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Data Platform Solution Architect

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Senior level
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2 Locations
Senior level
The Data Platform Solution Architect designs scalable data solutions, ensuring compliance with governance, integrating data practices, and collaborating with teams to deliver quality data products.
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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 work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

Job Description
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.
Main 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, 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.
Key Knowledge, Skills and Experience
  • 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.

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:

  • As a savings and Investments firm we are proud to offer a valuable pension scheme of 18%, with 13% made up of Employer Contributions and 5% Employee Contributions. We also offer Share Save and our Share Incentive Plan, together with access to financial wellbeing and support services - to help give you real confidence to put your money to work.

  • Enjoy 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 – to balance your work and personal commitments.  

  • Our market leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - as supporting families is a core aspect of our inclusive culture.

  • Health & Protection cover including Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with family options - for peace of mind.

To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G

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: [email protected]

Top Skills

AWS
Azure
Databricks
Fabric
GCP
Lakehouse
Snowflake
Warehouse Patterns

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