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 organisation 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 As Senior Solution Architect, you will:
- 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 organisation
- Collaborate closely with product, infrastructure, engineering & security teams
- Own all non-functional requirements and ensure solutions meet operational expectations
What You Bring This role will suit an architect with:
- 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 Architects who enjoy: 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 innovationIf you're energised by building the future rather than maintaining the past - this will feel like home.Please apply now for immediate consideration