Digital Architect - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

At M&G our purpose is
to help people manage and grow their savings and investments, responsibly.

As a business, we are continuing to take steps towards a sustainable future, delivering better long-term solutions for our customers and clientsand identifying new opportunities to make a positive impact for our environment and communities.
To help us achieve our vision we're looking for exceptional people who live our values of care and integrity and who can inspire others; embrace change; deliverresults and keep it simple.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

The Role:

As a Digital Architect at M&G you will be responsible for the following:

Developing, maintaining and communicating elements of a reference architecture that enables the delivery of an ambitious and technology strategy
Defining delivery roadmaps for assigned elements infrastructure stack including classical data centres (network and storage) and cloud
Working with technology and change stakeholders in shaping, delivering and agreeing high level solution architectures that are aligned to M&G Plc. wider Enterprise Architecture
Working closely with digital change projects to ensure that detailed design and delivery work is consistent with the agreed infrastructure architecture
Providing general technology guidance and advice to business and IT stakeholders
Identifying opportunities to deliver business benefit through adoption of new technologies or new ways of working
Ongoing definition and subsequent reuse of common design frameworks, standards, patterns and practices

The role requires close collaboration with business stakeholders, business architects, solution architects, product managers and delivery teams across M&G Plc.

Technical requirements of the role will ideally include extensive and demonstrable knowledge of the following:

Enterprise architecture processes (e.g. TOGAF)
Deep infrastructure knowledge
Deep classical data centre expertise
Logical storage and networking expertise
Modelling and design tooling
Agile project delivery methodologies
DevOps practises and tooling to enable collaboration and automation
Designing solutions based on cloud technologies
Designing for digital security
Best practice digital design patterns
Mobile app development and deployment
Microservices and containerisation
API management technologies

The following skills / experience are also desirable:

Broad knowledge and experience of Azure capabilities
Data modelling and design
Application monitoring tools and techniques
Application performance tuning
A solid understanding of relevant technology trends
Knowledge of Financial Services products and services
Technology specific to Financial Services e.g. policy admin, asset management, calculations, advice compliance and actuarial modelling systems

Work Level:
Manager/Expert

Recruiter Name:
Martyn Jack

Location:
Edinburgh

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent.

Regardless of gender, ethnicity,age, sexual orientation, nationality or disability we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.