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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Digital Platform Proposition Architect - **Company:** Prudential plc - **Location:** Edinburgh, UK - **Salary:** £48,949.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Software as a Service, Dataspaces, Digital Architecture - **Published:** September 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5877270713 ## About the Role * An understanding of how customer and adviser needs, proposition design, digital experience and platform capability combine to create a viable proposition. * The ability to structure ambiguous problems, weigh evidence and turn complexity into clear choices and recommendations. * Sound commercial judgement, balancing value, cost, reuse, risk and future flexibility. * Strong commercial, proposition and operating-model understanding, combined with the platform and technology fluency to challenge design, integration and vendor choices credibly. * The ability to influence across business, technology and vendors through judgement, evidence and constructive challenge rather than formal authority. * A view beyond an individual programme, identifying patterns, dependencies and opportunities across propositions. * An understanding of how regulatory and market change, including Consumer Duty, affects proposition and platform choices. Experience & Knowledge Essential: * Experience applying proposition and architecture thinking to connect business needs with platform capability, gained through platform or proposition consultancy, solution design, proposition or product strategy, or a related strategic role. * Strong practical knowledge of Sonata and how it is configured, integrated and used to support life and pensions propositions. * Experience shaping the use of a core or SaaS platform across products, propositions or services, rather than solving only for one delivery at a time. * A strong record of framing complex problems, assessing options and making pragmatic recommendations on standard capability, adaptation and reuse. * Experience influencing decisions across business, product, technology and external platform or vendor partners. * Experience of working in a regulated financial services environment, with an understanding of Consumer Duty or equivalent customer-outcome requirements. * Clear written and verbal communication, with the confidence to work across specialist and senior stakeholder groups. Desirable: * Experience gained within a platform provider, systems integrator or consultancy delivering life, pensions or wealth platforms. * Knowledge of UK life, pensions and investment propositions across advised and direct channels. * Experience influencing a strategic vendor relationship or product roadmap. * Familiarity with digital delivery approaches. Department and team: Digital Experience - Digital Architecture ## Description As a Digital Platform Proposition Architect, you will bring platform expertise into the development of our digital propositions from the outset. Working across proposition, experience, operating model and technology, you will develop a clear view of where and how our core platforms should be used, what they can enable, and the choices needed to create propositions that can operate and scale effectively. Sonata will be your immediate focus. You will advise on questions such as which needs should be met within the platform or elsewhere, what can be reused across propositions and when M&G should adopt standard platform capability rather than customise. Over time, the role will extend across other strategic platforms and the wider digital ecosystem. You will work with colleagues across proposition, product, design and technology, as well as our platform partners, using your knowledge and judgement to provide informed recommendations, challenge constructively and influence direction. You may have built this experience in platform or proposition consultancy, solution design, proposition or product strategy, a platform provider, systems integrator or a strategic business analysis role. Your current title matters less than your ability to understand how platforms enable a business, make sense of complex choices and communicate confidently across business and technology. This is a business-led role requiring strong platform and technology fluency, suited to someone who enjoys moving between strategic questions and the practical detail needed to make good decisions. Key Responsibilities * Develop and communicate a forward-looking view of how Sonata and other core platforms should be used and how they should evolve across digital propositions, aligned to the wider Digital Experience strategy. * Work as part of digital proposition development from its earliest stages, helping proposition, experience, operating model and platform capability come together before delivery commitments are made. * Turn proposition and operating-model needs into clear choices about standard capability, configuration, customisation, integration and reuse. * Apply learning across programmes and identify where platform capability, integrations and proven approaches can be reused. * Provide informed recommendations and constructive challenge at investment, design and governance decision points, influencing direction through evidence, expertise and judgement. * Develop a cross-platform view of how Sonata and other platforms work within the wider digital and data ecosystem, identifying the capabilities, dependencies and choices relevant to the future digital proposition strategy. * Use knowledge of the Sonata roadmap, market practice and M&G's future needs to influence platform choices and contribute to the strategic vendor relationship. ## Related Videos - [Beyond the Hype: Building Trustworthy and Reliable LLM Applications with Guardrails](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1594-beyond-the-hype-building-trustworthy-and-reliable-llm-applications-with-guardrails) - [Harnessing the Power of Open Source's Newest Technologies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1448-harnessing-the-power-of-open-source-s-newest-technologies) - [Fireside Chat with Sir Tim Berners-Lee](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/595-fireside-chat-with-sir-tim-berners-lee) - [Stop Renaming Teams, Start Product Thinking: A PM's Guide to Platform-as-a-Product](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100342-stop-renaming-teams-start-product-thinking-a-pm-s-guide-to-platform-as-a-product) - [Beyond micro-services, embrace composable architecture !](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1188-beyond-micro-services-embrace-composable-architecture) - [Fleet Management - Reinvented](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/473-fleet-management-reinvented) ## Related Articles - [Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. 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