Pega Lead Analyst Programmer
Permanent
Location: Edinburgh or Witham (typically 2 days in the office per week, 3 from home)
Salary: A competitive salary from £46,000 - £69,000 depending on the experience you can bring
Closing date: 13 November 2024
As a purpose-led business, we’re focused on supporting our customers as they navigate through new stages of their lives and all the moments that matter. We’re here for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it, however grad or humble their ambitions.
We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging.
A new opportunity has arisen for a Pega Lead Analyst Programmer to join our IT Digital Solutions Team.
In this role you will be responsible for leading the design, development and implementation of Pega applications within Aegon UK. You will collaborate with stakeholder both internally and externally to understand requirements and transfer this into technical solutions, ensuring high quality delivery of Pega projects.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Collaborating with colleagues and clients to investigate and model business functions, processes, information flows and data structures, using methodical and consistent techniques.
Investigation of operational requirements and problems, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in information systems
Implementation and maintenance of procedures and tools for the correct recording and progressing of requests for support. Ensuring that appropriate application support tools are available and staff are trained to use them.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
Excellent analysis skills, acquiring understanding of a problem or situation by breaking it down systematically into its component parts and identifying the relationships.
Tenacity and a proven track record of fulfilling agreements even when adverse circumstances prevail.
Excellent planning and organisational abilities
Expertise in Application Development Methods, Techniques and Standards
Proficient in the application of automated systems
Relevant IT Tools Experience including Jira, Confluence and Microsoft Office
Basic knowledge of Aegon UK products at a high level.
PEGA Certified System Architect Qualification
What’s in it for you?
A non-contributory pension between 8%-12%
A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance
34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)
We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.
The legal bits
We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Our story started over 190 years ago, right here in the UK. We were originally founded as Scottish Equitable, but today we’re part of Aegon.
We’re the UK’s largest investment platform, and we put financial wellbeing at the heart of our organisation. We work with customers, financial advisers and employers to provide pensions, savings and investment solutions.
As a purpose-led business, we're focused on supporting our customers as they navigate through new stages of their lives and all the moments that matter. We're here for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it, however grand or humble their ambitions.
Working at Aegon, you'll play an important part in helping achieve this.
Workplace Initiatives
Leadership development programmes? Yes
Mentoring programmes? Yes
Coaching programmes? Yes
Employee-led diversity networks? Yes
Internal women’s networking groups? Yes
Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage? Yes
No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary: 26 weeks
Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave: 26 weeks
No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary: 6 weeks
Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave: 26 weeks
Gender pay gap reporting information - 2023
Average pay gap: 21.83%
Median pay gap: 19.87%
Average bonus gap: 43.72%
Median bonus gap: 40.66%
Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter? Yes
Targets to raise the number of women in leadership? Yes
Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership? Yes
Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index? No
We offer various apprenticeships, internships, career ready placements and graduate programmes.