application change on the operational expenditure budget. Align technology roadmaps and annual budget planning, use as the foundation for reporting on the state of the Corp Application portfolio. Provide technical leadership for Corp initiatives engaging across the Company where corporate applications service the wider businesses. Solve complex business problems with process and technology that cut across Corp group such as Identity and Access Management. Document and review IT standards, procedures and policies to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Liaise with internal and external audit teams. Develop and adapt innovation tools and processes to drive operational excellence within Corp IT. Establish and maintain a consistent and integrated approach to information security and data protection governance in line with audit requirements. Create alignment on how to utilise governance forums such as User Experience and Architecture to improve services delivered to Corp functions. Manage solution architects, contractors, 3rd Parties and business analyst in the future. Experience Required Significant and relevant progressive IT experience Experience of being in a practical solution planning and technical architecture design role is essential e.g. SaaS, Identity and Access Management Good understanding of emerging and innovative technologies, how to shape, deliver and leverage those technologies Experience of architecture business capability mapping, data management governance, technology roadmaps and project delivery lifecycle processes. Experience of ensuring compliance between corporate business application roadmaps and IT roadmaps. Experience of working within an ITIL service management environment with strong knowledge of business systems or applications within a corporate environment. Ability to deal with and manage conflicts whilst building successful business relationships across a range of stakeholder groups both internal and external to the organisation. Proven leadership skills, setting objectives and ensuring delivery of services to target Proven contract management, supplier management, procurement, and vendor selection experience Experience of systems such as Microsoft Office 365, Dynamics 365, SAP Success Factors, Treasury Openlink Findur, CMS, BACs Payment Platforms, Microsoft Power BI, Integration/ETL, Azure Active Directory Single Sign On and other bespoke applications Experience in executing business continuity planning and IT DRP Creating solution and technical application architectures, IT standards and policies Day-to-Day management of the Application Portfolio, its currency, dependencies and risk Technical lead on major system changes and upgrades Responsible for the development and management of Solution Architects, Business Analyst and contract resources Provide support to Corporate functions and wider businesses to enable them to optimise their use of corporate applications Vendor Management and selection (RFIs / RFP support) The Client is based in Central London. Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.
25/05/2026
Full time
Technology Planning and Governance Manager Be responsible for the ongoing development and maintenance of the technology alignment roadmap for Corporate working closely with senior stakeholders, systems owners and 3rd parties to deliver innovation. Lead day-to-day support and management of the core business Applications Portfolio lifecycle including but not limited to Finance, Legal, Property, Pensions, Treasury, HR, Business Development, Payroll and our Corporate Intranet ensuring that delivery of change is fit for purpose, of high quality, reliable and secure. Role Responsibilities Drive customer-centricity and stakeholder engagement, work closely with Corp functions to align application roadmaps with the combined Corp IT / SSC annual technology plans and dependencies. Work with senior stakeholders to build, document and map business capability to solution architecture across the Corp. Take ownership and develop a technology roadmap that meets the application requirements of the Corp to support the wider Company businesses. Evaluate the potential impacts of application workloads moving to cloud, notwithstanding the threats and opportunities for Corp functions. Shape, create and present business cases for high level initiatives, seek approval, funding and prioritisation with senior stakeholders. Understand the capital allocation requirement across the Corp functions plus the overall impact of application change on the operational expenditure budget. Align technology roadmaps and annual budget planning, use as the foundation for reporting on the state of the Corp Application portfolio. Provide technical leadership for Corp initiatives engaging across the Company where corporate applications service the wider businesses. Solve complex business problems with process and technology that cut across Corp group such as Identity and Access Management. Document and review IT standards, procedures and policies to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Liaise with internal and external audit teams. Develop and adapt innovation tools and processes to drive operational excellence within Corp IT. Establish and maintain a consistent and integrated approach to information security and data protection governance in line with audit requirements. Create alignment on how to utilise governance forums such as User Experience and Architecture to improve services delivered to Corp functions. Manage solution architects, contractors, 3rd Parties and business analyst in the future. Experience Required Significant and relevant progressive IT experience Experience of being in a practical solution planning and technical architecture design role is essential e.g. SaaS, Identity and Access Management Good understanding of emerging and innovative technologies, how to shape, deliver and leverage those technologies Experience of architecture business capability mapping, data management governance, technology roadmaps and project delivery lifecycle processes. Experience of ensuring compliance between corporate business application roadmaps and IT roadmaps. Experience of working within an ITIL service management environment with strong knowledge of business systems or applications within a corporate environment. Ability to deal with and manage conflicts whilst building successful business relationships across a range of stakeholder groups both internal and external to the organisation. Proven leadership skills, setting objectives and ensuring delivery of services to target Proven contract management, supplier management, procurement, and vendor selection experience Experience of systems such as Microsoft Office 365, Dynamics 365, SAP Success Factors, Treasury Openlink Findur, CMS, BACs Payment Platforms, Microsoft Power BI, Integration/ETL, Azure Active Directory Single Sign On and other bespoke applications Experience in executing business continuity planning and IT DRP Creating solution and technical application architectures, IT standards and policies Day-to-Day management of the Application Portfolio, its currency, dependencies and risk Technical lead on major system changes and upgrades Responsible for the development and management of Solution Architects, Business Analyst and contract resources Provide support to Corporate functions and wider businesses to enable them to optimise their use of corporate applications Vendor Management and selection (RFIs / RFP support) The Client is based in Central London. Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.
Isio is seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst - Pensions to ensure high standards in defined benefit pension administration. This role, based in various locations including Belfast, offers a hybrid work style and a competitive salary. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong technical knowledge, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to communicate QA findings clearly to support quality improvement. Benefits include a market-leading bonus scheme, study support for PMI qualifications, and development opportunities.
22/05/2026
Full time
Isio is seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst - Pensions to ensure high standards in defined benefit pension administration. This role, based in various locations including Belfast, offers a hybrid work style and a competitive salary. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong technical knowledge, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to communicate QA findings clearly to support quality improvement. Benefits include a market-leading bonus scheme, study support for PMI qualifications, and development opportunities.
Service Desk Analyst Department: Information Technology Employment Type: Full Time Location: London Role Overview We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Service Desk Analyst to join our IT team. You will be the first point of contact for IT support across the firm, assisting colleagues with first line IT requests, account setup, hardware preparation and mobile device management. This role offers excellent opportunities to learn, develop and progress, providing a strong foundation in IT support. You'll need strong customer service skills, good problem solving ability and confidence working in a fast paced environment. A friendly, helpful approach is essential. Key Responsibilities Provide technical support to colleagues across the firm, onsite and remotely Install, configure and maintain hardware and software (laptops, printers, mobile devices) Troubleshoot Windows OS, MS 365, mobile and in house legal applications Support legal document production tools and workflows Manage user accounts and access to applications Maintain IT asset records and documentation Support meeting room technology, including AV and conferencing tools (Teams/Zoom) Assist with network connectivity, VPN access and remote working setups Resolve issues within agreed SLAs and escalates when needed Work with external vendors and IT providers Manage mobile device setup, enrolment and support (MDM, Intune) Manage the joiners movers leavers process, including account creation and hardware allocation Assist with hardware imaging, setup and deployment Participate in on call or out of hours support where required Desirable: Exposure to ITSM tools, basic ITIL knowledge, or certifications such as CompTIA A+, ITIL Foundation, or Azure Fundamentals. About You 1-2 years of Service Desk experience, ideally in legal or professional services Strong interest in IT and technology Confident, friendly and client focused with strong customer service skills Good problem solving and troubleshooting abilityBasic understanding of network infrastructure Proactive, organised and able to manage multiple tasks Strong communication skills Comfortable building relationships across the firm About our IT Team Our IT team totals 13 people and is made up of the Infrastructure & Applications, Service Desk and IT training and business engagement teams. We work cohesively and interact daily to support the business and their needs. What are we like to work for? Impact Driven Purpose: We align profit with social purpose to create lasting positive impact for our people, communities and planet. Committed to the Climate: Through our Climate & Nature Group, we reduce environmental impact and support a just transition to net zero. Championing Inclusion: We foster a diverse and inclusive culture where creativity and innovation thrive. Flexible and Hybrid Working: Our hybrid model supports balance, with at least two office days per week. Progressive Benefits: We offer sustainable pensions, IVF support, private healthcare and a range of wellbeing and personal development benefits. At Bates Wells, equity, diversity and inclusion are part of who we are and how we work. As a B Corp and purpose driven law firm, we're committed to building a workplace that is fair, inclusive and representative of all.
21/05/2026
Full time
Service Desk Analyst Department: Information Technology Employment Type: Full Time Location: London Role Overview We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Service Desk Analyst to join our IT team. You will be the first point of contact for IT support across the firm, assisting colleagues with first line IT requests, account setup, hardware preparation and mobile device management. This role offers excellent opportunities to learn, develop and progress, providing a strong foundation in IT support. You'll need strong customer service skills, good problem solving ability and confidence working in a fast paced environment. A friendly, helpful approach is essential. Key Responsibilities Provide technical support to colleagues across the firm, onsite and remotely Install, configure and maintain hardware and software (laptops, printers, mobile devices) Troubleshoot Windows OS, MS 365, mobile and in house legal applications Support legal document production tools and workflows Manage user accounts and access to applications Maintain IT asset records and documentation Support meeting room technology, including AV and conferencing tools (Teams/Zoom) Assist with network connectivity, VPN access and remote working setups Resolve issues within agreed SLAs and escalates when needed Work with external vendors and IT providers Manage mobile device setup, enrolment and support (MDM, Intune) Manage the joiners movers leavers process, including account creation and hardware allocation Assist with hardware imaging, setup and deployment Participate in on call or out of hours support where required Desirable: Exposure to ITSM tools, basic ITIL knowledge, or certifications such as CompTIA A+, ITIL Foundation, or Azure Fundamentals. About You 1-2 years of Service Desk experience, ideally in legal or professional services Strong interest in IT and technology Confident, friendly and client focused with strong customer service skills Good problem solving and troubleshooting abilityBasic understanding of network infrastructure Proactive, organised and able to manage multiple tasks Strong communication skills Comfortable building relationships across the firm About our IT Team Our IT team totals 13 people and is made up of the Infrastructure & Applications, Service Desk and IT training and business engagement teams. We work cohesively and interact daily to support the business and their needs. What are we like to work for? Impact Driven Purpose: We align profit with social purpose to create lasting positive impact for our people, communities and planet. Committed to the Climate: Through our Climate & Nature Group, we reduce environmental impact and support a just transition to net zero. Championing Inclusion: We foster a diverse and inclusive culture where creativity and innovation thrive. Flexible and Hybrid Working: Our hybrid model supports balance, with at least two office days per week. Progressive Benefits: We offer sustainable pensions, IVF support, private healthcare and a range of wellbeing and personal development benefits. At Bates Wells, equity, diversity and inclusion are part of who we are and how we work. As a B Corp and purpose driven law firm, we're committed to building a workplace that is fair, inclusive and representative of all.
"It feels good to have a career with real purpose." Contract type: Permanent Location:Alderley Park Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based Closing date: 2nd June 2026 We are looking for a talented and driven Senior Business Analyst to join our Digital Squad, helping to improve operational efficiency, strengthen decision making, and deliver innovative solutions for our customers. In this role, you'll lead the delivery of business analysis outputs and techniques across the full change lifecycle, serving as a critical link between business and technical teams to drive clarity, alignment, and effective delivery. This is a high impact opportunity for you to apply your analytical skills to shape strategic opportunities and champion digital first capabilities that deliver better customer outcomes and greater business efficiency. If you're passionate about business analysis and excited by the Digital domain, this is your chance to make a meaningful contribution to the success ofRoyal London Group (RLG About the role Analysis of complex change initiatives. Play a pivotal role in identifying and supporting digital opportunities, articulating clear business benefits, and recommending actionable next steps to maximise value. Elicit, challenge and document requirements from stakeholders to identify and address business challenges on both waterfall and agile projects. Facilitate workshops with a wide range of stakeholders to understand current and future state, documenting process maps to reflect these. Ability to work within a team, working on one or more projects at any given time. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure proposed solutions meet the requirements. Support User Acceptance Testing. About you Experience in working in Pensions Experienced Senior Business Analyst with previous experience in a BA role. Experience in large scale transformation programmes Advanced in analytical and problem solving skills. Experience using a variety of business analysis techniques, tools and standards. Proficient interpersonal and stakeholder management skills to establish and maintain relationships. Ability to manage own workload and support colleagues. Act as a digital champion, providing guidance, sharing expertise, and supporting teams to understand and apply digital-first solutions effectively. Stay up to date with emerging digital trends, tools, and best practices to support informed decision-making and continuous improvement. About Royal London We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long term savings and asset management products and services. Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. Inclusion, diversity and belonging We're an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.
21/05/2026
Full time
"It feels good to have a career with real purpose." Contract type: Permanent Location:Alderley Park Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based Closing date: 2nd June 2026 We are looking for a talented and driven Senior Business Analyst to join our Digital Squad, helping to improve operational efficiency, strengthen decision making, and deliver innovative solutions for our customers. In this role, you'll lead the delivery of business analysis outputs and techniques across the full change lifecycle, serving as a critical link between business and technical teams to drive clarity, alignment, and effective delivery. This is a high impact opportunity for you to apply your analytical skills to shape strategic opportunities and champion digital first capabilities that deliver better customer outcomes and greater business efficiency. If you're passionate about business analysis and excited by the Digital domain, this is your chance to make a meaningful contribution to the success ofRoyal London Group (RLG About the role Analysis of complex change initiatives. Play a pivotal role in identifying and supporting digital opportunities, articulating clear business benefits, and recommending actionable next steps to maximise value. Elicit, challenge and document requirements from stakeholders to identify and address business challenges on both waterfall and agile projects. Facilitate workshops with a wide range of stakeholders to understand current and future state, documenting process maps to reflect these. Ability to work within a team, working on one or more projects at any given time. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure proposed solutions meet the requirements. Support User Acceptance Testing. About you Experience in working in Pensions Experienced Senior Business Analyst with previous experience in a BA role. Experience in large scale transformation programmes Advanced in analytical and problem solving skills. Experience using a variety of business analysis techniques, tools and standards. Proficient interpersonal and stakeholder management skills to establish and maintain relationships. Ability to manage own workload and support colleagues. Act as a digital champion, providing guidance, sharing expertise, and supporting teams to understand and apply digital-first solutions effectively. Stay up to date with emerging digital trends, tools, and best practices to support informed decision-making and continuous improvement. About Royal London We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long term savings and asset management products and services. Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. Inclusion, diversity and belonging We're an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.
Royal London is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join their Digital Squad in Alderley Park. This role focuses on improving operational efficiency and delivering innovative solutions for customers, acting as a vital link between business and technical teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong analytical background, experience in the pensions sector, and the ability to manage stakeholder relationships while leading business analysis outputs across various projects.
21/05/2026
Full time
Royal London is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join their Digital Squad in Alderley Park. This role focuses on improving operational efficiency and delivering innovative solutions for customers, acting as a vital link between business and technical teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong analytical background, experience in the pensions sector, and the ability to manage stakeholder relationships while leading business analysis outputs across various projects.
Salary: £66,332. This includes a £3,000 non-consolidated market rate supplement. There is also an opportunity to qualify for additional allowances and a skills-related payment under the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (formerly the Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) Profession Capability Framework.) Flexible Working: We offer a strong work life balance, supporting full time, part time, and flexible hours. You'll be predominantly office based, with working from home limited and subject to business need. About us MI5 keeps the country safe from serious threats like terrorism and attempts by states to harm the UK, its people and way of life. We carry out investigations by obtaining, analysing, and assessing intelligence, and then work with a range of partners including MI6 and GCHQ to disrupt these threats. Through our protective security arm, we provide advice and guidance to government, businesses, and other organisations about how to keep themselves safe. A role in MI5 means you'll do unique and challenging work in a supportive and encouraging environment, making a real difference to UK national security. The role Technology sits at the heart of everything we do at MI5. We're looking for people with hands on experience with data engineering: at its core designing and managing data pipelines and storage, be it in the extraction, transformation, integration or loading of multiple sources of data, to take on core roles within a multi disciplinary product team. As a data engineer, you will work alongside other engineering disciplines, product owners, business analysts, delivery managers and data scientists, to build and run secure data applications and data products. You'll use and promote Agile technical practices and methodologies to deliver digital products that are core to MI5's operation, making use of modern standards and approaches whilst using cloud technologies, as well as on premises platforms and long established technologies and frameworks. You'll gain experience in a fast paced environment as part of a forward thinking team and strive to develop elegant digital solutions. Managing tasks, you'll be responsible for the design and implementation of moderate to complex data flows, to connect operational systems, data for analytics, or business intelligence (BI) systems. Ensuring our customer's needs are represented at every stage, you'll support the products owned by the team, working with users to deliver new features, identify and fix defects and develop automated tests to maintain the assurance of our products. You'll frame problems and set priorities for yourself and your team, taking ownership of large problems, breaking them down and working with the team to deliver new features throughout the engineering lifecycle. As a Data Engineer, you'll focus on creating professional and comprehensive digital experiences and share a collective responsibility in keeping the country safe, by staying one step ahead in an evolving digital world. You'll help set the standard for what good looks like, sharing digital and innovative ways of working with the team and across the skills community. Importantly, you'll have a passion for sharing knowledge, whether it's a customer or colleague - you'll help them to understand what great engineering looks like. You'll also participate in our Communities of Practice, and encourage cross organisation initiatives to help build our community of engineers, whilst mentoring and developing junior members of the team. Our tech stacks vary between products using a range of databases including SQL and No SQL and commercial and custom built technologies. We embrace a DevSecOps (Development, Security and Operations) mindset, allowing our teams to automate, run and support what we build in a secure manner. Whether it's building a platform to enable the analysis of data systems to track the progress of our investigations, ingesting new complex partner data, developing robust and scalable capabilities for our Data Science teams, delivering compliance services to ensure we are operating legally, or tooling to improve our developer experience, the nature of our work presents unique and fascinating engineering challenges unique to MI5. About you You'll be able to communicate information clearly and effectively, influencing technical and non technical colleagues. You'll be able to define and shape problems while working with a wide range of stakeholders to meet customer needs. You'll look to build leadership qualities, supporting others to upskill and build their career in an inclusive environment, while continuously looking for opportunities to develop and learn new engineering practices and approaches. You'll be able to demonstrate a proficiency in developing data solutions and data integration designs. Crucially, you'll be comfortable learning and using a broad range of technologies whilst utilising modern approaches, such as the use of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), and use of cloud services. You'll have an awareness of good design patterns and how to implement them appropriately with security in mind, and demonstrate proficiency in working with an agile mindset. You'll have experience delivering moderate to complex data flows as part of a development team in collaboration with others. You'll be confident using data processing and integration technologies for example any of: AWS Glue, Fivetran, Airbyte, Apache NiFi, SAS DI Studio, Apache Spark or other equivalents. You can implement, deliver, and translate across common data models, for example across unstructured data, document formats, tabular and relational models, or formats to support geo enabled applications or graph database structures as well as knowledge using their equivalent differing data file formats for example JSON, XML, CSV, Parquet, Avro, etc. You can also understand how to manage metadata across your development teams systems and beyond, with a practical knowledge of tracking data provenance and data lineage. You'll work to agreed and recognised standards to build solutions using various traditional or big data languages such as: Python, Java, SQL, Scala, PL/SQL (Oracle), SAS Macro Language, etc. whilst using various data tools for example Jupyter, Hue (Hive/Impala), Kibana (Elastic Search), SageMaker (AWS), SAS for example. Training and development We're committed to developing our people and recognise this will look different for everyone. We use the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework as a compass to provide guidance and tools to support you, and which recognises and rewards specialist expertise. There'll be opportunities to gain qualifications and pursue specialist pathways, as well as undertaking tailored training, coaching, and mentoring. Individuals can also attend hackathons and have up to 20% innovation and personal development time. As you develop, grow, and maintain your technical skills, you can progress through the Government Digital and Data pay points. You'll need to regularly demonstrate and accredit your skills based on the framework. If you don't maintain the required skills, you'll be given the opportunity and support to rectify this, as you could revert to a lower level of capability and pay. Rewards and benefits You'll receive a starting salary of £66,332 dependent on skills, experience, and location plus other benefits including: 25 Days Annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays. opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme dedicated development budget interest free season ticket loan cycle to work scheme facilities such as a gym, restaurant, and on site coffee bars (at some locations) paid parental and adoption leave. Equal opportunities At MI5 diversity and inclusion is critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio economic backgrounds. We're Disability Confident MI5 is proud to have achieved Leader status within the Department for Work and Pensions' Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, we aim to ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants who best meet the essential minimum criteria for this position, will be offered an interview, if it is practical for us to do so. (This is known as the Offer of an Interview.) To secure an interview for this role, the minimum criteria (in order of application process) are: you will be required to reach the minimum pass mark for the Organisational Situational Judgement Test which looks at your ability to problem solve. If you meet this criteria, you will be directed to complete an application form able to demonstrate your ability in developing data solution (assessed at application form sift) can demonstrate an understanding of the principles of modern standards approaches such as continuous integration and delivery . click apply for full job details
20/05/2026
Full time
Salary: £66,332. This includes a £3,000 non-consolidated market rate supplement. There is also an opportunity to qualify for additional allowances and a skills-related payment under the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (formerly the Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) Profession Capability Framework.) Flexible Working: We offer a strong work life balance, supporting full time, part time, and flexible hours. You'll be predominantly office based, with working from home limited and subject to business need. About us MI5 keeps the country safe from serious threats like terrorism and attempts by states to harm the UK, its people and way of life. We carry out investigations by obtaining, analysing, and assessing intelligence, and then work with a range of partners including MI6 and GCHQ to disrupt these threats. Through our protective security arm, we provide advice and guidance to government, businesses, and other organisations about how to keep themselves safe. A role in MI5 means you'll do unique and challenging work in a supportive and encouraging environment, making a real difference to UK national security. The role Technology sits at the heart of everything we do at MI5. We're looking for people with hands on experience with data engineering: at its core designing and managing data pipelines and storage, be it in the extraction, transformation, integration or loading of multiple sources of data, to take on core roles within a multi disciplinary product team. As a data engineer, you will work alongside other engineering disciplines, product owners, business analysts, delivery managers and data scientists, to build and run secure data applications and data products. You'll use and promote Agile technical practices and methodologies to deliver digital products that are core to MI5's operation, making use of modern standards and approaches whilst using cloud technologies, as well as on premises platforms and long established technologies and frameworks. You'll gain experience in a fast paced environment as part of a forward thinking team and strive to develop elegant digital solutions. Managing tasks, you'll be responsible for the design and implementation of moderate to complex data flows, to connect operational systems, data for analytics, or business intelligence (BI) systems. Ensuring our customer's needs are represented at every stage, you'll support the products owned by the team, working with users to deliver new features, identify and fix defects and develop automated tests to maintain the assurance of our products. You'll frame problems and set priorities for yourself and your team, taking ownership of large problems, breaking them down and working with the team to deliver new features throughout the engineering lifecycle. As a Data Engineer, you'll focus on creating professional and comprehensive digital experiences and share a collective responsibility in keeping the country safe, by staying one step ahead in an evolving digital world. You'll help set the standard for what good looks like, sharing digital and innovative ways of working with the team and across the skills community. Importantly, you'll have a passion for sharing knowledge, whether it's a customer or colleague - you'll help them to understand what great engineering looks like. You'll also participate in our Communities of Practice, and encourage cross organisation initiatives to help build our community of engineers, whilst mentoring and developing junior members of the team. Our tech stacks vary between products using a range of databases including SQL and No SQL and commercial and custom built technologies. We embrace a DevSecOps (Development, Security and Operations) mindset, allowing our teams to automate, run and support what we build in a secure manner. Whether it's building a platform to enable the analysis of data systems to track the progress of our investigations, ingesting new complex partner data, developing robust and scalable capabilities for our Data Science teams, delivering compliance services to ensure we are operating legally, or tooling to improve our developer experience, the nature of our work presents unique and fascinating engineering challenges unique to MI5. About you You'll be able to communicate information clearly and effectively, influencing technical and non technical colleagues. You'll be able to define and shape problems while working with a wide range of stakeholders to meet customer needs. You'll look to build leadership qualities, supporting others to upskill and build their career in an inclusive environment, while continuously looking for opportunities to develop and learn new engineering practices and approaches. You'll be able to demonstrate a proficiency in developing data solutions and data integration designs. Crucially, you'll be comfortable learning and using a broad range of technologies whilst utilising modern approaches, such as the use of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), and use of cloud services. You'll have an awareness of good design patterns and how to implement them appropriately with security in mind, and demonstrate proficiency in working with an agile mindset. You'll have experience delivering moderate to complex data flows as part of a development team in collaboration with others. You'll be confident using data processing and integration technologies for example any of: AWS Glue, Fivetran, Airbyte, Apache NiFi, SAS DI Studio, Apache Spark or other equivalents. You can implement, deliver, and translate across common data models, for example across unstructured data, document formats, tabular and relational models, or formats to support geo enabled applications or graph database structures as well as knowledge using their equivalent differing data file formats for example JSON, XML, CSV, Parquet, Avro, etc. You can also understand how to manage metadata across your development teams systems and beyond, with a practical knowledge of tracking data provenance and data lineage. You'll work to agreed and recognised standards to build solutions using various traditional or big data languages such as: Python, Java, SQL, Scala, PL/SQL (Oracle), SAS Macro Language, etc. whilst using various data tools for example Jupyter, Hue (Hive/Impala), Kibana (Elastic Search), SageMaker (AWS), SAS for example. Training and development We're committed to developing our people and recognise this will look different for everyone. We use the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework as a compass to provide guidance and tools to support you, and which recognises and rewards specialist expertise. There'll be opportunities to gain qualifications and pursue specialist pathways, as well as undertaking tailored training, coaching, and mentoring. Individuals can also attend hackathons and have up to 20% innovation and personal development time. As you develop, grow, and maintain your technical skills, you can progress through the Government Digital and Data pay points. You'll need to regularly demonstrate and accredit your skills based on the framework. If you don't maintain the required skills, you'll be given the opportunity and support to rectify this, as you could revert to a lower level of capability and pay. Rewards and benefits You'll receive a starting salary of £66,332 dependent on skills, experience, and location plus other benefits including: 25 Days Annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays. opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme dedicated development budget interest free season ticket loan cycle to work scheme facilities such as a gym, restaurant, and on site coffee bars (at some locations) paid parental and adoption leave. Equal opportunities At MI5 diversity and inclusion is critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio economic backgrounds. We're Disability Confident MI5 is proud to have achieved Leader status within the Department for Work and Pensions' Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, we aim to ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants who best meet the essential minimum criteria for this position, will be offered an interview, if it is practical for us to do so. (This is known as the Offer of an Interview.) To secure an interview for this role, the minimum criteria (in order of application process) are: you will be required to reach the minimum pass mark for the Organisational Situational Judgement Test which looks at your ability to problem solve. If you meet this criteria, you will be directed to complete an application form able to demonstrate your ability in developing data solution (assessed at application form sift) can demonstrate an understanding of the principles of modern standards approaches such as continuous integration and delivery . click apply for full job details
Job Title: Senior UX Designer Location: Manchester (Hybrid - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote) Salary: From £42,000 Description Who we are: interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over500,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Purpose of the role: As a Senior User Experience Designer, you will play a critical role in creating exceptional digital experiences for our customers while driving the transformation of a traditional financial services business into a user-centric, design-led organization. This position is ideal for someone passionate about user-centered design, with the ability to lead projects, guide teams, and collaborate with stakeholders to align on shared goals. In this role, you will leverage your skills across research, strategy, and design execution to deliver innovative, accessible, and scalable solutions. You will also ensure the creation, maintenance, and evolution of our Design System to drive consistency and efficiency in our product offerings. UX Design Squad Leadership: Own the end-to-end user experience for squad projects, from ideation to final delivery, ensuring seamless, intuitive, and visually compelling designs. Design System : Play a key role in the adoption, evolution, and governance of the organisation's Design System to ensure consistency, scalability, and efficiency across all platforms and products. Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary UX representative in stakeholder meetings, building strong relationships with internal and external partners, aligning on goals, and managing expectations to ensure design solutions meet business and user needs. Communication and Presentation: Clearly articulate design concepts, strategies, and justifications through compelling visual presentations, storytelling, and persuasive communication tailored to diverse audiences, including executives, developers, and non-design stakeholders. Team Mentorship and Leadership: Mentor UX designers, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented culture within the design team. Provide constructive feedback, guidance, and support to ensure high-quality deliverables. User-Centered Research: Collaborate with UX researchers to work on qualitative and quantitative research, usability testing, and stakeholder workshops, translating insights into actionable design solutions. Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely and early with Product Managers, Product Owners, Developers, Analysts, and Testers to ensure alignment and cohesion between design, business objectives, and technical implementation. Accessibility and Usability Advocacy: Champion accessibility (e.g., WCAG compliance) and inclusive design principles, ensuring products are usable by all users, regardless of ability. Problem-Solving: Analyse complex user and business challenges, designing elegant solutions that meet user needs and align with organizational objectives. Responsive Design Expertise: Deliver designs optimised for multiple platforms, including responsive web, mobile applications, and emerging digital interfaces. Must Have: Proven Experience: Extensive experience as a Senior UX Designer, or readiness to step into a senior role, backed by a strong portfolio demonstrating your end-to-end design process, thought leadership, and outcomes. Design System Expertise: Hands-on experience of implementing, managing, and scaling design systems, ensuring consistency across products. Stakeholder Management Skills: Proven ability to engage with and influence stakeholders at all levels, building trust, managing expectations, and aligning diverse perspectives. Advanced Communication and Presentation Skills: Exceptional verbal, visual, and written communication skills to articulate design concepts, processes, and solutions clearly and persuasively to both technical and non-technical audiences. Collaboration and Teamwork: Experience working effectively with cross-functional teams in an Agile or Lean UX environment, balancing priorities and fostering a culture of alignment and collaboration. Research and Testing Skills: Proficient in conducting user research, usability testing, and synthesizing data to inform design decisions. Design Proficiency: Expertise in tools like Figma for creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs, with a strong understanding of user-centered design principles, usability, and accessibility standards. Problem-Solving Mindset: Ability to analyze complex challenges and deliver elegant, user-centered solutions that meet business and technical requirements. Attributes: Empathy and Advocacy: Act as the voice of the user, championing their needs and experiences at every stage of the design and development process. Mentorship: Ability to guide, mentor, and inspire team members while promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, and excellence. Adaptability: Thrive in dynamic environments with shifting priorities, applying a flexible approach to problem-solving. Visionary Thinking: Balance big-picture strategy with attention to detail, ensuring every design decision contributes to a cohesive and impactful user experience, based on research, insights and business needs. Passion for Learning: Stay ahead of emerging design trends, tools, and technologies to continuously elevate the team's expertise. Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan- 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Private Medical Insurance- Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund- Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts- Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits- Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive
20/05/2026
Full time
Job Title: Senior UX Designer Location: Manchester (Hybrid - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote) Salary: From £42,000 Description Who we are: interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over500,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Purpose of the role: As a Senior User Experience Designer, you will play a critical role in creating exceptional digital experiences for our customers while driving the transformation of a traditional financial services business into a user-centric, design-led organization. This position is ideal for someone passionate about user-centered design, with the ability to lead projects, guide teams, and collaborate with stakeholders to align on shared goals. In this role, you will leverage your skills across research, strategy, and design execution to deliver innovative, accessible, and scalable solutions. You will also ensure the creation, maintenance, and evolution of our Design System to drive consistency and efficiency in our product offerings. UX Design Squad Leadership: Own the end-to-end user experience for squad projects, from ideation to final delivery, ensuring seamless, intuitive, and visually compelling designs. Design System : Play a key role in the adoption, evolution, and governance of the organisation's Design System to ensure consistency, scalability, and efficiency across all platforms and products. Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary UX representative in stakeholder meetings, building strong relationships with internal and external partners, aligning on goals, and managing expectations to ensure design solutions meet business and user needs. Communication and Presentation: Clearly articulate design concepts, strategies, and justifications through compelling visual presentations, storytelling, and persuasive communication tailored to diverse audiences, including executives, developers, and non-design stakeholders. Team Mentorship and Leadership: Mentor UX designers, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented culture within the design team. Provide constructive feedback, guidance, and support to ensure high-quality deliverables. User-Centered Research: Collaborate with UX researchers to work on qualitative and quantitative research, usability testing, and stakeholder workshops, translating insights into actionable design solutions. Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely and early with Product Managers, Product Owners, Developers, Analysts, and Testers to ensure alignment and cohesion between design, business objectives, and technical implementation. Accessibility and Usability Advocacy: Champion accessibility (e.g., WCAG compliance) and inclusive design principles, ensuring products are usable by all users, regardless of ability. Problem-Solving: Analyse complex user and business challenges, designing elegant solutions that meet user needs and align with organizational objectives. Responsive Design Expertise: Deliver designs optimised for multiple platforms, including responsive web, mobile applications, and emerging digital interfaces. Must Have: Proven Experience: Extensive experience as a Senior UX Designer, or readiness to step into a senior role, backed by a strong portfolio demonstrating your end-to-end design process, thought leadership, and outcomes. Design System Expertise: Hands-on experience of implementing, managing, and scaling design systems, ensuring consistency across products. Stakeholder Management Skills: Proven ability to engage with and influence stakeholders at all levels, building trust, managing expectations, and aligning diverse perspectives. Advanced Communication and Presentation Skills: Exceptional verbal, visual, and written communication skills to articulate design concepts, processes, and solutions clearly and persuasively to both technical and non-technical audiences. Collaboration and Teamwork: Experience working effectively with cross-functional teams in an Agile or Lean UX environment, balancing priorities and fostering a culture of alignment and collaboration. Research and Testing Skills: Proficient in conducting user research, usability testing, and synthesizing data to inform design decisions. Design Proficiency: Expertise in tools like Figma for creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs, with a strong understanding of user-centered design principles, usability, and accessibility standards. Problem-Solving Mindset: Ability to analyze complex challenges and deliver elegant, user-centered solutions that meet business and technical requirements. Attributes: Empathy and Advocacy: Act as the voice of the user, championing their needs and experiences at every stage of the design and development process. Mentorship: Ability to guide, mentor, and inspire team members while promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, and excellence. Adaptability: Thrive in dynamic environments with shifting priorities, applying a flexible approach to problem-solving. Visionary Thinking: Balance big-picture strategy with attention to detail, ensuring every design decision contributes to a cohesive and impactful user experience, based on research, insights and business needs. Passion for Learning: Stay ahead of emerging design trends, tools, and technologies to continuously elevate the team's expertise. Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan- 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Private Medical Insurance- Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund- Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts- Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits- Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive
Job Title: BPA Data and Technical Analyst Contract Type: Permanent Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based The BPA Data and Technical Analyst role is a key position within the BPA Operations team, contributing to the Group's goal of building financial resilience and providing attractive returns on capital. This role involves the implementation of system automation for Bulk Purchase Annuity (BPA) business, covering activities from buy-in to buy-out. The successful candidate will work closely with various departments to enhance the company's digital presence and improve customer engagement. About the Role: Engage with the wider BPA function to interpret and triage pension scheme benefit specifications. Execute data onboarding routines onto the BPA Administration Platform efficiently. Configure benefit calculations within the BPA Administration Platform or oversee third-party configuration. Identify and deliver continuous improvement in data assurance procedures. Maintain and improve data and configuration models and processes. Ensure testing of data and calculation configuration aligns with industry best practices. Produce comprehensive and auditable documentation. Deliver required MI, reports, feeds, and data flow. Act as a subject matter expert in external meetings. Mentor junior analysts. About You: Good understanding of defined benefit pensions calculations and current legislation. Experience with implementing complex spreadsheet-based calculations. Ability to manage, query, and manipulate large data sets. Understanding of the testing lifecycle and comfortable leading testing of automation. Financial background or numerically literate. Experience managing senior stakeholders and working towards deadlines. Collaborative approach and willingness to support a wide range of activities. Continuous improvement mindset and proactive approach to embedding processes. Strong communication and interpersonal skills. About Royal London We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services. Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits Inclusion, diversity and belonging We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.
15/05/2026
Full time
Job Title: BPA Data and Technical Analyst Contract Type: Permanent Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based The BPA Data and Technical Analyst role is a key position within the BPA Operations team, contributing to the Group's goal of building financial resilience and providing attractive returns on capital. This role involves the implementation of system automation for Bulk Purchase Annuity (BPA) business, covering activities from buy-in to buy-out. The successful candidate will work closely with various departments to enhance the company's digital presence and improve customer engagement. About the Role: Engage with the wider BPA function to interpret and triage pension scheme benefit specifications. Execute data onboarding routines onto the BPA Administration Platform efficiently. Configure benefit calculations within the BPA Administration Platform or oversee third-party configuration. Identify and deliver continuous improvement in data assurance procedures. Maintain and improve data and configuration models and processes. Ensure testing of data and calculation configuration aligns with industry best practices. Produce comprehensive and auditable documentation. Deliver required MI, reports, feeds, and data flow. Act as a subject matter expert in external meetings. Mentor junior analysts. About You: Good understanding of defined benefit pensions calculations and current legislation. Experience with implementing complex spreadsheet-based calculations. Ability to manage, query, and manipulate large data sets. Understanding of the testing lifecycle and comfortable leading testing of automation. Financial background or numerically literate. Experience managing senior stakeholders and working towards deadlines. Collaborative approach and willingness to support a wide range of activities. Continuous improvement mindset and proactive approach to embedding processes. Strong communication and interpersonal skills. About Royal London We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services. Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits Inclusion, diversity and belonging We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.
Royal London is hiring a BPA Data and Technical Analyst to join their BPA Operations team. This key role focuses on implementing system automation for Bulk Purchase Annuity business, improving customer engagement, and data assurance procedures. Responsibilities include configuring calculations and mentoring analysts. Ideal candidates have a strong understanding of defined benefit pensions, experience with complex calculations, and excellent stakeholder management skills. The position offers a hybrid work model and a range of attractive benefits including medical insurance and an employer matching pension scheme.
15/05/2026
Full time
Royal London is hiring a BPA Data and Technical Analyst to join their BPA Operations team. This key role focuses on implementing system automation for Bulk Purchase Annuity business, improving customer engagement, and data assurance procedures. Responsibilities include configuring calculations and mentoring analysts. Ideal candidates have a strong understanding of defined benefit pensions, experience with complex calculations, and excellent stakeholder management skills. The position offers a hybrid work model and a range of attractive benefits including medical insurance and an employer matching pension scheme.
Job Title: Senior UX Designer Location: Manchester (Hybrid - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote) Salary: From £42,000 Description Who we are: interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over500,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Purpose of the role: As a Senior User Experience Designer, you will play a critical role in creating exceptional digital experiences for our customers while driving the transformation of a traditional financial services business into a user-centric, design-led organization. This position is ideal for someone passionate about user-centered design, with the ability to lead projects, guide teams, and collaborate with stakeholders to align on shared goals. In this role, you will leverage your skills across research, strategy, and design execution to deliver innovative, accessible, and scalable solutions. You will also ensure the creation, maintenance, and evolution of our Design System to drive consistency and efficiency in our product offerings. UX Design Squad Leadership: Own the end-to-end user experience for squad projects, from ideation to final delivery, ensuring seamless, intuitive, and visually compelling designs. Design System : Play a key role in the adoption, evolution, and governance of the organisation's Design System to ensure consistency, scalability, and efficiency across all platforms and products. Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary UX representative in stakeholder meetings, building strong relationships with internal and external partners, aligning on goals, and managing expectations to ensure design solutions meet business and user needs. Communication and Presentation: Clearly articulate design concepts, strategies, and justifications through compelling visual presentations, storytelling, and persuasive communication tailored to diverse audiences, including executives, developers, and non-design stakeholders. Team Mentorship and Leadership: Mentor UX designers, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented culture within the design team. Provide constructive feedback, guidance, and support to ensure high-quality deliverables. User-Centered Research: Collaborate with UX researchers to work on qualitative and quantitative research, usability testing, and stakeholder workshops, translating insights into actionable design solutions. Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely and early with Product Managers, Product Owners, Developers, Analysts, and Testers to ensure alignment and cohesion between design, business objectives, and technical implementation. Accessibility and Usability Advocacy: Champion accessibility (e.g., WCAG compliance) and inclusive design principles, ensuring products are usable by all users, regardless of ability. Problem-Solving: Analyse complex user and business challenges, designing elegant solutions that meet user needs and align with organizational objectives. Responsive Design Expertise: Deliver designs optimised for multiple platforms, including responsive web, mobile applications, and emerging digital interfaces. Must Have: Proven Experience: Extensive experience as a Senior UX Designer, or readiness to step into a senior role, backed by a strong portfolio demonstrating your end-to-end design process, thought leadership, and outcomes. Design System Expertise: Hands-on experience of implementing, managing, and scaling design systems, ensuring consistency across products. Stakeholder Management Skills: Proven ability to engage with and influence stakeholders at all levels, building trust, managing expectations, and aligning diverse perspectives. Advanced Communication and Presentation Skills: Exceptional verbal, visual, and written communication skills to articulate design concepts, processes, and solutions clearly and persuasively to both technical and non-technical audiences. Collaboration and Teamwork: Experience working effectively with cross-functional teams in an Agile or Lean UX environment, balancing priorities and fostering a culture of alignment and collaboration. Research and Testing Skills: Proficient in conducting user research, usability testing, and synthesizing data to inform design decisions. Design Proficiency: Expertise in tools like Figma for creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs, with a strong understanding of user-centered design principles, usability, and accessibility standards. Problem-Solving Mindset: Ability to analyze complex challenges and deliver elegant, user-centered solutions that meet business and technical requirements. Attributes: Empathy and Advocacy: Act as the voice of the user, championing their needs and experiences at every stage of the design and development process. Mentorship: Ability to guide, mentor, and inspire team members while promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, and excellence. Adaptability: Thrive in dynamic environments with shifting priorities, applying a flexible approach to problem-solving. Visionary Thinking: Balance big-picture strategy with attention to detail, ensuring every design decision contributes to a cohesive and impactful user experience, based on research, insights and business needs. Passion for Learning: Stay ahead of emerging design trends, tools, and technologies to continuously elevate the team's expertise. Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan- 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Private Medical Insurance- Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund- Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts- Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits- Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive
15/05/2026
Full time
Job Title: Senior UX Designer Location: Manchester (Hybrid - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote) Salary: From £42,000 Description Who we are: interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over500,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Purpose of the role: As a Senior User Experience Designer, you will play a critical role in creating exceptional digital experiences for our customers while driving the transformation of a traditional financial services business into a user-centric, design-led organization. This position is ideal for someone passionate about user-centered design, with the ability to lead projects, guide teams, and collaborate with stakeholders to align on shared goals. In this role, you will leverage your skills across research, strategy, and design execution to deliver innovative, accessible, and scalable solutions. You will also ensure the creation, maintenance, and evolution of our Design System to drive consistency and efficiency in our product offerings. UX Design Squad Leadership: Own the end-to-end user experience for squad projects, from ideation to final delivery, ensuring seamless, intuitive, and visually compelling designs. Design System : Play a key role in the adoption, evolution, and governance of the organisation's Design System to ensure consistency, scalability, and efficiency across all platforms and products. Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary UX representative in stakeholder meetings, building strong relationships with internal and external partners, aligning on goals, and managing expectations to ensure design solutions meet business and user needs. Communication and Presentation: Clearly articulate design concepts, strategies, and justifications through compelling visual presentations, storytelling, and persuasive communication tailored to diverse audiences, including executives, developers, and non-design stakeholders. Team Mentorship and Leadership: Mentor UX designers, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented culture within the design team. Provide constructive feedback, guidance, and support to ensure high-quality deliverables. User-Centered Research: Collaborate with UX researchers to work on qualitative and quantitative research, usability testing, and stakeholder workshops, translating insights into actionable design solutions. Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely and early with Product Managers, Product Owners, Developers, Analysts, and Testers to ensure alignment and cohesion between design, business objectives, and technical implementation. Accessibility and Usability Advocacy: Champion accessibility (e.g., WCAG compliance) and inclusive design principles, ensuring products are usable by all users, regardless of ability. Problem-Solving: Analyse complex user and business challenges, designing elegant solutions that meet user needs and align with organizational objectives. Responsive Design Expertise: Deliver designs optimised for multiple platforms, including responsive web, mobile applications, and emerging digital interfaces. Must Have: Proven Experience: Extensive experience as a Senior UX Designer, or readiness to step into a senior role, backed by a strong portfolio demonstrating your end-to-end design process, thought leadership, and outcomes. Design System Expertise: Hands-on experience of implementing, managing, and scaling design systems, ensuring consistency across products. Stakeholder Management Skills: Proven ability to engage with and influence stakeholders at all levels, building trust, managing expectations, and aligning diverse perspectives. Advanced Communication and Presentation Skills: Exceptional verbal, visual, and written communication skills to articulate design concepts, processes, and solutions clearly and persuasively to both technical and non-technical audiences. Collaboration and Teamwork: Experience working effectively with cross-functional teams in an Agile or Lean UX environment, balancing priorities and fostering a culture of alignment and collaboration. Research and Testing Skills: Proficient in conducting user research, usability testing, and synthesizing data to inform design decisions. Design Proficiency: Expertise in tools like Figma for creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs, with a strong understanding of user-centered design principles, usability, and accessibility standards. Problem-Solving Mindset: Ability to analyze complex challenges and deliver elegant, user-centered solutions that meet business and technical requirements. Attributes: Empathy and Advocacy: Act as the voice of the user, championing their needs and experiences at every stage of the design and development process. Mentorship: Ability to guide, mentor, and inspire team members while promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, and excellence. Adaptability: Thrive in dynamic environments with shifting priorities, applying a flexible approach to problem-solving. Visionary Thinking: Balance big-picture strategy with attention to detail, ensuring every design decision contributes to a cohesive and impactful user experience, based on research, insights and business needs. Passion for Learning: Stay ahead of emerging design trends, tools, and technologies to continuously elevate the team's expertise. Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan- 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Private Medical Insurance- Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund- Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts- Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits- Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive
Title: Agile Release MAnager Location: Hybrid - 3 days a week in Manchester Salary: From: £55,000 interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £80 billion and over 500,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Purpose Of Role Reporting to the Senior Scrum Master, the Agile Release Engineer is responsible for supporting all activities required to ensure oversight, management and control of squad-based releases through development, QA and live. Working closely with the Senior Scrum Master, and the delivery team (including but not limited to Engineering Managers, Programme Managers, Project Managers, Product Managers, QA managers and Scrum Masters) the Agile Release Engineer will support the planning of ii's release schedule across assigned technologies, managing inter-dependencies both from a technical perspective but also business readiness. The focus of this role is delivery of change through agile CI/CD pipeline delivery, but also works closely with the Service Management Analyst and Implementation Coordinator to ensure alignment and coordination across the entire portfolio. Key Responsibilities As directed by the Senior Scrum Master, work with Project Managers, Product Managers and Scrum Masters to support the management of ii's Agile release schedule across Programmes, Projects, Agile Delivery Squads and Infrastructure Teams. Support the identification and management of interdependencies or risks between all release types and the overall change pipeline, ensuring appropriate communication, reporting and control including escalation to the Senior Scrum Master as required. Support the identification and management of squad change concentration risk through ensuring the volume of change impacting different customer segments and internal departments over given periods of time is acceptable and consumable. Understand end enforce ii's change and release control standards and policies, ensuring that while change is released safely, it is also done in a pragmatic way that doesn't stifle our rate of change and is within the company risk appetite As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, pro-actively manage ii's CI/CD development and test environments working with technical teams to establish best practice, address BAU issues and ensure optimal availability to support the change delivery life cycle. As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, work with each technology team to manage the CI/CD pipelines through the identification and management of deployment backlog, risks and dependencies. As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, co-ordinate regular deployments of ii's mobile applications across agile delivery squads. As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, support implementation management where a change or series of changes touches on multiple platforms with a number of both technical and non-technical teams involved. Contribute to the establishment and management of best practice release management processes, tools, standards and reports Contribute to the establishment of improved processes to enhance release delivery quality and to improve visibility/performance across the portfolio of projects/activities. Contribute to a knowledge management platform and library structure to create, store, and share best practices and documentation from releases. Ensure timely notification of issues/problems and make recommendations for resolution to release & project teams and resolve and/or elevate testing issues where required. Contribute towards a release repository and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists. Continuously enhance knowledge/expertise in own area and keep current with trends/developments and develop expertise in ii services, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools and techniques that can contribute to effective change delivery. Support any Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews as required. Contribute to the clear and available reporting on test environment use for agile delivery, including details of any project or workstream actively using any environment. Additionally, this includes ensuring details of code/build versions are also clearly evidenced and available to view at any time. For any test environment issues logged - working with own team, Product Analysts, IT Support areas, Development and QA testing to triage, resolve, retest and close issues in a timely manner - helping to maintain test environments as fit for purpose. This also includes being able to provide clear reporting on issues as required. Skills & Experience Required Planning and Release Management Hands-on experience with Agile/adaptive delivery models, ideally in large, complex environments. Proven knowledge of Scrum and Kanban delivery gained from experience working in and agile environment Knowledge of SAFe and implementation of agile release trains and managing release schedules across multiple squads. Ability to apply strategic improvements to process remove/manage risks and introduce efficiencies to ways of working Excellent Communicate skills at all levels of the organisation Work to tight deadlines, elevate and prioritise workloads where required Confidently deliver information to mixed audiences Conflict resolution, with the ability to successfully negotiate and influence. Stakeholder Management to senior levels Good working knowledge of MS Word and MS Excel, MS Project preferred but not essential Strong understanding and experience working with workflow collaboration tools such as Jira or Confluence Knowledge of the Financial Services industry Good understanding of technology and systems architecture Excellent understanding of development lifecycle, specifically CI/CD An understanding of release and project delivery lifecycles Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan- 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life AssuranceandGroup Income Protection Private Medical Insurance- Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund- Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts- Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits- Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle Equal Opportunity interactive investor operates in accordance with the UKEqualityAct2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive
13/05/2026
Full time
Title: Agile Release MAnager Location: Hybrid - 3 days a week in Manchester Salary: From: £55,000 interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £80 billion and over 500,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Purpose Of Role Reporting to the Senior Scrum Master, the Agile Release Engineer is responsible for supporting all activities required to ensure oversight, management and control of squad-based releases through development, QA and live. Working closely with the Senior Scrum Master, and the delivery team (including but not limited to Engineering Managers, Programme Managers, Project Managers, Product Managers, QA managers and Scrum Masters) the Agile Release Engineer will support the planning of ii's release schedule across assigned technologies, managing inter-dependencies both from a technical perspective but also business readiness. The focus of this role is delivery of change through agile CI/CD pipeline delivery, but also works closely with the Service Management Analyst and Implementation Coordinator to ensure alignment and coordination across the entire portfolio. Key Responsibilities As directed by the Senior Scrum Master, work with Project Managers, Product Managers and Scrum Masters to support the management of ii's Agile release schedule across Programmes, Projects, Agile Delivery Squads and Infrastructure Teams. Support the identification and management of interdependencies or risks between all release types and the overall change pipeline, ensuring appropriate communication, reporting and control including escalation to the Senior Scrum Master as required. Support the identification and management of squad change concentration risk through ensuring the volume of change impacting different customer segments and internal departments over given periods of time is acceptable and consumable. Understand end enforce ii's change and release control standards and policies, ensuring that while change is released safely, it is also done in a pragmatic way that doesn't stifle our rate of change and is within the company risk appetite As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, pro-actively manage ii's CI/CD development and test environments working with technical teams to establish best practice, address BAU issues and ensure optimal availability to support the change delivery life cycle. As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, work with each technology team to manage the CI/CD pipelines through the identification and management of deployment backlog, risks and dependencies. As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, co-ordinate regular deployments of ii's mobile applications across agile delivery squads. As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, support implementation management where a change or series of changes touches on multiple platforms with a number of both technical and non-technical teams involved. Contribute to the establishment and management of best practice release management processes, tools, standards and reports Contribute to the establishment of improved processes to enhance release delivery quality and to improve visibility/performance across the portfolio of projects/activities. Contribute to a knowledge management platform and library structure to create, store, and share best practices and documentation from releases. Ensure timely notification of issues/problems and make recommendations for resolution to release & project teams and resolve and/or elevate testing issues where required. Contribute towards a release repository and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists. Continuously enhance knowledge/expertise in own area and keep current with trends/developments and develop expertise in ii services, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools and techniques that can contribute to effective change delivery. Support any Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews as required. Contribute to the clear and available reporting on test environment use for agile delivery, including details of any project or workstream actively using any environment. Additionally, this includes ensuring details of code/build versions are also clearly evidenced and available to view at any time. For any test environment issues logged - working with own team, Product Analysts, IT Support areas, Development and QA testing to triage, resolve, retest and close issues in a timely manner - helping to maintain test environments as fit for purpose. This also includes being able to provide clear reporting on issues as required. Skills & Experience Required Planning and Release Management Hands-on experience with Agile/adaptive delivery models, ideally in large, complex environments. Proven knowledge of Scrum and Kanban delivery gained from experience working in and agile environment Knowledge of SAFe and implementation of agile release trains and managing release schedules across multiple squads. Ability to apply strategic improvements to process remove/manage risks and introduce efficiencies to ways of working Excellent Communicate skills at all levels of the organisation Work to tight deadlines, elevate and prioritise workloads where required Confidently deliver information to mixed audiences Conflict resolution, with the ability to successfully negotiate and influence. Stakeholder Management to senior levels Good working knowledge of MS Word and MS Excel, MS Project preferred but not essential Strong understanding and experience working with workflow collaboration tools such as Jira or Confluence Knowledge of the Financial Services industry Good understanding of technology and systems architecture Excellent understanding of development lifecycle, specifically CI/CD An understanding of release and project delivery lifecycles Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan- 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life AssuranceandGroup Income Protection Private Medical Insurance- Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund- Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts- Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits- Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle Equal Opportunity interactive investor operates in accordance with the UKEqualityAct2010. 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