Lead Engineer - Data
About the job
- Proven experience leading a team of data engineers, providing technical guidance, and ensuring alignment with agreed architectural principles.
- Experience designing and implementing data engineering, ingestion, and transformation functions using Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks.
- Experience migrating on-premises data warehouses to data platforms on Azure cloud.
- Experience implementing Lakehouse and data warehouse solutions using modern data platform architecture.
- Experience with capacity planning and performance tuning of Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks pipelines.
- Experience working in secured Azure environments using Azure Key Vaults, service principals, and managed identities.
- Experience working in offshore office-based development teams and participating in project lifecycle activities such as requirements analysis, testing, and release.
- Skills in stakeholder management, process adherence, planning, and documentation.
- Ability to interact with business stakeholders for requirements gathering and query resolution.
- Ability to maintain and enhance assigned controls to support the overall control environment, customer outcomes, and reduction of operational risk.
- Lead data-engineering projects to build and operationalize business data solutions using Azure services and custom solutions.
- Design and implement data engineering, ingestion, and transformation functions using Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks.
- Provide technical guidance to data engineers and ensure alignment with agreed architectural principles.
- Collaborate within development teams and participate in requirements analysis, testing, and release activities.
- Interact with business stakeholders for requirements gathering and query resolution.
About the company
M&G is a savings and investments company that manages money for individuals and institutions. It offers a range of investment products, including mutual funds, where many investors pool their money to buy a fixed mix of assets chosen by the fund manager. The funds are then managed to try to grow wealth and provide long-term returns, with investors’ money divided into shares or units based on the fund’s rules. M&G differentiates itself through its long history as an asset manager, its status as an independently listed company after the demerger from Prudential, and its focus on serving the UK and European markets with a broad lineup of funds and investment strategies. Its goal is to help people save and invest for the long term by providing access to professionally managed portfolios and investment options that suit different risk tolerances and goals.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
1931
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- H1 2026 net inflows hit £2.4 billion, with £1.0 billion added in July.
- AUM rose to £387 billion by June 2026, up from £374 billion.
- M&G launched a £10 billion note program in May 2026, expanding funding flexibility.
What critics are saying
- UK ground-rent reforms cut H1 2026 profits by £325 million, hitting statutory earnings.
- Citywire reported October 2025 adviser-sales job cuts, signaling distribution cost pressure.
- Daiichi’s equity-method affiliate status ties M&G’s strategy to one concentrated partner.
What makes M&G unique
- Daiichi Life bought 15.7% in September 2026, validating M&G’s dual-model platform.
- M&G launched BPA+ in February 2026, selling £1.7 billion by September.
- M&G’s capital-light earnings reached 80% in H1 2026, sharpening resilience.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Life Insurance
Parental Leave
Flexible Work Hours
Paid Vacation
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-12%M&G has launched a private credit long-term asset fund (LTAF) with £74m of initial commitments. The fund targets UK defined contribution (DC) pension schemes seeking more private markets exposure following the Mansion House Accord. It will channel capital into businesses and projects across the UK and Europe, covering corporate lending and the financing of infrastructure, real estate and other assets. The initial sum includes capital from M&G's £138bn with-profits fund. "Our first LTAF brings to DC pension schemes a private credit capability that M&G has delivered to defined benefit pension schemes and other institutional investors for more than 25 years," said Neil Godfrey, global head of client group at M&G Investments. The fund sits within M&G's £28bn private and structured credit platform, part of its £83bn private markets business.
Five entities sold an 11.05% stake in Sedemac Mechatronics for ₹1,468.83 crore, while domestic and foreign institutional investors bought shares.
Milton Keynes-based Envisics announced it closed its Series C funding round at $100M (approximately €93M). The dynamic holographic technology company previously secured $50M in March, led by Hyundai Mobis, with participation from InMotion Ventures and Stellantis Ventures. M&G Investments led the latest tranche, with existing investor Van Tuyl Companies participating. The funds will accelerate product development and international expansion. Envisics develops holographic technologies for augmented reality heads-up displays (AR-HUDs) in vehicles. The technology projects information onto windscreens whilst adapting to ambient light changes and consuming 50 per cent less power than conventional systems. The company's investor roster now includes Tarsadia Investments, GM Ventures, Hyundai Mobis, InMotion Ventures, Stellantis Ventures, SAIC Motors, Van Tuyl Companies, and M&G Investment.
Pixxel, the planetary infrastructure company, today announced the close of its $100 million Series C funding round, co-led by Temasek and Seraphim, with participation from existing investors. The round brings Pixxel’s total funding to $195 million and signals the company's next phase of growth as it broadens its role across the space-tech value chain.
M&G Investments has launched the M&G (Lux) Fixed Maturity Bond Fund IG 2031, a five-year actively managed fixed-maturity bond fund designed to offer access to euro-denominated income. The strategy will invest at least 60% of its portfolio in investment grade government and corporate debt securities to maintain an average BBB rating, whilst the remaining 40% will be allocated to high-yield bonds. The fund will selectively use credit default swaps to enhance the portfolio's return profile. The fund will be actively managed with a "buy and watch" approach by M&G's co-head of Macro Credit Stefan Isaacs, alongside Matthew Russell, Carlo Putti, and Anjulie Rusius. This launch expands M&G's fixed-maturity bond fund range, which has attracted €1.9 billion across eight launches over the past three years.