Jobs at Standard Life

Lead the Pensions & Savings AI and Automation Engineering practice, defining technical strategy, delivery standards, operating models, roadmaps, and talent development. Build reusable AI agent and automation platforms, establish secure lifecycle controls, and guide solutions from experimentation into production. Partner with product, business, technology, data, risk, and enterprise AI teams to deliver measurable value. Provide hands-on technical leadership, oversee suppliers and investment, and build an inclusive, high-performing engineering organization.

Lead the design, operation, and continuous improvement of secure internal developer platforms for Pensions and Savings technology services. Build golden paths, automated onboarding journeys, reusable workflows, and self-service capabilities using GitHub, GitHub Actions, infrastructure as code, and scripting. Manage developer tooling, artifacts, containers, observability, security, governance, and cloud integrations while partnering with application, architecture, security, risk, and operations teams.

Oversee outsourced custody services and related investment operations, ensuring effective governance, controls, risk management, regulatory compliance, and service delivery. The role involves analyzing reports and performance trends, investigating and escalating issues, supporting custody-related system and process changes, testing implementations, documenting activities, and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and control effectiveness while collaborating with custodians, service providers, and internal stakeholders.

Analyze individual annuity pricing performance, competitiveness, market trends, customer value, and profitability. Produce pricing MI, calculations, recommendations, and commercial insights; implement controlled pricing changes; support pricing assumptions, tools, and product development for Lifetime and Fixed-Term Annuities. Collaborate across teams while applying actuarial expertise, regulatory knowledge, and quantitative analysis to improve pricing decisions and business performance.

Lead the design, development, operation, and evolution of secure Amazon Connect platform services across voice and digital channels. Build AWS integrations, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, and CI/CD capabilities while ensuring security, resilience, observability, compliance, and cost control. Resolve complex telephony and routing issues, support legacy migrations, make technical decisions, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers.

Deliver a positive colleague experience across the full employee lifecycle, from onboarding through offboarding. Resolve complex colleague queries, manage people-operation journeys, implement process improvements, collaborate with providers and operational leaders, and ensure compliance with legal requirements and internal policies. The role requires strong communication, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and customer-service skills in a fast-paced hybrid environment.

Performs actuarial balance sheet and capital calculations under Solvency II and IFRS/GAAP, prepares regulatory reports, develops financial analysis and models, and provides technical advice to senior stakeholders. The role supports strategic projects, reviews actuarial results, communicates complex recommendations, manages internal and external relationships, and applies commercial judgment to insurance, risk, and business decisions.

Supports compensation cycles, bonus processes, benefits programs, reward governance, and reward-related projects. Performs advanced Excel analysis, modelling, scenario planning, and data validation to provide actionable insights and recommendations. Advises HR colleagues and stakeholders on pay, incentives, job evaluation, policies, and benefits while supporting communications, compliance, and continuous improvement activities.

Supports project and programme information integration, dependency tracking, risk and assumption management, resource planning, project cost forecasting, invoice and accrual processing, and delivery reporting. The role maintains governance controls, RAID logs, milestones, budgets, and performance dashboards while challenging data quality and escalating issues. It also prepares materials for steering groups and leadership forums and drives PMO process improvements across complex regulatory and CRM change programmes.

Supports Customer Operations through demand forecasting, capacity modeling, resource planning, reforecasting, scenario analysis, and operational risk management. The role develops plans for telephony, back-office, change activity, outsourced services, and peak demand; tracks forecast accuracy and variances; produces management information; and recommends staffing, deployment, prioritization, and mitigation actions. It requires strong analytical, numerical, stakeholder-management, communication, and Microsoft 365 skills.

Leads the Employee Relations and Colleague Wellbeing function, managing an ER team and improving case management, governance, controls, processes, and capacity planning. Develops proactive, evidence-led wellbeing strategies; oversees absence and health-related casework; influences senior stakeholders and staff representatives; and drives consistent, fair colleague experiences through operational improvement and change leadership.

Supports the Senior Social Media Lead with planning, creating, analyzing, and coordinating social media and marketing content. Assists with content production, channel management, events, customer experience delivery, brand governance, compliance, and performance analysis. The role offers hands-on development in marketing, content experience, social media, digital experiences, and event delivery, along with support toward a formal marketing qualification.

Analyze, structure, execute, and manage private markets investments across structured credit, asset-backed lending, real estate debt, infrastructure, and related strategies. Build cash flow and financial models, conduct credit and relative value analysis, assess risks, develop investment recommendations, support negotiations, monitor portfolio performance and covenants, and contribute to market research and strategic initiatives. The role partners with internal and external stakeholders throughout transaction approval, execution, and ongoing asset management.

Lead structured credit and mortgage investment transactions across private markets, including securitisation, equity release mortgages, asset-backed lending, and real estate debt. Responsibilities include transaction structuring, cash-flow modelling, pricing, execution, portfolio monitoring, risk assessment, stakeholder coordination, and investment strategy development. The role partners with actuarial, risk, capital, asset management, legal, and external teams while supporting regulatory alignment and mentoring junior investment professionals.

Supports an internal creative agency by contributing to motion design, video production, conceptual creative work, storyboarding, animation, filming, and postproduction. Collaborates with designers, copywriters, and account teams while following brand, regulatory, compliance, and quality standards. The role also supports studio workflows, project coordination, content planning, social analytics, and marketing operations, with formal marketing qualification support provided.

Deliver business and regulatory change initiatives across financial services, managing impact assessments, readiness plans, stakeholder engagement, communications, training, testing, implementation, risks, issues, and governance. The role also applies Microsoft Copilot and AI-enabled solutions to improve processes, operational readiness, customer outcomes, and change delivery, while supporting colleagues’ adoption of AI tools and agent-based solutions.

Highly experienced Business Analyst supporting Project Skye, a large-scale pensions and savings transformation programme. Responsibilities include defining and managing requirements and scope, assessing business impacts, maintaining traceability, supporting solution development and UAT, managing risks and dependencies, coordinating business, technology and third-party stakeholders, and leading readiness, implementation and transition activities.

Manage and deliver internal audits and ad hoc projects across organizational change and transformation activities. Assess risk, governance, and control environments; identify root causes; provide high-level control opinions; and communicate findings to senior management, governance bodies, and board committees. The role requires stakeholder relationship management, regulatory awareness, strong planning, and assurance experience, preferably in financial services.

Administer pensions and investment customer requests accurately and within service levels while delivering excellent customer service. Provide clear financial information and guidance, promote digital self-service channels, identify retention and growth opportunities, comply with regulatory and fair-customer-treatment requirements, and investigate root causes of service issues. The role requires strong customer focus, teamwork, organization, and QFA qualification or part-qualification.