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Senior Solution Architect
London (Hybrid)
FULL TIME - £120,000
MUST HAVE 6+ years' experience designing and delivering architecture solutions within core insurance platforms.
We're looking for an experienced Senior Solution Architect to join a growing architecture team, where you'll play a key role in shaping technology strategy and delivering innovative solutions across a complex insurance environment.
Working closely with business stakeholders, delivery teams and technical specialists, you'll lead the design of scalable, secure and future-ready solutions that support strategic transformation initiatives. This is an excellent opportunity for an architect who enjoys influencing technology direction, driving best practice and delivering business value through modern architecture.
What You'll Be Doing
As a Senior Solution Architect, you will:
- Develop application and technology roadmaps to support transformation and migration programmes.
- Design flexible, scalable and reusable solution architectures aligned with enterprise standards and business objectives.
- Take ownership of solution design, ensuring stakeholder approval and governance sign-off.
- Collaborate with business and change teams to define target operating models and develop business cases for technology initiatives.
- Support requirements gathering and business process optimisation, maximising the use of core platforms while minimising unnecessary custom development.
- Champion architecture governance, design patterns and technology standards.
- Promote Agile delivery and DevSecOps practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Work closely with technical leads and development teams to review designs, provide architectural guidance, support code quality and performance optimisation.
- Identify technical risks and define appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to recommend innovative, cost-effective solutions.
- Produce high-quality architecture documentation for governance and delivery teams.
- Contribute to architecture repositories, reusable services and enterprise technology standards.
- Act as the bridge between business and IT teams, mentoring colleagues and encouraging collaboration across programmes.
- Partner with programme managers and delivery leads to ensure solution designs are practical, achievable and aligned with project objectives.
- Define and oversee non-functional requirements, including security, resilience, scalability and performance.
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About You
You'll be an experienced Solution Architect with a strong background in enterprise architecture and insurance technology. You'll be comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders, leading technical discussions and translating business requirements into practical technology solutions.
You'll bring:
- Proven experience across the insurance lifecycle, including areas such as underwriting, claims, policy administration and billing.
- Extensive experience delivering core insurance platform projects, ideally including Guidewire, across both greenfield implementations and transformation programmes.
- Experience designing integrated solutions involving document management, ERP platforms and customer or broker portals.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and Agile delivery methodologies.
- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF (certification desirable).
- Deep knowledge of modern architecture principles including:
- Cloud technologies
- Microservices
- API-led architecture
- Event-driven integration
- Service-oriented architecture
- Experience creating enterprise application roadmaps and future-state architecture strategies.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor technical teams and influence architectural decisions.
- Excellent analytical, communication, documentation and stakeholder management skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
- 6+ years' experience designing and delivering architecture solutions within core insurance platforms.
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Why Join?
This is an opportunity to work on large-scale transformation programmes within a collaborative, forward-thinking technology environment. You'll have the chance to influence strategic technology decisions, work with modern cloud-based architectures and help shape the future of enterprise solutions.
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