Solution Designer in England

At M&G, our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions. Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.

The Solution Designer is responsible for shaping and defining technology solutions that support Corporate Functions across the organisation, including Finance, Risk, HR, Legal, Workplace Solutions, Audit, and Corporate Affairs. The role focuses on translating business needs into clear, robust, and sustainable solution designs that align with enterprise architecture principles, security standards, and strategic objectives.

Main Responsibilities:

• Work with Corporate Function stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into clear solution designs.
• Produce high-quality solution designs covering functional, non-functional, integration, data, and security considerations.
• Ensure solution designs align with enterprise architecture standards, technology strategy, and governance processes.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, analysts, and delivery teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Identify and manage design risks, assumptions, and dependencies, ensuring appropriate mitigations are in place.
• Assess solution options and provide clear, evidence-based recommendations.
• Support delivery teams during implementation to maintain design integrity while responding to change.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of solution design practices, patterns, and standards.

Key Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:

• Experience designing technology solutions in complex corporate or enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end solution design, including applications, integrations, and data.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working within structured delivery and governance frameworks.
• Awareness of security, resilience, and regulatory considerations relevant to corporate systems.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills.
• Have at least 3 years’ experience designing Finance & Data Technology Architecture.
• Significant Experience with Oracle Fusion, EPM.
• Significant Experience with Azure Data Tooling: ADF, Databricks, Synapse.
• Ability to understand Data Modelling & Data Governance.
• Strong understanding of Finance processes and their supporting technology landscapes.

What we offer:

We’re dedicated to supporting your wellbeing and helping you thrive, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, and financially plan for the future. Our UK benefits include:

• A valuable pension scheme of up to 18% (13% made up of employer contributions and 5% employee contributions).
• Access to our Share Save and Share Incentive Plan, alongside financial wellbeing and support services.
• Enjoy 38 days annual leave (including bank holidays), with the opportunity to purchase up to five extra days.
• Our Time Off When You Need It policy gives you the flexibility to balance work and personal commitments.
• Our market-leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave.
• Health & Protection cover includes Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with additional family options.

At M&G we strive to have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture, underpinned by our policies and employee-led networks that offer networking, support and development opportunities for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – across gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation and more – including neurodivergent individuals, career returners and those with military service experience.

M&G is proud to be Level 3: Disability Confident Leader under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme, and we welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you would like to participate in the initiative, you will have the opportunity to indicate this on your application. We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. All candidates have the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments when applying.