AWS Solution Architect
Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
07-04-2025
Job Specifications
Position: AWS Solutions Architect
location: London Hybrid (2 days a week onsite in clients office)
Type: Contract (Inside IR35)
Job Description:
Essential
Producing and owning the end-to-end architectures for multiple Regulatory Risk and Group Functions portfolio initiatives spanning disparate software and infrastructure components including cloud architectures
Driving key architecture decisions for projects and aligning stakeholders to a proposed approach
Working with global development teams to ensure detailed component-level design corresponds to high-level architecture
Working with the Senior and Enterprise Architects to ensure that data and functional architectures adhere to the architecture principles and support the target state vision for the enterprise globally
Clearly communicating the architecture key design decisions and approaches on assigned projects to key stakeholders project bodies relevant governance assurance forums including the Architecture Review Board
Collaborate and work with Product Owners Product Analysts and Developers to help translate desired business outcomes into technology solutions thus achieving the LII technology outcomes
Leading facilitating and participating in detailed design reviews and ensuring that all components of the solution are aligned to the target state vision
Working with other Solution Architects and Technical Leads to ensure alignment of high level architectures across Global Risk Solutions
Modelling current and future state architectures in an architecture modelling tool eg LeanIX
Line Management for a team of Technical Leads
Ability to effectively collaborate with all levels of the organization with diverse backgrounds
Proven experience with agile practices and expectations
Good knowledge of Data Architecture concepts management security governance database integration quality
Contribute to Portfolio level 306090day planning sessions
Cloud certified AWS
Highly developed negotiation consensus building influencing skills facilitation and the adaptability to respond to change quickly
Highly developed oral and written communication skills strong presentation skills Ability to effectively collaborate with all levels of the organization
Adherence to all relevant regulatory requirements forms part of your role and the demonstration of behaviours as set out in the Conduct Risk Policy as they relate to your role is core to LSMs commitment to our Liberty Values placing customers at the centre of our business and behaving with integrity LSM expects you to understand your responsibilities relating to all regulatory and internal requirements and to proactively demonstrate compliance with these requirements and behaviours at all times These
Solvency II fair treatment of customers Financial Crime Data Protection Conflicts of Interest and Whistleblowing
Desirable
Experience working within Actuarial Capital Modelling and Reserving Exposure Risk Management and Regulatory Risk spaces highly desirable
Experience working with emerging technologies such as AI within the insurance domain desirable
Experience working in the Insurance domain with experience of working on one or multiple Insurance specific solutions is highly desirable We will however also consider applications who have worked with finance clients
Skills
Mandatory Skills : Integration Architecture, Integration Pattern
About the Company
Pracyva is a global firm focusing across IT Consulting, Outsourced IT Managed Services, Transformation servcies with core objective to put our clients' needs at the centre of all we do to help them shape, build and perpetuate a reputation for excellence in the global markets they serve. Disruption to traditional approach, applying emerging technologies and methodologies coupled with human values to achieve best in class result is an nonnegotiable principle engraved in our founding charter. Our personal commitment to client ... Know more
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