Technology Internship (Edinburgh)

by M&G plc

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Deadline: 26th November 2021
Salary: £28,000
Length: Internship (1 Month+)
Roles: Customer Service, Information Technology
Location: Scotland
City: Edinburgh

Customer Technology Internship (Edinburgh)

Come join our enthusiastic and vibrant Customer Technology team and gain experience across our modern ecosystem, providing our business with the tools and systems to deliver outstanding products and first class service to our customers.

You will have the opportunity to learn about some of the exciting technologies we’ve been working with recently, for example:

  • Microsoft Azure Cloud
  • Serverless Frameless
  • HD Insight
  • Databricks Analytics platform, Spark, SQL, Python
  • Tensorflow
  • Salesforce
  • React.js
  • Storybook
  • AppDynamics
  • Kubernetes
  • Adobe Experience Manager
  • Adobe Analytics

During the 8 week internship, and you will have the opportunity to work in one of the following teams: Engineering, Delivery, Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), Platform, Business Analysis or Data Analytics.

Every day is different - from running user research on new products that are coming to market; developing customer, advisor and operational experiences; to making new components and releases live in our production environment. As an intern, you will make valuable contributions to your team and will be involved in a variety of tasks.

Each intern will have a buddy from our graduate cohort who will provide informal support and promote integration with the M&G Plc family. You’ll also have the opportunity to attend networking and social events which are essential for promoting the work life balance encouraged at M&G Plc.

What we’ve been doing recently

We’re making a series of significant changes across the Customer & Distribution team to make M&G Plc the best loved and most successful savings and investments business. These changes are part of our ongoing strategy to modernise the business so that we can enhance our reputation for innovation, reduce costs and become a truly digital business.

  • Enabling our teams to deliver at pace and with minimal friction on our secure public cloud flatform, enhancing our CI/CD proposition every day
  • Developing and training natural language conversational interfaces to give our customers a smooth experience, and our sales people a major productivity boost
  • Working in multi-discipline feature teams, supported by skilled and enthusiastic specialist teams of designers, analysts, product managers, user experience specialists and information security experts
  • Ensuring a consistent and enthralling customer experience through our migration to Digital Experience
  • Building in quality, speed and visibility from the start through automation of our software delivery processes
  • Collaborative engagement to deliver the best possible products for our customers and colleagues
  • Sharing a modern journey-led experience with our internal and partner financial advisors, allowing them to spend more time understand their own customers needs and deliver an all-round excellent customer experience
  • Realising a visually appealing customer-facing portal for our pension and savings customers, helping them to understand their assets, projections and options to draw down against their portfolio

What we’re looking for

Be happy to help: We all need help from time to time. Sometimes we don’t know it. We make it a point to look out for each other. Caring for each other and being helpful to one another is the foundation of our culture

Take pride in your work: Our future is fuelled by experiences made with passion and creativity. Passion inspires, motivates and makes magic happen. Big or small changes, they are all worth it.

Collaborate: We work together to achieve the best results and we’re looking for people who thrive as part of a team, who loving sharing their ideas and listening to others.

Adaptable and Innovate: The world of technology is constantly changing; we want people who can bring in new ideas and new ways of thinking; who can help us innovate and grow our business. We value everyone’s contribution and work in an environment that allows everyone to make a difference.

What you can expect

We are a home to people with big smiles and small egos. Be kind, be humble, be supportive and professional – always!

At M&G Plc we work hard to create an environment that enables everyone to flourish and actively encourage diversity across the business. If you share our values, are passionate about technology and are a penultimate year undergraduate headed for a 2:1 at undergraduate degree level, then get in touch to start your M&G Plc journey.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for internships. However, if you're in full-time education in the UK under the Tier 4 (General) category, current regulations may permit you to take on temporary employment during holiday periods or as part of your studies.

At M&G Plc Diversity and Inclusion is a strategic objective. We know that an inclusive environment makes us more accessible and ensures we attract, engage, promote and retain exceptional people. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity/nationally, disability, and we welcome those who have military service or who have taken career breaks. We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles.

About M&G plc

We’re a leading savings and investments business, formed in 2017, through the merger of Prudential plc’s UK and Europe savings and insurance operation and M&G, an asset management company. M&G plc has more than 5.5 million individual customers and clients in 28 countries. In total, we have £339 billion assets under management and administration (HY 2020).

Our growth strategy for the savings and asset management business is to take our range of investment solutions and scale them in our chosen markets. International growth will be focused and accompanied by our customary discipline on capital management.

Prudential UK is one of the UK’s leading Life and Pension companies. In the UK, Prudential manages £51 billion of savings on behalf of individual customers.
M&G Investments has been helping its customers to prosper for nearly nine decades for putting investments to work. Its investment solutions span equities, fixed income, multi asset, cash, private debt, infrastructure and real estate.

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