Analyst Programmer

Aegon UK
Cambridgeshire
1 month ago
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Location:Peterborough (We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time)

Salary:A competitive salary from £35,120 - £52,680, depending on the experience you can bring

Closing date:22nd March 2025

We're a company of ambitious, collaborative, problem-solvers who get things done. Our mission is to help people achieve a lifetime of financial security, and we're investing in innovation that can make people's finances work harder. From a Digital Experience that gives one-stop access to a universe of investment opportunity - to retirement products that make wealth planning simple, easy and fulfilling - we're dedicated to getting people closer to their financial goals every day.

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.

Technology is at the centre of our organisation, it's pivotal to the way we do business every day and achieving our mission. Our technology organisation is transforming; we want to change how we work, improve our technology architecture incrementally, be better at engineering, build out our data capability and drive innovation.

Our software is evolving to distributed re-usable services, low code workflow platforms, use of our data platform, underpinned by a domain-based Headless API architecture and migration to the cloud. It's an exciting time that will suit people who love to be challenged and can help us evolve our patterns. You will work collaboratively with Solutions Architects, Data Engineers, DevOps, and Test Engineers. If you know these topics, or can learn fast, we want to hear from you.

As an Analyst Programmer, you will:

  1. Work closely with several other developers to support, maintain, and enhance AEGON's Technology portfolio in accordance with defined development tools/methodologies
  2. Work within a Feature Team, attend the relevant ceremonies assigned to your role and carry out items of work within each Sprint
  3. Support prioritisation of project, support and development activities and be an active participant in product backlog refinement
  4. Plan and document solution architecture
  5. Support analysts and users performing System and User Acceptance Testing
  6. Work with the team to help develop deployment and resource plans with change management
  7. Work towards being a subject matter expert in a subset of their technology solutions

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

  1. Experience working in a commercial development team environment
  2. Experience of working with Windows, Web and Service based C# .NET Solutions
  3. Good SQL understanding
  4. Experience with Service Oriented Architectures and associated design patterns
  5. An understanding of both on-premise and cloud software environments
  6. Good communication and presentation skills (written and verbal)
  7. Extremely motivated and ability to operate in a fast-paced environment
  8. Familiarity with UK Defined Contribution Pensions would be beneficial
  9. Foundation in SDLC methodologies and experience working on large-scale IT projects
  10. Oracle database experience desirable but not essential

What's in it for you?

  1. A non-contributory pension between 8%-12%
  2. A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance
  3. 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 staff live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme and online GP appointments.

This is a big job. It's a challenging job. It's crucial to our future success. If you're up for the challenge, hit the Apply button.

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.

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