Solution Architect — Life, Advice & Marketing

M&G; City of Edinburgh; Hybride; GBP 70 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Pension up to 18%

Share Save & SIP

38 days annual leave

Time Off When You Need It

Parental leave – Inspiring Families

Private Healthcare

Résumé du poste

M&G is seeking a Solution Architect to work across the Life portfolio, with direct responsibility for Advice and Marketing. You will translate business and technology requirements into end-to-end architectures spanning customer and colleague experiences, applications, data, AI, security and infrastructure.

The role focuses on Advice and Marketing and requires collaboration with stakeholders, architects, product managers and delivery teams to shape solutions and provide architectural

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect in a complex organisation, ideally financial services.
• Experience designing end-to-end solutions across applications, integration, data, security, digital and cloud technologies.
• Experience designing solutions using SaaS, COTS and cloud services.
• Knowledge of modern integration approaches.
• Ability to structure complex or ambiguous problems and turn them into clear architectural choices and recommendations.
• Experience assessing technology and vendor options and balancing business value, cost, risk, reuse and future flexibility.
• Experience supporting detailed design and delivery against an agreed solution architecture.
• Understanding of security, privacy, resilience and identity considerations within solution design.
• Experience of architecture governance, design assurance and presenting architecture to business and technology stakeholders.
• Knowledge of architecture methods, modelling approaches and design tooling.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence senior business, technology and third‑party stakeholders.
• Pragmatic and delivery‑focused, adapting the depth of architecture to the scale and complexity of the problem.

Responsabilités

• Solution architecture: Develop, maintain and communicate end-to-end solution architectures that translate business requirements into pragmatic technology solutions.
• Roadmaps: Define target‑state views, transition architectures and delivery roadmaps for assigned areas of change.
• Options and recommendations: Assess build, buy and reuse options, including third‑party solutions, and make clear recommendations balancing business value, cost, risk and future flexibility.
• Architecture alignment: Ensure proposed solutions align with M&G’s wider Enterprise Architecture, principles, standards and agreed patterns.
• Design assurance: Work with delivery teams to ensure detailed design and implementation remain consistent with the agreed solution architecture.
• Technology guidance: Provide pragmatic technology and architecture advice to business, product, change and IT stakeholders.
• Data and integration: Design solutions that make appropriate use of governed data, reusable data products and integration patterns.
• AI and emerging technology: Identify appropriate opportunities to apply AI and other technologies, using M&G-approved approaches and appropriate governance and controls.
• Security and resilience: Ensure solutions consider security, identity and access, privacy, third‑party risk and operational resilience requirements.
• Governance: Present and defend designs through the appropriate architecture and design governance forums and provide assurance through delivery.
• Simplification and modernisation: Identify opportunities to simplify the technology estate, reduce duplication, modernise legacy technology and improve reuse.
• Standards and reuse: Contribute to and promote common architecture frameworks, standards, reference architectures, patterns and practices.

Connaissances

Solution Architect

Financial Services

End-to-end Design

Cloud & SaaS

Security & Privacy

Architecture Governance

Stakeholder Influence

Outils

Salesforce

Adobe Experience Cloud

Description du poste

M&G is seeking a Solution Architect to work across the Life portfolio, with direct responsibility for Advice and Marketing. You will translate business and technology requirements into end-to-end architectures spanning customer and colleague experiences, applications, data, AI, security and infrastructure.

The role focuses on Advice and Marketing and requires collaboration with stakeholders, architects, product managers and delivery teams to shape solutions and provide architectural