Solutions Architect

Insurance Solution Architect

💰 £550-575/day (Inside IR35) | 📅 12-Month Contract

📍 Milton Keynes (2 days onsite)

Our client is seeking an experienced Insurance Solution Architect to support large-scale banking and insurance integration initiatives within a complex enterprise landscape. As an Insurance Solution Architect, you will lead the design and governance of end-to-end enterprise solutions across banking and insurance domains. You’ll be responsible for translating business requirements into scalable architecture designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, integration patterns, and long-term architecture strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and govern end-to-end solution architectures across banking and insurance platforms
• Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Define logical architecture components, integrations, interfaces, and system interactions
• Support third-party integrations across enterprise banking ecosystems
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles and governance standards
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure technical designs align with approved architecture
• Conduct architecture reviews and peer reviews to ensure architectural integrity and compliance
• Support decommissioning, archival, and modernisation initiatives across legacy environments
• Act as a trusted architecture advisor to CIO and technology leadership functions
• Balance short-term business objectives with long-term architecture strategy and transformation goals

Required Skills & Experience

• Significant experience working as a Solution Architect within complex financial services environments
• Strong understanding of insurance integrations within banking landscapes
• Experience designing scalable enterprise solutions across applications, integrations, and platforms
• Strong experience working with third-party integrations and enterprise system interoperability
• Experience creating practical and delivery-focused architectures aligned with enterprise IT standards
• Strong understanding of architecture governance and solution assurance processes
• Experience working with engineering teams to align implementation with enterprise architecture
• Knowledge of microservices, API integration patterns, and cloud concepts
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement capability
• Ability to operate independently within fast-paced transformation environments
• Strong ownership, initiative, and delivery-focused mindset
• Evidence of thought leadership and architecture governance experience

Desirable Experience

• Knowledge of:
• BIAN
• TOGAF
• ArchiMate
• C4 modelling
• Experience with architecture tooling such as Avolution Abacus
• Familiarity with cloud concepts including AWS
• Exposure to large-scale banking transformation programmes
• Experience within global banking or enterprise insurance environments

Please can you apply with your CV and I'll be in touch, thank you!