Senior Engineer - Data

About M&G India We are M&G India, the strategic innovation and digital hub for M&G. Established in 2003, we have offices in Mumbai and Pune. Our teams work closely with colleagues across the Group worldwide to drive transformation, build digital capability, and support sustainable growth. By leveraging technology, AI, automation, and process excellence, we bring new ways of thinking to improve outcomes for both customers and colleagues. Grounded in a vibrant culture with strong foundations, we are central to how M&G is transforming as a business.

About M&G Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions. Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions. Through 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. M&G plc now have a new Finance and Actuarial Data Solution, known as FADS, responsible for the ingestion, transformation and output provision for the majority of Finance Data. These processes encompass a vast number of actuarial modelling and accounting ledger, reporting/MI and regulatory processes (Solvency II, IFRS17 etc). FADS is the main ETL system for these processes. As the Technical lead of the FADS Support Team, you will work within M&G plc Corporate Functions IT. This team is responsible for delivering application support, development and management of the Microsoft Azure cloud application suite. The team will support the newly delivered applications and perform day 2 development activities, driving high quality, efficiently designed applications. They will also be responsible and act as key SMEs for any planned future growth of the use of the system.

Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Act as technical and data SME/Analyst of the process and systems, and work with business to ensure requirements (Run and Change) are understood by the service teams Experience in migrating on-premise data warehouses to data platforms on AZURE cloud
• Designing and implementing data engineering, ingestion and transformation functions using ADF, Databricks
• Good to have knowledge in Lakehouse/Datawarehouse implementation using modern data platform architecture
• Support data visualization development using Power BI
• Exposure across all the SDLC process, including testing and deployment
• Experience in relational and dimensional modelling, including big data technologies
• Experience in Azure DevOps – Build CI/CD pipelines for ADF, ADLS, Databricks, Azure SQL DB etc
• Experience of working in secured Azure environments using Azure KeyVaults, Service Principals, and Managed Identities
• Good to have knowledge on Apigee (Googles API Management)
• Ability to interact with Business for requirement gathering and query resolutions
• Working on off shore office based development teams, collaborating within a team environment and participating in typical project lifecycle activities such as requirement analysis, testing and release
• Adherence to organisations Risk & Controls requirements
• Should have skills for Stakeholder management, process adherence, planning & documentations

Key Stakeholder Management Internal

• UK Finance Accounting
• UK Finance Actuarial
• UK Corporate Functions technology

External

• Software Suppliers
• External Consultants

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Educational Qualification Knowledge & Skills:

• Azure Data Factory,
• Azure Data Lake Storage V2
• Azure SQL
• Azure DataBricks
• Pyspark
• Azure DevOps
• Power BI Report
• Confidence & excellent communication

Experience:

• Overall 3-5 years of experience in Azure Data Engineering

Educational Qualification:

• Graduate/Post-graduate. Preferably with specialisation in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering or related discipline Microsoft Azure certification (good to have)

M&G Behaviours relevant to all roles:

• Tell it like it is: Respectfully speaking up to create better ways forward - both direct and empathetic
• Own it now: Putting your name on things with confidence to drive progress and results quickly
• Move it forward together: Forming cross-functional teams to seize the right opportunities and solve real problems 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.