Senior Solutions Architect

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.