Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: Permanent
Location: Gloucester
Job Ref: 205039
About the role
Benefact Group are looking for a Solution Architect to join our Gloucester office.
The architecture team is continuing to grow at Benefact Group and is seeking a highly skilled Solution Architect. You will be responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation of comprehensive solutions that align with our business goals and technology strategy, working with a variety of business and technical stakeholders.
Why join us?
Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK’s 15 Best Big Companies to Work For in 2025, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group — where all profits go to charity and good causes.
What you’ll be doing
- Creating technology roadmaps and reference models at a business domain level
- Providing architectural guidance and support to technology procurement
- Producing platform and solution designs and supporting these through delivery
- Contributing to architectural governance, standards and patterns
- Supporting the architecture function through collaboration with other architects
What you’ll need to have
- Experience in solution architecture
- Experience of working within a regulated environment/financial services (ideally insurance industry)
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure (preferred), AWS, Google Cloud), microservices and event-driven architecture
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
What makes you stand out
- Experience in design and implementing complex technical solution in insurance
- Proficiency in architecture frameworks and methodologies
- Experience in setting up an architecture function
What we offer
- A competitive salary – let’s discuss it
- Hybrid working
- Group Personal Pension – up to 12% employer contribution
- Generous annual bonus scheme: on-target bonus between 7.5% and 30%
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
- An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
- £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
- Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Full study support to gain professional qualifications
- Access to virtual GP
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
Hear from the hiring manager
“The architecture team is a new function for Benefact Group – we’re a small team of enterprise, solution and data architects working on some pretty exciting business transformation. This is a real opportunity to come in and help develop the function.”
We welcome applications from everyone.
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