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Solution Architect
Our Purpose
Our mission is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a rich 175-year heritage, we excel in savings and investments, merging asset management with insurance expertise to offer diverse solutions.
We operate through two segments, Asset Management and Life, collaborating to deliver balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.
Guided by our values—telling it like it is, owning our challenges, and progressing together with care and integrity—we create an exceptional workplace for exceptional talent.
Flexible working arrangements and workplace accommodations are available for all roles to support effective performance.
Job Title
Solution Architect – Corporate Functions Technology
Job Description
The Solution Architect leads the design of technology solutions that support Finance functions within the Corporate Functions Technology team. This role bridges business and technology, translating intricate requirements into architecturally sound, scalable, and strategically aligned system designs.
Key responsibilities include:
- Deep expertise in Finance and Data platforms.
- Ensuring technology solutions align with enterprise architecture, security standards, and long-term strategy.
- Enabling integrated, end-to-end processes through automation and platform-led innovation.
- Optimising data consistency and minimising operational complexity.
Main Responsibilities
- Drive stakeholder engagement: Collaborate with Corporate Function teams to clarify strategic goals and intricate business needs, translating them into clear, high-value solution designs covering functional, non-functional, integration, data, security, and resilience criteria.
- Design scalable solutions: Own end-to-end solution designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles, target state architecture, and technology strategy. Adhere to governance and assurance frameworks.
- Foster integrated Finance processes: Develop solutions that streamline Finance and Corporate Function workflows, enhancing data consistency and reducing manual effort via automation and platform capabilities.
- Adopt modern architectures: Incorporate emerging design principles—such as API-led, event-driven, and automation-first architectures—where beneficial to improve efficiency and adaptability.
- Collaborative leadership: Partner with enterprise architects, engineers, analysts, and delivery teams across the solution lifecycle. Foster design integrity and maintain robust oversight throughout implementation.
- Risk mitigation: Identify and manage design risks, assumptions, and dependencies. Implement mitigation strategies that address cost, risk, complexity, and strategic alignment derivatives.
- Provide evidence-based guidance: Evaluate solution options and communicate objective recommendations to stakeholders at all levels.
- Governance and compliance: Contribute to architecture forums, ensuring designs meet quality, regulatory, and compliance standards.
- Promote best practices: Drive continuous improvement in solution design patterns, reuse, and consistency towards a standardised framework.
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Key Requirements
Proven experience designing complex technology solutions in large-scale corporate/enterprise environments, with a focus on Finance and Data architectures is essential. Key competencies include:
- End-to-end solution design expertise across applications, integrations, and data, with a focus on scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
- Strong knowledge of Finance platforms such as Oracle Fusion, AHCS, and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), alongside their integration into broad enterprise ecosystems.
- Proficiency in Azure data technologies, including Data Factory, Databricks, and Synapse. Familiarity with modern data architecture paradigms is crucial.
- Understanding of data modelling, governance, and ensuring semantic consistency across finance and reporting domains.
- Knowledge of regulatory compliance, security, resilience, data quality considerations, and their application in designing Finance-centric solutions.
- Stakeholder communication: Ability to translate complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences in persuasive terms.
- Leadership and influence: Skilled at managing cross-functional stakeholders and driving aligned outcomes within structured delivery frameworks.
- Experience contributing to architecture assurance processes and adhering to structured governance principles.
- Advantageous: Comprehension of API-led design, automation-first/AI-enabled solutions, and emerging integration strategies.
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What We Offer
At M&G, we prioritise your professional growth and well-being with benefits designed to support your equilibrium between personal and professional responsibilities.
UK Benefits
| Category | Benefit |
|---|---|
| Pension Support | 18% total contribution (13% employer, 5% employee) through a robust savings plan. Comprehensive Share Save and Share Incentive Plan options. Access to financial wellness and guidance services. |
| Leave Entitlements | 38 days annual leave (including bank holidays), with the flexibility to purchase up to 5 extra leave days through the Time Off When You Need It policy. |
| Family Support | Inspiring Families policy including extended maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave, alongside inclusive workplace support for childcare and parenting. |
| Health & Protection | Comprehensive healthcare, critical illness coverage, and life assurance for you and your family, providing peace of mind. |
Beyond Culture
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is core: we welcome talent from varied backgrounds, including:
- Underrepresented genders and ethnicities.
- LGBTQ+ communities.
- Participants in military service.
- Candidates returning from career breaks.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we celebrate applicants with long-term health conditions, disabilities, or neuro-divergent profiles.
Need assistance? For support in applying due to a disability or to discuss structural accommodations, contact careers@mandg.com.
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