Lead Dynamics 365 & Power Platform Engineer

Overview

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

L&G Institutional Retirement looks after around 700,000 institutional customers who have their retirement benefits secured with us. Operating continuously in the UK market from our entrance in 1987, we are the UK’s longest-running insurer.

Our Institutional Retirement business is the UK’s longest-serving active bulk annuity provider.

Who we are

Institutional Retirement is the only insurer to have been operating continuously in the UK market from our entrance in 1987 to the present day. Our UK retirement annuity book stands at an estimated £86.1 billion at 31 December 2023.

Across our retail and institutional retirement businesses, we look after more than 1 million customers, around c.700,000 of whom are institutional customers who have had their retirement benefits secured with us.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Dynamics Platform Engineer to lead the design, development, and optimisation of solutions across Dynamics 365 and the Microsoft Power Platform. This role plays a critical part in delivering robust, scalable, and secure solutions that enable business transformation and support the organisation’s wider digital strategy.

With deep technical expertise and strong solution design capability, you will drive best‑practice delivery, champion governance and quality standards, and provide technical leadership across the platform team. You will work closely with architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to ensure solutions are aligned with strategic objectives and delivered to a high standard.

What you\'ll be doing:

• Designing, building, and maintaining high‑quality solutions using Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Dataverse
• Leading end‑to‑end solution delivery, from requirements gathering and architectural design through to deployment and ongoing operational support
• Developing and maintaining integrations with external systems, including standard and custom connectors, using approved best‑practice integration patterns
• Optimising and enhancing existing solutions to improve performance, usability, scalability, and long‑term maintainability
• Ensuring strong platform governance by applying environment strategy, naming conventions, solution structuring, and lifecycle management standards
• Implementing and overseeing role‑based security, data integrity controls, and compliance with internal policies and external regulatory requirements
• Acting as a senior technical escalation point, providing guidance, mentoring, and knowledge sharing across development and delivery teams
• Driving continuous improvement through effective application lifecycle management (ALM) practices and the adoption of modern tooling, automation, and emerging capabilities such as AI‑enabled features and Microsoft Copilot

Who we’re looking for

• Extensive experience delivering enterprise‑scale solutions using the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365, supported by relevant Microsoft certifications
• Deep technical expertise across Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse, and Dynamics 365, with strong configuration, customisation, and integration skills
• A proven track record of designing and delivering end‑to‑end solutions, from discovery and design through to deployment and operational support
• Strong understanding of modern integration approaches, including APIs, standard and custom connectors, and secure, scalable integration patterns
• Advanced knowledge of application lifecycle management (ALM), environment strategy, and DevOps practices, including version control and CI/CD pipelines
• Solid understanding of data governance, data modelling, and security best practices to ensure compliant and responsible use of data
• Excellent problem‑solving and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non‑technical audiences
• Experience working within agile delivery environments, collaborating with cross‑functional teams and leveraging modern capabilities such as AI‑enabled automation and Microsoft Copilot

Benefits

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance‑related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand‑new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience

Additional Information

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.

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