Senior Data Architect - FTC

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.

The Senior Data Architect is responsible for defining, governing and evolving the organisation’s data architecture to enable trusted, well‑designed and well‑managed data assets. The role ensures that data architecture aligns with business strategy, regulatory obligations and technology standards, supporting analytics, operational reporting and advanced use cases such as Machine Learning and Agentic AI. The Data Architect will act as a technical leader, shaping architectural direction and supporting delivery teams to design solutions that are scalable, secure and fit for purpose 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 that support operational, analytical and AI use cases.
- Establish and maintain data architecture standards, principles, patterns and reference architectures.
- Provide architectural oversight and guidance to delivery teams, ensuring designs are consistent with agreed standards and regulatory expectations.
- Collaborate with business, data, analytics, security and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into robust data solutions.
- Support data governance, metadata management, data quality and lineage capabilities across the data landscape.
- Contribute to architectural roadmaps and investment planning, balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability.
- Review and assure data designs to ensure security, resilience, performance and regulatory compliance, particularly within the Financial Services sector.
- Mentor colleagues and promote good data architecture practices across teams.

Key Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Strong knowledge of core data architecture concepts, including data modelling, data platforms and information management.
- Experience designing data solutions that support analytics, reporting and Machine Learning workloads.
- Understanding of how trusted data is woven into agentic solutions.
- 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. 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: careers@mandg.com