Solutions Architect – Camunda, Java

Company: Sanderson
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Location: London
Job Description:

A leading Global Solutions & Services provider to the Insurance market is looking for a seasoned Solution Architect to partner closely with Product Leadership and shape complex, enterprise-grade solutions across multiple delivery towers.

If you thrive on turning business outcomes into robust, scalable architectures—and you’re hands-on enough to get into the detail when needed—this one’s for you.

What you’ll be doing

  • Owning solution design across multi-tower / multi-service initiatives, from discovery through delivery.
  • Leading customer discovery to understand operational processes, pain points and desired outcomes—then translating that into pragmatic designs aligned to product capability and roadmap.
  • Planning build activities with stakeholders, breaking requirements into deliverable features/modules for engineering teams.
  • Ensuring engineering best practice: BDD focus, code quality, unit testing, performance benchmarking and troubleshooting.
  • Bringing industry best practices into design and delivery, with occasional involvement in pre-sales (demos/proposals).

Essential skills (what we need you to bring)

  • Kafka + strong understanding of Kafka architecture
  • Experience of hands-on enterprise software engineering (design + coding).
  • OO design + data modelling with UML; strong grasp of functional & non-functional architecture constraints.
  • Tooling: Git/GitHub/BitBucket, CI/CD (e.g., TeamCity/Jenkins), JUnit 5.
  • API-first mindset with OpenAPI (OAS); security exposure to OIDC and OAuth2.
  • Comfortable working in Agile environments; familiarity with coding assistant tools / GenAI / agentic approaches.

Desirable (nice to have)

  • Insurance domain knowledge and/or ACORD standards exposure.
  • Integration tooling such as Apache Camel; ESB/EAI; API gateway/management platforms.
  • Cloud: Azure/AWS/GCP; containers and DevOps practices (Kubernetes/Docker).
  • App servers (Tomcat/JBoss/WebSphere) and observability (Elastic/Logstash/Kibana).
  • Consulting-style stakeholder engagement and presentation skills.

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Posted: May 12th, 2026