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About the Role

The Data Platform Solution Architect plays a key role in enabling trusted, governed, and resilient data products that support reporting, MI, analytics, and operational use cases. The role translates business outcomes into practical, scalable solution designs and ensures alignment with enterprise standards, architectural principles, and control expectations. It focuses on shaping design options, defining target-state patterns, and providing design assurance throughout delivery to reduce risk and accelerate time-to-value. The role works closely with Product Owners, Engineers, Security, Architecture, and business stakeholders to support consistent, high-quality delivery across teams.

Responsibilities

Produce end-to-end solution designs covering ingestion, transformation, storage, semantic layers, and consumption patterns across BI/MI, analytics, and operational integration needs.
Translate business outcomes into clear data product definitions, including scope, SLAs, controls, non-functional requirements, and acceptance criteria.
Embed data governance, data security, and privacy controls into solution designs from inception.
Provide design assurance through delivery by running walkthroughs, advising squads, and ensuring design decisions are applied consistently.
Develop, maintain, and contribute to reference architectures, reusable patterns, templates, and design documentation.
Define integration approaches across APIs, events, and file-based interfaces, ensuring quality checks, reconciliation, and control evidence are incorporated appropriately.
Support governance forums such as Data Design Forum and Technical Design Authority by providing architecture/design reviews and release governance, ensuring design readiness and proactively surfacing risks and issues.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture and platform leadership to ensure designs align to enterprise strategy, principles, roadmaps, and operating models.
Coach engineers and analysts on good design practice, documentation quality, and effective stakeholder communication.

Requirements

Strong experience designing modern data platforms using Lakehouse and warehouse patterns across batch and streaming use cases.
Deep understanding of cloud-based data services (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) and big-data technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, and Fabric.
Strong data-modelling capability across conceptual, logical, and physical designs, including semantic modelling for MI/BI.
Knowledge of key governance areas including data ownership, lineage, metadata, access control, and quality frameworks.
Strong non-functional design skills including resilience, scalability, performance, cost-optimisation, observability, and operability.
Strong communication skills - Ability to explain complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, supporting balanced and informed decision-making.
Delivery-focused mindset with the ability to balance strategic architecture with pragmatic, incremental delivery.
Desirable - Experience delivering solutions in highly regulated, financial services environments.

Skills

Azure
AWS
GCP
Snowflake
Databricks
Fabric
Data Modelling
Semantic Modelling
Data Governance
Data Security
Data Privacy
APIs
Events
File-based interfaces
Communication Skills

Benefits

Valuable pension scheme of up to 18% (13% employer contributions and 5% employee contributions).
Access to Share Save and Share Incentive Plan.
Financial wellbeing and support services.
38 days annual leave (including bank holidays).
Opportunity to purchase up to five extra days of leave.
Time Off When You Need It policy.
Market-leading Inspiring Families policy including comprehensive support and paid parental leave (maternity, adoption, surrogacy, paternity).
Private Healthcare.
Critical Illness cover.
Life Assurance.
Additional family options for Health & Protection cover.

About the Company

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.
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 offer workplace adjustments to ensure you have the support you need to succeed in your role.

Equal Opportunity

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.
If you need any additional support at any stage, please contact us at: careers@mandg.com