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Senior Data & AI Architect
Data & AI Architect
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 financial 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 create 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.
About the Role
The Data & AI Architect role ensures that Data & AI architecture aligns with business strategy, regulatory obligations and technology standards, supporting data integration, analytics, and advanced use cases such as Machine Learning and Agentic AI. The Data & AI Architect acts as a technical leader, shaping architectural direction, and supporting delivery teams to design scalable, secure, and purpose-driven solutions within a Financial Services environment.
Main Responsibilities
- Define and maintain enterprise-, domain-, and solution-level data architecture aligned to business and technology strategies.
- Design logical and physical data models to support operational, analytical, and AI use cases.
- Establish and maintain architecture standards, principles, patterns, and reference architectures.
- Provide architectural oversight and guidance to delivery teams, ensuring designs are consistent with agreed standards and meet regulatory expectations.
- Collaborate with business, data, analytics, security, and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into robust solutions.
- Contribute to architectural roadmaps and investment planning, balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability.
- Review and assure designs to ensure security, resilience, performance, and regulatory compliance, particularly within Financial Services.
- Mentor colleagues and promote good data & AI architecture practices across teams.
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Key Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- Strong knowledge of core data architecture concepts, including data modelling, data platforms, and information management.
- Understanding of the evolving architecture stack for Agentic AI.
- Real-world experience in grounding AI solutions in corporate data (structured/unstructured).
- Experience designing data solutions that support analytics, reporting, and Machine Learning workloads.
- Understanding of data governance, data quality, metadata management, and data lineage.
- Experience working within the Financial Services sector, with awareness of regulatory and risk considerations affecting data design.
- Ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Essential Skills
- Data modelling (conceptual, logical, and physical).
- Data integration and information flow design.
- Architecture standards, principles, and design assurance.
- Stakeholder engagement and technical leadership.
- Problem-solving and structured thinking.
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.
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UK Benefits
As a savings and investments firm, we offer:
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A valuable pension scheme (18%), consisting of 13% Employer Contributions and 5% Employee Contributions.
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Share Save and Share Incentive Plan, along with access to financial wellbeing and support services.
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38 days of annual leave (including bank holidays), with the opportunity to purchase up to 5 extra days and additional flexibility via our Time Off When You Need It policy.
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Inspiring Families policy (one of our market-leading benefits), including comprehensive support and paid parental leave for maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave.
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Health & Protection cover, including Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with family options.
Find out more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering here.
M&G is proud to foster a diverse workflowforce with an inclusive culture. Our polices and our employee-led networks ensure inclusivity and support for colleagues from all backgrounds, including by gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, and long-term health conditions. We also welcome-individuals who have served in the military or taken career breaks.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we actively encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, long-term health conditions, and neuro-divergent conditions.
If you need assistance or an alternative means of applying for a role due to a disability or additional need, please contact us at careers@mandg.com.
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