Job Title: BPA Senior Data and Technical Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: London or Alderley Park

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 16th December 2025

Join Royal London’s Bulk Purchase Annuities (BPA) operations team as a senior data and technical manager. Lead high-impact projects, collaborate with senior stakeholders and drive operational excellence to shape the future of our annuities offering.

About the role

• Lead and manage the BPA Data and Technical team, providing guidance, support and strategic direction.
• Oversee the processing and onboarding of member data, ensuring robust controls and high standards of quality and timeliness.
• Act as a senior escalation point for technical and operational issues, influencing decisions across BPA Operations.
• Configure and test benefit calculations and individual member documentation.
• Champion data governance as Data Steward, ensuring compliance with the Group Data Governance Framework.
• Support new business by assessing data quality, benefit specifications and identifying risks in complex transactions.
• Drive continuous improvement through the production and analysis of management information reports and operational data feeds.
• Oversee data cleanse and cashflow true-up, sign off data cleanse materials.

About you

• Proven experience leading large-scale operational teams or projects with significant business impact.
• Strong DB pensions expertise, ideally with experience in BPAs and defined benefit pensions administration.
• Skilled in data migration, configuration of bespoke calculations and data quality testing.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, able to influence at all levels.
• Proficient in Excel and/or SQL with a credible financial services background.
• Collaborative, proactive and committed to continuous improvement.
• Confident working autonomously and taking accountability for high-quality delivery.

About Royal London

Royal London is the UK’s largest mutual life pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, up to 14% employer matching pension scheme, private medical insurance and a range of other workplace benefits.

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We are an inclusive employer, celebrating and valuing different backgrounds and cultures, and fostering a workplace where diversity is respected and leveraged.

Key Skills

• Project Management Methodology
• Program Management
• SOAP
• Agile
• Oracle EBS
• Apache Pig
• Adobe Experience Manager
• Jira
• Release Management
• Scrum
• SAS
• SDLC

Employment Type

Full Time

Vacancy

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