Data Platform Leader, Snowflake & AI

Prudential UK Services; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

M&G is seeking a Head of Data Engineering to lead a growing team across London and India, delivering a modern, governed data platform built around data products. You will own ingestion, transformation and provisioning, architecting scalable pipelines with Snowflake, ELT patterns and DataOps.

This role emphasizes practical data platform leadership with AI-enabled data products. The ideal candidate has hands-on Snowflake experience in Asset Management or Financial Services, and a track record of

Qualifications

• Significant experience in data engineering, including leading data teams in Asset Management or Financial Services.
• Hands-on experience leading Snowflake platform implementation, ideally in an asset management setting.
• Deep knowledge of modern data platform architecture, medallion and lakehouse, ELT and data modelling.
• Track record delivering data products, including semantic layer implementation for AI and analytics.
• Practical experience bringing AI into data engineering with governance and security.

Responsibilities

• Shape a modern data platform and own ingestion, transformation and provisioning on our Snowflake-centric platform.
• Implement a medallion architecture with clear standards for data promotion from raw to curated to consumption-ready layers.
• Set data engineering standards for ELT, orchestration, data modelling, testing, DataOps and CI/CD for data pipelines and observability.
• Build reusable ingestion, transformation and consumption patterns for BI, APIs, data sharing or AI.
• Lead, mentor and grow data engineers across the UK and India, shifting focus to reusable data products.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Snowflake platform

Data architecture

AI integration

Tools

Snowflake

CI/CD

Job description

M&G is seeking a Head of Data Engineering to lead a growing team across London and India, delivering a modern, governed data platform built around data products. You will own ingestion, transformation and provisioning, architecting scalable pipelines with Snowflake, ELT patterns and DataOps.

This role emphasizes practical data platform leadership with AI-enabled data products. The ideal candidate has hands-on Snowflake experience in Asset Management or Financial Services, and a track record of