Life Technology - Technical Lead

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.

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.

Technical Lead

Help us build reliable, modern platforms, and retire fragile legacy for customers planning their financial futures.

At M&G, we’re transforming how we design, build and run digital services for our customers and advisers. We’re investing in AI, engineering excellence, modern platforms and pragmatic standards—so teams can move faster and safer. If you enjoy leading through influence, shaping sound designs end‑to‑end, and leaving things measurably healthier than you found them, we’d love to meet you.

The impact you’ll have

• Lead the tech across a defined area of our estate—guiding end‑to‑end design from discovery to production and clean handover to run teams.
• Replace fragile legacy with supportable, cost‑aware solutions; establish new patterns where none exist and raise the health of the estate (reliability, operability, cost).
• Set direction, not dogma—define pragmatic engineering standards and reusable patterns with non‑functional needs (security, reliability, performance) designed in.
• Enable delivery—remove process/tooling blockers, make clear decisions, and help teams ship with fewer escalations.
• Drive quality & resilience—improve observability, learn from incidents, prioritise defect reduction and fix root causes over workarounds.
• Tackle technical debt—make it visible, get it prioritised, and burn it down.
• Coach others—grow engineers’ judgement and autonomy; contribute to active, outcome‑driven communities of practice.

About you

You’ll thrive here if you:

• Have led technical design on complex initiatives and can “own the problem” from first principles to running software.
• Are passionate about transformation – AI adoption, improving ways of working, tooling and flow to increase team velocity.
• Are fluent in Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, DevOps) and value pairing/mobbing, code reviews and continuous delivery.
• Care deeply about security, quality and operability—and can articulate the business case for doing them well.
• Enjoy mentoring others and engaging in communities to define standards and share learning.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders, balancing trade‑offs and explaining decisions simply.

Our environment (experience in some is plenty; we’ll support you to learn)

• Services & UI: Spring Boot microservices; React for SPAs and our design system.
• Data & Cloud: Azure; Cosmos DB (Mongo API).
• Platforms: Saleforce, Openshift, Azure, Sonata, Smartcomms, dataFactory.
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps (Repos, pipelines).
• Quality & Security: SonarQube, Checkmarx.

How we work

• Engineering culture: supportive, diverse, outcome‑focused; we share patterns and standards through active communities and expect learning to be part of the job.
• Governance that helps: we use pragmatic SDLC/LEAF controls to manage real risk while enabling delivery (not ceremonial sign‑offs).
• Collaboration first: we value clear documentation that helps others operate and evolve what we build—no rubber‑stamping.

What you’ll get

• Meaningful problems at scale, the mandate to modernise, and support to grow.

A competitive package and flexible ways of working, with learning and certification opportunities.

What we offer:

At M&G, we’re committed to helping you thrive and supporting your wellbeing, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, while planning confidently for your future. Our UK benefits include:

• As a savings and Investments firm we are proud to offer a valuable pension scheme of 18%, with 13% made up of Employer Contributions and 5% Employee Contributions. We also offer Share Save and our Share Incentive Plan, together with access to financial wellbeing and support services - to help give you real confidence to put your money to work.

• Enjoy 38 days annual leave including bank holidays, with the opportunity to purchase up to 5 extra days and additional flexibility through our Time Off When You Need It policy – to balance your work and personal commitments.  

• Our market leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - as supporting families is a core aspect of our inclusive culture.

• Health & Protection cover including Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with family options - for peace of mind.

To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G, 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, 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.

M&G is also proud to be a Disability Confident Leader, and we welcome applications from candidates with long-term health conditions, disabilities, or neuro-divergent conditions. 

If you need assistance or an alternative means of applying for a role due to a disability or additional need, please let us know by contacting us at: careers@mandg.com