Head of Data Engineering & Platform Innovation

M&G plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

A valuable pension scheme up to 18%

Share Save & Share Incentive Plan

38 days annual leave including bank

Inspiring Families policy

Private healthcare

Job summary

M&G plc is seeking a Head of Data Engineering to lead a growing team in London. You will design and manage a modern, Snowflake-centric data platform, deliver governed data products and enable AI-driven analytics.

The role combines hands-on architecture with leadership across the UK and India, focusing on scalable, secure data solutions and cost-efficient operations. You will shape data strategy, drive data quality and observability, and build a high-performing team that collaborates across data

Qualifications

• Significant experience in data engineering, including leading teams in financial services.
• Hands-on Snowflake platform implementation experience in asset management.
• Deep knowledge of medallion/lakehouse architectures, ELT and data modelling.
• Proven track record designing data products and semantic layers for AI/analytics.
• Experience embedding data governance: catalog, quality, lineage and observability.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, privacy, and regulatory controls.
• Proven ability to collaborate across data and technology functions.
• Experience leading offshore teams and creating a one-team culture.
• Experience with data mesh or hub-and-spoke operating models.
• Solid understanding of investment data and assets.

Responsibilities

• Shape and migrate to a modern, governed data platform.
• Deliver trusted, reusable data products with data contracts and lineage.
• Lead and grow a UK/India data engineering team across locations.
• Bring AI into data engineering with semantic models and AI tooling.
• Retire legacy platforms, reduce data estate complexity and cost.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Snowflake implementation

Data platform architecture

Data products design

Data governance tooling

Cloud security

Cross-team collaboration

Offshore team leadership

Data mesh

Asset management knowledge

Data migrations

Tools

Snowflake platform

Azure Databricks

SQL

Python

dbt

DataOps

CI/CD

Streaming

CDC

APIs

FinOps

Data observability tooling

AI-assisted data tools

Job description

M&G plc is seeking a Head of Data Engineering to lead a growing team in London. You will design and manage a modern, Snowflake-centric data platform, deliver governed data products and enable AI-driven analytics.

The role combines hands-on architecture with leadership across the UK and India, focusing on scalable, secure data solutions and cost-efficient operations. You will shape data strategy, drive data quality and observability, and build a high-performing team that collaborates across data