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Solution Architect (Java, Kafka, Camunda BPM) InsureTech
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Solutions Architect – InsureTech Applications
Location: London (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: Up to £110,000 base + bonus + comprehensive benefits
The Opportunity
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Solutions Architect to play a key role in building the next generation of InsureTech products for a global technology and insurance services organisation.
Working within a newly established product engineering function, you will help define the architecture, technical direction, and delivery of modern insurance platforms that solve complex business challenges for insurers, brokers, and MGAs. You'll collaborate with product managers, engineering teams, business stakeholders, and enterprise architects to deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions that are secure, resilient, and built for growth.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys combining hands-on technical expertise with architectural leadership in a product-led environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Define end-to-end solution architectures for modern InsureTech products and digital platforms.
- Lead architectural design across multiple product workstreams from concept through implementation.
- Translate business requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
- Work closely with engineering teams to ensure architectural standards and best practices are followed.
- Drive API-first, event-driven and microservices-based architecture principles.
- Champion cloud-native application design, automation, security, and resilience.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams to improve CI/CD, deployment automation, and operational excellence.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to the technology landscape.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Engage with business and technical stakeholders to align technology with strategic objectives.
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Required Experience
- Proven experience as a Solutions Architect, Technical Architect or Lead Engineer within an enterprise software or InsureTech environment.
- Strong software engineering background with extensive hands-on Java development experience (Java 17 or later).
- Experience designing and delivering distributed, cloud-native applications.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture and domain-driven design.
- Experience implementing workflow orchestration using Camunda.
- Strong knowledge of Apache Kafka and event-driven architectures.
- Experience designing RESTful APIs and integrating complex enterprise systems.
- Strong understanding of containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience working within modern DevOps environments, including CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Strong understanding of application security, observability, monitoring, and performance optimisation.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
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Desirable Experience
- Previous experience delivering technology solutions within the insurance sector (Commercial, P&C, Specialty or Reinsurance).
- Knowledge of insurance policy administration, underwriting, claims or distribution platforms.
- Experience with BPMN modelling and business process automation.
- Exposure to event sourcing and CQRS patterns.
- Experience with Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
- Experience working within Agile and Scrum delivery environments.
- TOGAF or cloud architecture certifications would be advantageous.
What's on Offer
- Salary up to £110,000
- Annual performance bonus
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Hybrid working in London
- Opportunity to shape a brand-new suite of InsureTech products from the ground up
- Work alongside highly experienced product, architecture and engineering teams
- Excellent career progression within a rapidly growing international organisation
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