Michael James Associates
Solutions Architect
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Solutions Architect – Insurance Technology
Location: UK / Europe
Working Pattern: Hybrid – 3 days in the office, 2 days remote
Sector: Insurance / Financial Services
We are working with a leading global insurance organisation that is going through a major technology transformation and is looking to appoint an experienced Senior Solutions Architect to join its architecture function.
This is a senior technical role for an architect who can operate across enterprise, application and integration architecture, while remaining close enough to the technology to make informed technical decisions and provide meaningful guidance to development teams.
The organisation is investing heavily in modern architecture, APIs, automation, AI and event-driven technologies, making this an excellent opportunity for an experienced architect to play a significant role in shaping its future technology landscape.
The Role
As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will play a key role in the design and implementation of complex technology solutions across the organisation.
- You will work closely with business stakeholders, architects, development teams and technology leadership to translate business requirements into robust, scalable and sustainable technology solutions.
- You will be involved in architectural strategy, design governance, technology roadmaps, solution design and the adoption of modern technologies and architectural patterns.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead or contribute to the development of solutions, technology roadmaps and architectural recommendations.
- Design and implement complex application and technology architectures.
- Provide technical leadership across major transformation initiatives.
- Lead or participate in architecture and design governance processes.
- Provide architecture guidance to development teams throughout the SDLC.
- Develop and influence technology strategies across applications and technology domains.
- Help drive the adoption of API-led, service-based and event-driven architectures.
- Support increased automation across the technology estate.
- Work closely with other architects, engineers, development teams and technology stakeholders.
- Engage with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into effective IT solutions.
- Own architectural deliverables, including technical evaluations and Proofs of Concept.
- Contribute to technology standards, reference architectures, best practices and guidelines.
- Support application stability, performance and remediation initiatives.
- Participate in vendor and product evaluations where required.
- Identify and assess emerging technologies and their potential application within the business.
- Influence technical direction across a complex, matrixed organisation.
- Support wider enterprise architecture initiatives and Centres of Excellence.
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Technical Environment
The successful candidate will ideally have strong experience across multiple technologies and architectural patterns, including:
- Solution / Enterprise Architecture
- Application Architecture
- Integration Architecture
- API Architecture
- REST / SOAP / XML
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- Event-driven architecture
- Java / J2EE -.NET
- Spring and related application frameworks
- Web application development
- Middleware technologies
- Relational databases / SQL
- Data warehousing and ETL
- Application integration
- Performance engineering
- Cloud technologies
- Modern distributed architectures
You don't need to have worked with every technology listed above. We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate strong architectural fundamentals and genuine technical depth across multiple technologies.
Insurance Experience
Experience within the insurance industry would be highly advantageous.
Exposure to the London Market / Lloyd's, insurance platforms, complex insurance applications or large-scale insurance transformation programmes would be particularly valuable.
What We're Looking For
We're looking for a technically credible architect who can operate comfortably between technology, architecture and business stakeholders.
You'll ideally have:
- Significant experience in a Solutions Architect, Senior Architect, Application Architect or similar role.
- Strong experience across multiple technologies and architectural approaches.
- Proven experience designing complex technology solutions.
- Strong API and integration architecture experience.
- Experience with modern application and service-based architectures.
- Experience working with cloud technologies.
- Strong understanding of enterprise and application architecture.
- Experience providing architectural direction to development teams.
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience influencing technical decisions within a matrix organisation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- The confidence to challenge existing approaches and introduce better architectural solutions.
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Insurance experience is highly desirable.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal person will have progressed from a strong software engineering / development / technical background into senior architecture, meaning they can operate at a strategic level without losing their technical credibility.
We're particularly interested in people who can talk in detail about architectures they've personally designed, the technical decisions they've made, the challenges they've encountered and how they've solved them.
This isn't a role for someone who has simply adopted the Architect title without significant hands-on technical architecture experience.
What You'll Get
- Hybrid working – 3 days in the office / 2 days remote
- Opportunity to work on major technology transformation within a leading global insurance organisation
- Significant exposure to modern architecture, APIs, automation, AI and event-driven technology
- Senior-level influence across technology strategy and transformation
- Excellent benefits package
- Opportunity to work alongside experienced architecture and engineering professionals
If you're an experienced Senior Solutions Architect looking for an opportunity to work on complex, high-impact technology transformation within the insurance sector, we'd be very interested in speaking with you.
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