Senior Solution Architect | Location: UK (Hybrid) | Sector: Specialty Insurance & Reinsurance | Type: Permanent | Senior Leadership
Are you a future‑focused Solution Architect who thrives on tackling complex challenges, modernising legacy ecosystems, and influencing enterprise‑wide technology strategy? A global, financially rock‑solid specialty insurer is expanding its Architecture function and is looking for a Senior Solution Architect to drive major transformation across underwriting, claims, policy administration, and digital customer platforms. This is a role for someone who wants to own the blueprint, champion best practice, and set the direction for a multi‑year modernisation journey.
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
- Enterprise influence – You’ll shape the roadmap for multiple business domains and play a key role in retiring legacy systems and designing modern, modular, cloud‑ready platforms.
- True architecture ownership – From concept to approval, you are the accountable design authority for critical initiatives.
- Innovation‑driven – The organization actively invests in emerging tech, Agile, DevSecOps, and architectural excellence.
- Global exposure – Work closely with a mature enterprise architecture community, sharing patterns, frameworks, and innovation across regions.
- Impact at scale – Your designs will directly influence underwriting efficiency, customer experience, and strategic growth.
What You’ll Lead
- Build system & application roadmaps that transform current-state platforms into cloud‑enabled, future‑proof solutions.
- Create flexible, modular, reusable designs aligned to enterprise standards.
- Provide architecture governance, design assurance and technology oversight.
- Mentor engineering teams, review designs & code, and champion best practice.
- Align tech direction with business outcomes, security standards and global governance.
- Support Agile delivery teams and embed DevSecOps principles into solution design.
- Evaluate new technologies and drive innovation through the organization.
- Collaborate closely with product, infrastructure, engineering & security teams.
- Own all non‑functional requirements and ensure solutions meet operational expectations.
What You Bring
- Deep experience in insurance (Underwriting, Claims, Policy Admin, PAS, portals).
- Architectural leadership across transformation and modernisation programmes.
- Expertise in Cloud, APIs, Microservices, Integration Patterns, Eventing & DevSecOps.
- Experience with custom‑built COTS/MOTS application landscapes.
- Understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF is a plus).
- Strong analytical thinking, communication excellence, and technical authority.
- Ability to mentor teams, challenge assumptions and guide delivery at pace.
- A hands‑on mindset paired with strategic architectural thinking.
- Guidewire or large‑scale policy administration experience is a significant advantage, but not essential.
Who This Role Is Perfect For
- Owning big design problems.
- Influencing senior stakeholders.
- Working across multiple teams & streams.
- Bringing structure, governance & clarity to complex landscapes.
- Balancing legacy modernisation with new tech innovation.
If you’re energised by building the future rather than maintaining the past — this will feel like home.
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