Solution Analyst (Pega)

Job Description Summary

Solution Analyst (Pega)

Permanent

Location: Edinburgh or Witham (typically 2 days in the office per week, 3 from home)

Salary: A competitive salary from £46,000 - £57,500 depending on the experience you can bring

Closing date: 22 January 2025

As a purpose-led business, we’re focused on supporting our customers as they navigate through new stages of their lives and all the moments that matter. We’re here for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it, however grand or humble their ambitions.

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.

A new opportunity has arisen for a Solution Analyst (Pega) to join our IT Digital Solutions Team.

In this role you will collaborate with stakeholders across the Aegon UK business to prescribe solutions to business needs. You will play a crucial role in the design, development, and implementation that drive our business processes and improve our customers' experiences. Your expertise in Pega will be essential in ensuring our solutions are scalable, efficient, and aligned with Aegon UK’s strategic objectives.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

1. Communicating with a variety of stakeholders both internally and externally to understand business needs and develop solutions.
2. Utilising expert Pega knowledge to design high-level solutions, either autonomously or with the support of a Solutions Architect.
3. Providing oversight and quality control to solutions developed by the wider team and allocating work to Analyst programmers within the team.
4. Preparing and conducting meetings, workshops, and presentations for a wide variety of audiences, demonstrating consistently high qualities of communication and persuasive skills.

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

1. Excellent stakeholder management skills, utilising effective communication and influencing.
2. Excellent analysis skills - acquiring understanding of a problem or situation by breaking it down systematically into its component parts and identifying the relationships.
3. Excellent planning and organisational abilities.
4. Expertise in Application Development Methods, Techniques and Standards using Pega.
5. Proficient in the application of automated systems.
6. Relevant IT Tools Experience including Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Office.
7. Basic knowledge of Aegon UK products at a high level.
8. PEGA Certified Senior System Architect.

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 employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant, and online GP appointments.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity.