Enterprise Architect (City of London)

Lockton is establishing Enterprise Architecture capabilities to enable a Global Infrastructure Operations and Security model, moving to the Cloud and extending/transforming its Digital capabilities.

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect to drive these initiatives forward by defining and documenting the architectural roadmap for the UK/EU business, supporting the implementation of the target state application landscape, guiding infrastructure engineering and application teams, and producing scalable, high-performing, and resilient designs for new or improved services.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Global Enterprise Architecture team to define and document the architectural roadmap for UK/EU and international operations, ensuring alignment on standards and processes.

• Define and support implementation of the target application landscape, integrating systems and leveraging Lockton capabilities (APIs), with a strong understanding of business functions and improvement opportunities.

• Guide infrastructure and application teams on rationalization and cloud migration (Azure), providing architectural oversight.

• Develop companywide standards and best practices for engineering complex, large-scale technology solutions.

• Specify technologies, application architectures, and data structures to support internal assets.

• Deliver secure, scalable, high-performing software solutions and support Application Managers in product roadmap development.

• Manage architecture exceptions, ensuring documentation, approval, and remediation where possible.

• Monitor application performance against non-functional requirements and collaborate on product availability and continuity.

• Help create and govern compliance with Hybrid Cloud standards and optimize cloud architecture for security, cost, and stability.

• Develop cloud playbooks/runbooks in partnership with US and international teams, providing guidance to development and vendor teams.

• Analyze and recommend technical approaches for cloud development and integration challenges, embedding security controls with InfoSec.

• Support vendor/product cloud selections, including RFPs and security/compliance audits.

• Lead cloud architecture for UK products with plans to extend internationally, enabling application and data teams to utilize cloud benefits.

• Participate in architectural governance and collaborate with PMO and delivery teams to ensure enterprise consistency, speed to market, and impact assessment of project scope changes.

Requirements:

• Previously held Architect role and demonstrable experience with Cloud preferably Azure

• Prior work experience in an insurance or technology field preferred

• Working understanding of the Cloud and cloud-based solutions

• Proficiency with multiple application delivery models including Agile, iterative and waterfall

• Advanced skills in developing tools, frameworks and processes intended to maximise software quality and minimize time-to-delivery

• Azure Cloud Architect Certification

• Strong experience with PaaS, IaaS & PaaS services; understands leading practices and adoption patterns

• Experience automating the provisioning and automation of your architectures and solutions (infrastructure as Code)

• Ability to build effective relationships across all levels both internal and external to the organisation

• High levels of organisational skills and self-motivation