Ready to apply Before you do, make sure to read all the details pertaining to this job in the description below. Role: Enterprise solution architect Location: London UK Purpose: The Solution Architect role is a leadership position which include the following aspects: - Own the relationship between Enterprise Architecture and delivery, communicating in both directions: Informing the EA roadmap to make it fit for purpose and achievable Explaining how to implement it Take responsibility for specific components within the ecosystem. Hold and communicate the vision for how they will evolve to reach the target architectural state, reducing technical debt and stay in support. Produce solution options and technical designs for projects, consulting with scrums to ensure the designs are understood and viable. Play a hands-on technical role when required. Identify and proactively manage risks relating to the as is and to be technologies in the ecosystem. Work through governance processes to align with company standards. Work effectively with peers in the Solution Architect role, collaborating on and challenging each others work. Work management of Technical Leads providing both technical and pastoral mentoring. Provide thought leadership as part of the IT Leadership Team, challenging where appropriate but supporting the position that is agreed. Maintain a culture of empowerment and continuous proactive improvement. Provide effective guidance to staff and scrums to help them contribute to the success of the org. Support training and development to maintain the competencies, behaviors and technical expertise of a high performing team Assist in the development of AOP and Capital Expenditure plans Underpin the delivery of both strategic and tactical projects/programmes across the Group Role Holder Qualities: IT professional with extensive knowledge and expertise in large, complex system environments. Technical excellence in your specialist area, combined with versatility and breadth of technical knowledge. Strong leadership and people skills and strong team player. Commercial awareness. Logical approach to software solutions and problem solving. Active and valued contributor in peer group and to upward reporting lines. Accountabilities: There will be a wide range of technical accountabilities and activities performed by the job holder depending on the specific discipline e.g. Design, Development, Support and environment Configuration. Delivery Focused Constantly challenge and drive forwards the levels of quality delivered by the team, in concert with your peers As part of the IT Leadership Team, contribute to the overall development strategy and continuous improvement plans Qualifications and Training: Experience of working in a matrix managed environment, with mixed teams including contractors and outsourced vendors Experience of working within Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies Ability to own and manage delivery risks and issues of a technical nature Ability to know when to escalate to senior leadership when appropriate Provide effective communication on the management and progression of risks and issues Understands all aspects of quality management and builds quality control for all key development deliverables into the processes adopted within the Engineering function Excellent appreciation of stakeholder expectations Able to develop, maintain and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders Excellent oral and written communication Able to construct and deliver presentations and options papers Able to facilitate groups up to achieve desired solutions Seeks opportunities to undertake training and mentoring of colleagues within the team and to more junior staff in wider development community Technical skills: Enterprise standard architecture documentation Designing high quality and repeatable processes that result in low levels of production issues Awareness of industry best practice and new and upcoming technology trends Full solution architectural understanding across networking and software Experience managing large programmes of work across multiple delivery teams with varying technologies. Ideally gained within an enterprise scale organization within a technology or delivery team or similar. Tracking delivery timelines and interdependencies across multiple teams to report into stakeholders. Technical exposure to and/or experience in a range of technologies and architectural best practice concepts, specifically Data exchange and integration best practices and patterns on traditional onprem networks and cloud networks (Azure and GCP). Experience of delivering technical solutions in the insurance industry and a SME in topics such as Products, Claims and Settlement Able to understand and query enterprise size Oracle databases to quickly diagnose issues and make recommendations to the delivery teams. Automation of CICD pipelines in ADO and/or Jira across different technologies Able to read through repos of .NET, Java and PL-SQL code to review and/or understand the intention of the code. Exposure and passion for new and emerging technologies and trends

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