Jobs at Standard Life

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.

Leads HR strategy for the Pensions & Savings business, partnering with executive leaders on organisational effectiveness, workforce planning, succession, leadership capability, culture, transformation, digital and AI-enabled change. Manages HR Business Partners, advises on organisation design and agile operating models, uses workforce insights to guide decisions, and collaborates with specialist HR teams to deliver talent, reward, learning and culture solutions.

Manage asset-liability risks across 22 with-profits funds holding £36 billion in assets. Monitor fund risk profiles, recommend and implement hedging actions, engage with finance and investment teams, present recommendations to senior leaders, improve processes, support ALM-related projects, and mentor colleagues. The role requires understanding with-profits balance sheets and capital requirements, with asset-liability management and hedging experience preferred.

Provide comprehensive administrative and executive support to senior leaders, including complex diary management, meeting and event coordination, international travel logistics, briefing materials, action tracking, expense management, and stakeholder engagement. The role requires discretion, sound judgment, adaptability, proactive problem-solving, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, primarily onsite environment.

Lead the Workforce Transformation programme from mobilisation through implementation and transition to business ownership. Coordinate multiple workstreams, accountable leaders, Centres of Excellence and specialist teams to create an integrated delivery plan. Manage dependencies, resolve issues, challenge assumptions, make trade-offs and ensure workforce strategy, planning, skills development and new ways of working are implemented effectively across the organisation.

Oversee collateral and liquidity activity within Asset Management, analyzing margin requirements, collateral balances, liquidity positions, and asset pools. Investigate material movements, produce management information, support regulatory reporting, and communicate findings to stakeholders. The role also contributes to operating-model improvements, regulatory change initiatives, controls, and integration of new business activity.

Provides senior technical leadership for customer-facing digital platforms. Owns technical vision, target architecture, roadmap, engineering standards, resilience, security, observability, cloud-native delivery, and AI-enabled software development practices. Influences multiple engineering teams and partners, manages technical debt and risks, supports investment decisions, leads recovery of challenged initiatives, and develops senior technical leaders. Deep AWS and modern digital platform engineering expertise is required.

Leads operational delivery, assurance, continuous improvement, and transformation for the Group Governance function. Develops rolling operational plans, governance operating models, technology adoption, controls, reporting, and capability. Partners with senior governance leaders to improve board and committee effectiveness, align resources and priorities, manage regulatory requirements, and deliver sustainable organisational change across a complex, regulated financial services group.

Lead proposition development and governance for retirement products, ensuring customer needs, regulatory obligations, operational considerations, and commercial objectives are balanced. Translate complex regulatory and technical information into clear recommendations, oversee proposition activity, manage risks and governance priorities, coordinate stakeholders, and provide constructive challenge to support sound decisions and positive customer outcomes.

Deliver end-to-end product, fair value, and investment outcome reviews across life and pensions products. Identify risks to customer outcomes, assess regulatory compliance and fair value, analyze evidence from multiple sources, and produce clear recommendations. The role requires collaboration with stakeholders and subject matter experts while ensuring reviews meet Consumer Duty expectations, internal risk appetites, regulatory requirements, and agreed timelines.

Own end-to-end onboarding for derivative trading counterparties across Standard Life entities. Coordinate KYC, due diligence, legal documentation, collateral agreements, regulatory requirements, and system configuration across Aladdin, FXALL, Tradeweb, DTCC, and MarkitWire. Partner with Front Office, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Middle and Back Office teams, custodians, clearing brokers, and external counterparties. Maintain accurate agreement data, support margin and EMIR reporting requirements, prioritize requests, resolve issues, and escalate risks appropriately.

Principal Platform Engineer responsible for the enterprise-wide technical direction, architecture, security, resilience, and operation of a cloud customer contact platform across AWS, Amazon Connect, and Salesforce Voice. The role leads platform strategy, integrations, infrastructure automation, observability, compliance, cost controls, critical incident resolution, and engineering standards while influencing senior stakeholders and delivery partners.

Leads the People Technology product and engineering portfolio, translating workforce strategy and stakeholder needs into digital products and experiences. Owns demand intake, roadmaps, prioritization, product management, engineering capacity, testing, delivery, adoption, and value realization. Builds multidisciplinary product and engineering capabilities and delivers AI-enabled solutions using Oracle, Microsoft 365, Copilot, automation, integrations, and related technologies. Partners with platform, technology, risk, and colleague experience teams to ensure secure, scalable, accessible, and outcome-focused delivery.

Leads the People Technology team and multi-year strategy across Oracle HCM, digital tools, AI, automation, data, integrations, vendors, and governance. Owns the technology roadmap, investment portfolio, operating model, risk oversight, and enterprise partnerships while improving colleague experience, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and measurable business value. Builds a high-performing team and advises senior People and technology leaders in a regulated environment.

Leads the stability, resilience, security, controls, and service performance of enterprise People Technology platforms, including Oracle HCM and payroll-critical services. Oversees integrations, access security, incident and problem management, continuity, change and release governance, monitoring, technical debt reduction, and outsourced service providers. Partners across People, Technology, Finance, Risk, and Audit while developing the platform team and strengthening internal capability, operational resilience, and colleague experience.

Owns cloud architecture direction across engineering, defining AWS principles, target-state architectures, standards, guardrails, and reusable blueprints. Designs and deploys reference architectures and proofs of concept, resolves complex technical challenges, and drives secure, resilient, scalable cloud-native solutions. The role provides senior technical leadership across multiple teams while balancing engineering delivery with enterprise risk and control requirements.

Manage asset-liability management for 22 with-profits funds holding £36 billion in assets. Monitor fund risk profiles, recommend and implement hedging and other actions, present recommendations to senior leaders, challenge finance reporting inputs, collaborate with asset management, support projects, improve processes, and mentor team members. Requires a qualified or part-qualified actuary with relevant post-qualification experience and knowledge of with-profits balance sheets, capital requirements, assets, and hedging.

Provides technical actuarial leadership across Bulk Purchase Annuity schemes from buy-in through buy-out. Responsibilities include reviewing benefit specifications and member calculations, overseeing actuarial factors, supporting complex pension matters such as GMP equalisation, leading technical workstreams, maintaining governance, and monitoring regulatory developments. The role collaborates with trustees, scheme advisers, administrators, outsourced partners, and internal teams.

Responsible for quality monitoring across the advice business, including call monitoring and process output reviews. The role assesses customer outcomes, customer experience, conduct risk, and regulatory compliance under the organization’s Quality Framework. Candidates need regulated financial advice expertise, quality control or financial advice experience, and a minimum Level 4 Financial Planning qualification or equivalent. Life and pensions knowledge is preferred.