Strategic Digital Platform Architect for Propositions

M&G; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme up to 18%

Share Save & Share Incentive Plan

38 days annual leave

Inspiring Families policy

Private Healthcare & Life Assurance

Job summary

M&G is seeking a Digital Platform Proposition Architect to shape how core platforms, including Sonata, enable life and pensions propositions. You will work across proposition, experience, operating model and technology to define how platforms are used, reused and evolved to support scalable digital propositions.

You will partner with product, design and technology, advising on standard capabilities, integration strategies and vendor choices, contributing to the strategic platform roadmap and

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, rather than solving only for one delivery at a time.

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, aligned to the wider Digital Experience strategy.
• 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

Commercial judgement

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Proposition architecture

Tools

Sonata platform

Job description

M&G is seeking a Digital Platform Proposition Architect to shape how core platforms, including Sonata, enable life and pensions propositions. You will work across proposition, experience, operating model and technology to define how platforms are used, reused and evolved to support scalable digital propositions.

You will partner with product, design and technology, advising on standard capabilities, integration strategies and vendor choices, contributing to the strategic platform roadmap and