Solution Architect
On site
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
10-03-2025
Job Specifications
With a company culture rooted in collaboration, expertise and innovation, we aim to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors and communities to achieve their greatest potential. Our work is the catalyst that helps others achieve their goals. In short, We Enable Possibility℠.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Good working Knowledge of London Market Insurance, with knowledge of Lloyds of London processes and market place and Experience around London Market Underwriting Technologies & Processes Regularly meets with business and technology leaders to understand and capture all business needs that can be addressed with IT systems. Acts as a visionary to proactively assist in defining direction for IT projects. Establishes and maintains understanding of long term company strategy and oversees design, development and implementation of high level systems architecture that will enable the company to meet the changing industry and competitive demands. Identifies opportunities for improvement in current overall architecture and that of individual systems. Identifies costs savings and evaluates options based on business strategy alignment. Manages the effort to collect and maintain current and future state enterprise architecture models and domain roadmaps. Develops comprehensive technology recommendations and presents to executive management. Reviews project team architectural designs to ensure consistency & alignment with defined target architecture and adherence to established architecture standards. Ensure maintenance of architecture governance program including membership in and presentation to EA committee, reference architectures, action item follow up, application and service inventories, etc. Agree on solution scope, determine and recommend End-to-End solution design that enables the desired business outcome. Ensure that all necessary Architecture Artefacts are consistently created at the right time to a high level of quality and organized and stored using a standard structure and repository.
JOB SPECIFICATIONS:
Knowledge & Skills:
Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation & consultative skills for effective relationships and planning long term projects with senior management. Demonstrated expertise in the implementation, and maintenance of large-scale software systems and defining new architectural models Expert level experience in Software Development using Java and .Net technologies and Agile Practices Experience with Cloud Native Architectures, REST and APIs, Microservices, Spring Boot/Framework, .Net/.Net Core, GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, OpenShift, BPM, SQL, Oracle, NoSQL, Messaging AMQP/Kafka Solid understanding of Private Cloud, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, as well as various Cloud Models (Azure and AWS). Infrastructure architecture and best practice experience a significant plus. Solid understanding of data, analytics, and BI patterns and models – data quality, data modeling, data persistence and caching technology fit for purpose, warehousing, analytics platforms and strategies, BI reporting, etc. Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, automation and containerization technologies. Experience with Agile and Digital transformations Strong problem solving, analytical, and decision making skills and experience Ability to balance between most ideal and most pragmatic solutions that meet the business needs. Must be a team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus. Must be highly reliable and commitment oriented.
Education & Experience:
Required knowledge & skills would typically be acquired through a Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of related experience in software development, systems infrastructure management & architecture design, including project management and business analysis.
Working Conditions/Environment & Physical Demands:
Normal office environment Ability to travel within the UK ~25% of the time
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About the Company
At Arch Insurance, we trade how you want to trade. All our UK regional offices are staffed by empowered underwriters and specialist claims professionals. We also offer the convenience of e-traded solutions through our Arch Online portal. We provide our brokers with high quality service and, as part of Arch Capital Group Ltd., A+ rated security to ensure our relationships are built for the long term. We offer our UK regional brokers a wide range of commercial insurance solutions including: A&H, Casualty, Commercial Combined, ... Know more
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