M&G PLC

Senior Cloud Developer

Mumbai Full time

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 group of companies, operating as a Global Capability Centre providing a range of value adding services to the Group since 2003.

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.

M&G Global Services has rapidly transformed itself into a powerhouse of capability that is playing an important role in M&G’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.

                                                                                               

Job Description

Job Title

Senior Cloud Developer

Grade

2B

Level

Experienced Colleague

Job Function

AI & Analytics

Job Sub Function

Asset Management Tech and Change

Reports to

AVP – Technical Business Analyst

Location

Mumbai

Business Area

M&G Global Services

Overall Job Purpose

We are seeking a “Cloud Developer” with the right blend Azure and database development skills, to support the development of operational activities behind a powerful Analytics team.

They will have the opportunity to put their technical, creativity, and problem-solving skills to regular use by continuously delivering changes, processes improvements, alongside tasks, projects, and activities.

Primary Key Responsibilities (Top 3-5 KRA)

The role is suitable for someone who is able to consistently deliver output; from urgent bug fixes, to longer term enhancements, someone who is capable of managing multiple asks and complete end-to-end development work on a sophisticated production system that is undergoing regular change.

They will flourish in a process-driven environment, is able to complete and manage various tasks, diagnose and troubleshoot issues, and ensure all processes are completed on a daily basis to a high standard.

They will also use their technical skills to improve processes, build new requirements to prescribed standards, amongst other responsibilities.

Outside of operational tasks, they will get to take part in projects, new enhancements and other cloud-based development work that would be beneficial to the team and wider department.

Key Stakeholder Management

Internal

M&G Investment

External

NAA

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Educational Qualification

Knowledge & Skills (Must Have) :

  • Excellent SQL skills
    • Understanding of relational databases and schemas
    • Creating stored procedures from scratch
    • Debugging production SQL errors
    • Identifying, testing, and promoting fixes to SQL scripts
  • Microsoft Azure experience
    • Azure Data Factory (creating, running, troubleshooting pipelines)
    • Azure Data Lake
    • DevOps - Releases and pipelines
    • Desirable: Application Insights / Azure Dashboards
  • Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and organisational ability
  • Experience developing code to a prescribed standard for peer review in London
  • Communication with external stakeholders, and with engineers and end-users
  • Self-starter, can operate independently without awaiting instructions
  • Thrives working in a collaborative and team environment

Strongly desirable

  • Microsoft SQL Server experience – bonus if DBA experience
  • Prior engineering experience – working in DevOps and CI/CD
  • JIRA ticket management
  • IT competent
  • Knowledge of financial instruments either through study or work
  • Incident management (can take the lead for live system incidents)

Desirable but not necessary

  • Good Python experience (familiar with pandas and pyodbc essential)
  • JavaScript or other front end UI development, e.g. React

Experience:

  • 7+ years of total experience in data/cloud
  • Microsoft Azure experience (2+ year)
  • Excellent SQL skills (4+ years Microsoft SQL Server full ETL experience, confident and independent)
  • Knowledge of financial instruments (1+ years) either through study or work
  • Good Excel skills (3+ years)
  • Python experience desirable

Educational Qualification:

  • Graduate in any discipline

M&G Behaviours relevant to all roles:

Inspire Others: support and encourage each other, creating an environment where everyone can contribute and succeed

Embrace Change: be open to change, willing to be challenged and able to adapt quickly and imaginatively to new ideas

Deliver Results: focus on performance, set high standards and deliver with energy and determination

Keep it simple: cut through complexity, keep the outcome in mind, keeping your approach simple and adapting your message to every audience

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.