Senior Analyst (DB Systems Development)

DB Systems Development Senior Analyst

Location: London

Job Type: Full time

Who are Just? We’re a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions. Our world is moving quickly, and with the defined benefit buy in / buy out space growing each year, Just continues to grow its business by over £4bn of assets annually.

We are a purpose-driven company with compelling goals. We help people achieve a better later life by providing competitive and innovative products, services, financial advice, and guidance to help our customers achieve security and peace of mind in retirement.

Purpose: To support the company's ambitious growth plans, we are recruiting for a DB Systems Senior Analyst to join our DB (Defined Benefit) System Development team. This role supports Just’s DB Pricing platform through building, developing, and maintaining databases and models used for pricing calculations of defined benefit bulk annuities.

Your contributions will enhance the scalability of our Pricing platform, supporting the DB team to provide reliable, comprehensive, and market-leading solutions to our clients.

Responsibilities Include:

• Be a key member of the DB System Development team responsible for developing and maintaining our Pricing platform.
• Continuously seek opportunities to improve and enhance the processes of the DB Core Pricing team.
• Develop a deep technical knowledge of all systems, tools, and coding languages used in DB Systems Development.
• Work closely with the DB Core Pricing team to gather requirements and specifications for model development, testing, and validation.
• Ensure model developments are embedded effectively.
• Collaborate with the DB Strategic Development team to ensure interoperability of the Pricing and Data platforms.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues in Finance and Reporting, the DB Data and Transitions, and DB Operations teams.
• Proactively work to promote a culture of collaboration and engagement across the DB Pricing & Reinsurance team.
• Be curious, proactive, and open to new ideas.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience:

Essential:

• Familiarity with programming languages for financial modelling, e.g., Julia, Python, R, or VBA.
• Enthusiasm and a keenness to learn and collaborate with the team.
• Understanding of automated testing and continuous integration.
• Experience of working with databases, e.g., SQL, Access would be advantageous.

Desirable:

• 2.1 or above in a technical/mathematical degree.
• Coding experience in a workplace setting, e.g., Julia, Python, R, or VBA.
• Sound knowledge of technical actuarial concepts or financial economics.
• Good knowledge of UK Defined Benefit pension schemes and the DB buy in/buy out market.
• Experience of working with cloud-based or distributed computing.

Why Just? We are committed to building a more sustainable business and have publicly committed to reduce our scope 3 emissions to Net Zero by 2050 and our scope 1 and 2 emissions to Net Zero by 2025.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority for Just. We have joined initiatives designed to improve outcomes for employees from underrepresented backgrounds and run a Reciprocal Mentoring scheme for employees from diverse backgrounds.

What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing, and most importantly - each other.