Job Description
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Park (Wilmslow) or Glasgow
Working Style: Hybrid - 50% from home / 50% office based
We’re investing in our Digital Engineering capability and are looking for three Technical Specialists to help shape the future of our customer and colleague-facing technology. These newly created roles will provide deep technical expertise across multiple teams, helping solve complex challenges, guide best practice and influence future technology direction. You’ll join as a specialist in one of the following areas: Mobile Development, Web Development, or Authentication and Authorisation. You’ll work across a broad portfolio of services, including mobile applications, web portals, Identity and Access Management, Contact Centre services and emerging adviser experience platforms.
About you:
We’re looking for collaborative technical experts who enjoy working across teams, building relationships and helping others solve complex engineering problems. You’ll be comfortable providing consultancy and guidance, influencing stakeholders and translating technical concepts for different audiences. You may already be operating at this level, or you may be ready to step into a broader role where you can have more influence across platforms, standards and engineering practices.
What you’ll be doing:
As a Technical Specialist, you’ll use your expertise to support teams across Digital Engineering, helping shape technical decisions and strengthen capability across the function.
Provide deep technical expertise in your specialist area.
Support multiple engineering teams across Digital.
Help shape technology strategy, standards and roadmap decisions.
Promote best practice, reusable patterns and consistent approaches.
Provide consultancy and design support for complex technical challenges.
Coach and upskill colleagues to build technical capability.
Stay close to emerging technology trends, standards and industry developments.
What we’re looking for
Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to work independently and quickly understand unfamiliar codebases.
Experience explaining technical concepts clearly to different audiences.
Knowledge of relevant architectural patterns within your technical domain.
Experience applying accessibility standards.
Confidence working across multiple teams and managing changing priorities.
A relationship-led approach, with the ability to influence and support colleagues across Digital.
Specialist experience:
Mobile Development: Expert-level Kotlin or Swift skills, with experience in the alternative language. React Native experience would be highly desirable.
Web Development: Expert-level HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Angular and TypeScript experience would be highly desirable.
Authentication and Authorisation: Expert knowledge of OAuth2.0, OIDC and authentication concepts. Experience integrating authentication flows into mobile and web applications would be highly desirable.
What’s in it for you?
This is an opportunity to move into a high-impact technical role where your expertise will influence multiple teams, platforms and future technology decisions. You’ll help shape engineering standards, support business-critical services and play an important part in our continued investment in Digital Engineering. Financial services experience is not essential. We’re more interested in your technical depth, curiosity and ability to collaborate across teams.
If you feel you’d be a great fit for Royal London but don’t meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Research shows some candidates are less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of the criteria - if you meet most requirements and are keen to learn, we encourage you to apply!
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.
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Royal London is a purpose-driven mutual. Our Purpose, ‘Protecting today, investing in tomorrow. Together we are mutually responsible’, defines the impact we want to have. It shapes what we do on behalf of our members and customers, financial advisers, our colleagues and the communities in which we operate. Our People Promise is our collective commitment that our workplace will be inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling where all colleagues can thrive and experience a sense of belonging. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
Our inclusive values and people promise are core to who we are and how we work. It’s good for our people, and good for our customers too, because with an inclusive workplace and a diverse workforce we will reflect our members, customers and communities to deliver the best outcomes.
We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across our organisation. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected– whatever their background.
Workplace Initiatives
Program for parents returning to work after Parental Leave? |
No |
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 (followed by 13 weeks half pay) |
Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary: |
4 weeks |
Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
Gender pay gap reporting information 2022: |
|
Mean pay gap: |
35.3% |
Median pay gap: |
33.9% |
Mean bonus gap: |
70.4% |
Median bonus gap: |
48.5% |
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? |
No |
Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index? |
No |
Graduate Programmes
We have a number of graduate programmes designed to deliver technical experts and future leaders.
Royal London Career Confidence programme
Our hybrid programme focuses on equipping you to feel empowered in your career and supported to explore new opportunities as they arise.
Apprenticeships
We offer a wide range of Apprenticeships that are targeted at both new joiners and existing colleagues.
Inclusion
We promote an inclusive culture at Royal London and have a range of inclusion networks for our colleagues to get involved with.
Our Women's Network is a community that celebrates and supports its members, helps everyone to learn more and inspires all of us to aim higher. Confidence and development are strong themes here and our events focus on three key areas of team working, finance, and wellbeing. There are two sub-groups to the Women’s Network – Women in Technology and our Periods and Menopause Group – focused on actions such as supporting over 20 new Periods and Menopause champions and launching guidance and training for leaders.