Hybrid Digital Platform Proposition Architect

M&G; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 18%

Share Save & Incentive Plan

38 days annual leave

Parental leave policy

Private healthcare

Job summary

M&G is seeking a Digital Platform Proposition Architect to join our Edinburgh/London area team. In this role you will shape how core platforms, especially Sonata, are used to create scalable digital propositions for customers and advisers.

You will work across proposition, experience, operating model and technology to develop clear platform choices, advise on reuse and standardisation, and influence platform decisions with cross-functional colleagues and strategic partners.

Qualifications

• Experience applying proposition and architecture thinking to connect business needs with platform capability.
• Strong practical knowledge of Sonata and how it is configured, integrated and used to support life and pensions propositions.
• Experience shaping the use of a core or SaaS platform across products, propositions or services.
• Experience influencing decisions across business, product, technology and external partners.
• Experience of working in a regulated financial services environment, with an understanding of Consumer Duty or equivalent customer-outcome requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate a forward-looking view of how Sonata and other core platforms should be used and how they should evolve across digital propositions.
• Work as part of digital proposition development from its earliest stages, helping proposition, experience, operating model and platform capability come together before delivery commitments are made.
• Turn proposition and operating-model needs into clear choices about standard capability, configuration, customisation, integration and reuse.
• Apply learning across programmes and identify where platform capability, integrations and proven approaches can be reused.
• Provide informed recommendations and constructive challenge at investment, design and governance decision points, influencing direction through evidence, expertise and judgement.
• Develop a cross-platform view of how Sonata and other platforms work within the wider digital and data ecosystem, identifying the capabilities, dependencies and choices relevant to the future digital proposition strategy.
• Use knowledge of the Sonata roadmap, market practice and M&G’s future needs to influence platform choices and contribute to the strategic vendor relationship.

Skills

Platform architecture

Proposition thinking

Regulated financial services

Stakeholder influence

Clear communication

Tools

Sonata

Job description

M&G is seeking a Digital Platform Proposition Architect to join our Edinburgh/London area team. In this role you will shape how core platforms, especially Sonata, are used to create scalable digital propositions for customers and advisers.

You will work across proposition, experience, operating model and technology to develop clear platform choices, advise on reuse and standardisation, and influence platform decisions with cross-functional colleagues and strategic partners.