Solutions Architect - Fixed Term Contract in Stirling

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. Through telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent. We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer workplace accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

A new opportunity has arisen for a Solution Architect within M&G Enterprise Architecture team. The successful candidate will work principally on the Advice transformation programme, ensuring that our IT Architecture principles and standards are applied effectively and efficiently across a number of exciting, customer-focused change projects.

Key Work Level Accountabilities

• Accountable for delivering expert advice or service, using specialist knowledge and subject matter expertise.
• Applies judgement to deliver outcomes, evaluating a range of potential solutions, considering the impact for customers, cost and risk.
• Manages conflicts that may impact delivery.
• Challenges upwards given knowledge of delivery and awareness of complex systems and the broader picture.
• Identifies and anticipates need for changes to continuously improve quality and efficiency of output.
• Manages resources and risks using expert judgment, know-how and experience.

Key Responsibilities for this role

• Developing, maintaining and communicating the Solution Architecture that enables the delivery of an ambitious and exciting business roadmap.
• Defining delivery roadmaps for assigned elements of the Advice Architecture.
• Working with business and change stakeholders in shaping, delivering and agreeing high level solution architectures that are aligned to M&G wider Enterprise Architecture.
• Working closely with digital change projects to ensure that detailed design and delivery work is consistent with the agreed solution architecture.
• Providing general technology guidance and advice to business and IT stakeholders.
• Identifying opportunities to deliver business benefit through adoption of new technologies or new ways of working.
• Ongoing definition and subsequent reuse of common design frameworks, standards, patterns and practices.

The role requires close collaboration with business stakeholders, business architects, solution architects, product managers and delivery teams across M&G.

Key Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Enterprise architecture processes (e.g. TOGAF).
• Modelling and design tooling.
• Agile project delivery methodologies.
• Designing solutions based on cloud technologies and COTS.
• Designing for digital security.
• Best practice digital design patterns.
• Mobile app development and deployment.
• Artificial intelligence and bot frameworks.
• Advice technology stacks such as XPLAN, IRESS Exchange, FE/CashCalc, and Dynamic Planner.
• API management technologies.

The following skills / experience are also desirable:

• The Salesforce.com platform and its wider ecosystem.
• Data modelling and design.
• Application performance tuning.
• A solid understanding of relevant technology trends.
• Knowledge of Financial Services products and services.
• Micro-services and containerisation.

What we offer

At M&G, we’re committed to helping you thrive and supporting your wellbeing, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, while planning confidently for your future. Our UK benefits include:

• A valuable pension scheme of 18%, with 13% made up of Employer Contributions and 5% Employee Contributions.
• Share Save and our Share Incentive Plan, together with access to financial wellbeing and support services.
• 38 days annual leave including bank holidays, with the opportunity to purchase up to 5 extra days and additional flexibility through our Time Off When You Need It policy.
• Market leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave.
• Health & Protection cover including Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with family options.

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.

M&G is also proud to be a Disability Confident Leader, and we welcome applications from candidates with long-term health conditions, disabilities, or neuro-divergent conditions. If you need assistance or an alternative means of applying for a role due to a disability or additional need, please let us know by contacting us at: careers@mandg.com.