Senior Infrastructure Engineer

  • Schroders Personal Wealth
  • Nov 04, 2021
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

Could you help us achieve our ambition to be a Digital Leader for the significantly changing financial services industry?

Could you help us build our business as we endeavour to shape the future of Financial Planning?

The role

The Infrastructure and Technical Operations function is responsible for the development and support of infrastructure, client environment, collaboration technologies and telephony for Schroders Personal Wealth. Key to our success is our new modern digital workplace proposition and we are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with experience to assist with its development.

What you'll be doing

Our engineers are hands on and working as part of a small engineering team developing and implementing the components that will make up the overall proposition.

  • Undertaking and in some cases leading activities to transform business requirements and specifications into capabilities and exploring infrastructure delivery options, developing design ideas as you go.
  • Interacting with both business colleagues and external suppliers to develop and support infrastructure solutions across the organisation.
  • Developing solutions to time and quality standards against the requirements of the business.
  • Participating in cross organisational squads to develop capabilities and gain advocacy for your solutions through building effective working relationships.
  • Discussing solutions with business customers, technical subject matter experts and vendors, to agree, develop and deliver solutions in a truly collaborative set up.

Your qualifications & experience

Whilst skills, knowledge and prior experience are meaningful to us we want people who are highly motivated with an inquisitive approach to work and a willingness to challenge the status quo.

We're also a people business and to support these huge technical endeavours you'll need to use a range of interpersonal skills and take a collaborative approach.

  • Experience of participating in cross disciplined technical teams.
  • Experience of working with 3rd party technical suppliers and co-ordinating development and support activities with their technical teams.
  • Strong stakeholder management with the ability to advocate change and influence technical direction.
  • The ability to self-start and organise personal workload.

We will be looking for technical experience in any of the following:

  • Collaboration & Unified Comms (Voice, Video, SharePoint, Email)
  • MS365 Product Suite (Previously Office 365 - Including but not limited to MS Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business)
  • Device, Application & Data Management (Intune, Windows 10 Management)
  • Office Engineering (Telemetry, Add On management & governance)
  • MS365 Security Tooling
  • Azure Active Directory
  • Networking technologies including WAN, LAN and WiFi
  • Process Automation, scripting / coding (Including but not limited to PowerShell, Power Platform, GraphAPI, JSON)
  • Jira and Confluence toolsets

You belong here

At Schroders Personal Wealth, we welcome all. All colours, cultures, genders, beliefs, religions, ages, people.

We depend on the unique approaches of our team members to help us meet our ambitions.

We are committed to increasing diversity across our team and ensuring that Schroders Personal Wealth is a place where people from all backgrounds can make an impact and reach their potential.

Work in a way that works for you

When it comes to flexible working, we'll do our best to accommodate your needs with our flexible working policy. Please enquire in your interview.

What we'll give you

You can expect a career that's full of opportunity and support to help you develop. We offer a competitive total reward package, which means you share in the success you help create.

  • A market leading defined contribution pension scheme.
  • An additional 4% of your annual salary in a Flexible benefits package that you can select and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction or take as cash.
  • 25 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays.
  • An incentive scheme, based on the company's performance and your contribution to it.

About us

Schroders Personal Wealth combines over 400 years of expertise from Lloyds Banking Group and Schroders plc, two leading British companies partnering to bring financial planning services to more people in the UK.

Our focus is on the personal relationship we develop with our customers, underpinned by leading edge technology, multi-channel customer reach and global investment expertise.

We have built a green field infrastructure environment for Schroders Personal Wealth through a number of strategic transformational initiatives including the provision of a new fully cloud based digital environment.

We aim to become a top UK financial planning business within five years. Would you like to be part of making this possible

Join us

Does this sound like a role that you'd like to know more about? If like us, you're more motivated by customers than by targets, and you'd thrive in a culture that is values and client led - then we'd love to hear from you.