We are M&G Global Services Private Limited (formerly known as 10FA India Private Limited, and prior to that Prudential Global Services Private Limited). We are a fully owned subsidiary of the M&G plc group of companies, operating as a Global Capability Centre providing a range of value adding services to the Group since 2003. At M&G our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. As an international savings and investments business with roots stretching back more than 170 years, we offer a range of financial products and services through Asset Management, Life and Wealth. All three operating segments work together to deliver attractive financial outcomes for our clients, and superior shareholder returns.
M&G Global Services has rapidly transformed itself into a powerhouse of capability that is playing an important role in M&G plc’s ambition to be the best loved and most successful savings and investments company in the world.
Our diversified service offerings extending from Digital Services (Digital Engineering, AI, Advanced Analytics, RPA, and BI & Insights), Business Transformation, Management Consulting & Strategy, Finance, Actuarial, Quants, Research, Information Technology, Customer Service, Risk & Compliance and Audit provide our people with exciting career growth opportunities. Through our behaviours of telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.
Key Qualifications:
- Inspire the team to deliver exceptional performance by helping them to connect the purpose of their work, beyond the impact to the bottom line
- Support direct reports to make effective decisions, collaborate across silos, speak up and take personal accountability
- Encourage Investment Platform team to solve business problems creatively and collaboratively and question the status quo
- Be curious and insightful about customer’s needs and support Investment Platform team to adapt to the changing environment
- Simplify complexity and reduce unnecessary bureaucracy
Key accountabilities and responsibilities
- Owning the engineering roadmap for their squad, driving continuous improvement - ways of working, leveraging emerging technologies, driving automation, platform health etc
- Deliver business prioritised changes
- Demonstrate a solid understanding of the technology, and domain knowledge
- Acting as techncal lead and overseeing the quality of engineering for their squad.
- Ensuring any solutions being designed within the squad meet M&G standards
- Fostering strong relationships with the other key stakeholders - outcome delivery managers, engineering lead, enterprise architecture, technology partners, SRE, and other platforms
- Playing an active role in engineering community for learning and sharing.
- Lead the development of solutions end-to-end and see it through until it reaches the end customer.
- Develop scalable solutions for investment teams across multiple asset classes in an agile development environment
- Lead solution design and presents to design forum for approval,
- Leads tech improvements within the squad
- Identify and implement best practices within the squad,
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the squad members
- Build and maintain strong relationships with all members of the team
- Contribute actively in the Lead Engineering Team and lead initiatives within the squad
- Partnering with and assisting the Investment Plaform’s change and run teams to deliver their objectives
- Work across multiple disciplines across the Investment Platform and opportunities to connect and improve working practices
- Consistently identify improvement opportunities within the team and implements processes, ways of working or facilitate training to address improvement opportunities
- Works within established frameworks and procedures, with the freedom to interpret them to solve a range of problems
- Build and maintain strong relationships with all key stakeholders in the Front Office, Sustainability focused teams, Transformation & Innovation or the engineering community
Key Stakeholder Management
Internal
M&G Investments
External
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Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Educational Qualification
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS (KEY):
- Advanced software engineering skills paired with expertise in some of the following programming languages: C#, Java, Python, Javascript, HTML/CSS or equivalent
- A good understanding of DevOps principles and experience in building CI/CD pipelines
- Strong experience working with data on Azure including Azure Data Lake, ADLA, Cosmos DB, SQL, and Datafactory
- Demonstrates Architectural Excellence by developing solutions using the guiding tenets of Azure Well-Architected Framework covering reliability, security, cost optimisation, operational excellence and performance efficiency
- Has good Azure experience on PaaS services such as App Service, Function App, Logic App, Data Factory, Service Bus and Key Vault
- Understands Azure AD, Service Principals and Managed Identities to configure role based access for web applications
- Is able to investigate application issues by using telemetry and Application Insights information
- Has experience with REST APIs and Microservices and API management on Apigee
- Follows best coding practices using SOLID principles, design patterns and other industry standards
- Proactive self-starter who can manage their own workload and can juggle multiple priorities at the same time
- Experience working in an agile environment and good understanding of integrating testing withing the SDLC
- Applying a “solutions” mentality for any outcome that you are assigned to and ensure proper solutions design is considered
- Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both written and orally, within a project team
- Ability to identify problems and have the drive to follow them through to resolution
- Excellent attention to detail, and ability to prioritize and work efficiently to project deadlines
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS (DESIRABLE):
- Relevant experience developing back or frontend solutions (e.g. On Azure Cloud, Angular, React, Node.js software frameworks)
- Exposure to financial markets & asset management processes and understand analysis into a wide variety of asset classes and associated analytics (e.g. Equity, Fixed Income, Private Assets etc)
- Exposure to data visualisation tools - Power BI or equivalent
EXPERIENCE:
- 14 + years of total experience in software engineering
- 4 + years of experience in a core engineering role in the cloud
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY:
- Graduate in any discipline
We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G Global Services, regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, 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.
