Lead Solutions Architect: Azure, Applications, Integration, Data, Insurance
This organisation is a leading Specialist insurer based in the city of London, who are underdergoing a major IT transformation - establisinhing an agile framework and specialised product teams across the business.
You will join a specialised Product team as the embedded Lead Solutions Architect, embarking on a transformative period, growing their digital platform & product offerings. Reporting into the Chief Architect, you will take ownership for product solution architecture for the underwriting, actuarial & business functions.
This is a transitional environment, so an agile approach to architecture is a necessity. You will have worked in an Azure environment, with deep knowledge in application architecture and middleware and integrration.
This is the ideal opportunity for a flexible Architect who thrives on developing new solutions for business challenges.
Responsibilities:
* Lead the architecture design for applications, integrations and data solutions that align with business goals and technology strategies.
* Develop and support low-level architecture design for business products
* Develop strong relationships with Data & Analytics, IT and Security and Engineering teams
* Play a leading role in the development of business Architecture Standards and Patterns
* Ensure and maintain Governance standards are adhered to when developing architectural frameworks
Requirements:
* Commercial Insurance or London Markets experience is required
* Experience developing IT architectures across Applications and Data that operate through SaaS
* Demonstratable experience designing & developing Cloud Solution Architecture, preferably Azure
* Ability to work in sprints and adopt an agile approach to architecture design
* Excellent communication, ability to effect change and promote technology solutions across the wider business
Lead Solutions Architect: Azure, Applications, Integrations, Data, Insurance