Analytics Engineer

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.

Job Description

Job Title

Analytics Engineer

Grade

2C

Level

Colleague

Job Function

Asset management Tech and Change

Job Sub Function

Technology

Reports to

AVP – AI and Analytics

Location

Mumbai

Business Area

M&G India

Overall Job Purpose

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.
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.

The Role:
We are seeking a “Analytics Engineer” with the right blend of cloud, data, analytics and technical skills, in order to run and manage the mechanics and core operational activities behind a powerful Analytics team.

Alongside this, they will have the opportunity to put their technical knowledge, creativity, and problem-solving skills to regular use by continuously seeking ways to improve systems, alongside various other tasks, projects, and activities.

Primary Key Responsibilities

• The role is suitable for someone who flourishes in a self-driven environment, is able to complete and manage various tasks, diagnose and troubleshoot issues, and complete their work to a high standard. They will be responsible in ensuring all day to day work is completed to a good-standard and resolve any issues they face.

• They will also use their technical skills to improve processes, build new requirements to prescribed standards, amongst other responsibilities. A curious self-starter will flourish in this environment as they are free to identify and deliver any work of value with respect to their team.

• 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.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Educational Qualification

Required Knowledge & Skills:

• Snowflake experience
• Strong Python skills
• Confident in SQL, such as creating stored procedures from scratch
• Experience developing code to a prescribed standard for peer review
• Debugging production errors, root cause analysis, and incident management
• Understanding of data models
• Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and organisational ability
• Communication with stakeholders, engineers and end-users
• Self-starter, can operate independently without awaiting instructions
• Thrives working in a collaborative and team environment

Strongly desirable

• Microsoft Azure experience
• Microsoft SQL Server experience
• Databricks experience
• Pandas and pyodbc experience
• JIRA and Confluence
• DevOps/Git
• IT competent
• Knowledge of financial instruments, either through study or work

Desirable

• Azure Data Factory (creating, running, troubleshooting pipelines)
• Prior engineering experience, CI/CD, releases and pipelines
• SQL Server DBA experience
• Logic Apps, Function Apps, Blob Storage, Orchestration
• JavaScript or other front end UI development
• Automation related experience
• Snowflake experience

Experience:

• 5+ years of total experience in data and cloud related roles
• Microsoft Azure experience (2+ years)
• Excellent SQL skills (4+ years full ETL experience, confident and independent)
• Databricks (1+ year)
• Strong Python experience (3+ years, familiar with pandas and pyodbc essential)
• Knowledge of financial instruments (1+ years) either through study or work
• Good Excel skills (3+ years)
• VBA desirable (1+ year)
• Dashboard building desirable (1+ year in PowerBI/Spotfire etc.)

Educational Qualification:

• Graduate in any discipline, but preference for IT or Finance related

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.