Technical Solution Architect - Hybrid Working - Outside IR35
Technical Solution Architect - Hybrid Working - Outside IR35
Our client, a global Insurance broker, are currently looking to hire a Technical Solution Architect with Insurance sector experience to join the team on an Outside IR35 basis. This role would be hybrid working with the client site in London.
In this role you will be accountable for the definition and delivery of high-level solution architecture and details design artefacts and manage change governance of the overall architecture for key delivery initiatives.
Key responsibilities:
- Day-to-day management of all architecture activities including coordination between analysis, design and build activities across delivery teams (e.g. delivery work-streams, suppliers, partners etc.)
- Development of high-level and detailed solution architecture documentation to enable consistent communication and common understanding of the overall architecture for senior leadership and delivery teams
- Ensuring development of solution options where required, consistent review of solution options for strategic alignment and rigorous management of key design decisions, working with wider business and IT stakeholders and leveraging existing governance forums
- Provide timely reporting and escalation of architecture activities, architecture risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies for key projects/programmes
- Ensuring timely delivery of high-quality architecture activities and deliverables for the programme
- Liaising with architecture and wider programme and BAU resources for delivery and governance of architecture deliverables
- Acting as the technical and architecture authority on the programme/projects (and wider strategic solutions as required)
- Managing architecture change on the programme/projects and governance of the e2e solution architecture
- Maintaining architecture documentation and architecture plans for the programme
- Providing architecture and technical oversight during delivery ensuring delivery alignment to approved architecture
- Creating and maintaining target, transition-state architecture and associated architecture roadmaps for the programme
Skills and Experience:
- Essential - Expert in Transformation consulting as a Solution Architect
- Essential - Proficient in designing and implementing integrations between enterprise systems using APIs, middleware and legacy platforms.
- Desirable - Experience working in an insurance (preferably insurance broking) environment and good knowledge, understanding of insurance systems (preferably insurance broking platforms)
- Knowledge or good awareness of the London Insurance Market concepts and ways of transacting speciality business
- Experience initiating and providing architecture leadership for large scale business-critical transformation projects
- Good knowledge and awareness of enterprise-grade CRM (Salesforce preferably), Insurance systems.
- Knowledge of working in a regulated environment e.g. FCA, PRA and wider regulatory, compliance environment for global insurance businesses (e.g. GDPR)
- Knowledge of Business Intelligence and Data platform technologies (e.g. Microsoft Fabric, Databricks etc.).
- Good knowledge of technology governance standards
- Good knowledge of technology best practice including SDLC
- Working knowledge of Enterprise and Solution Architecture frameworks and methodologies (e.g. TOGAF)
Please apply!
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.