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We re AND-E one of the fastest-growing insurance companies. And we re proud of our warm and inclusive culture. We re building a diverse community, with a unique blend of strengths, to take our business to the next level. As a DevOps Engineer, you ll be at the heart of our platforms, helping keep everything running smoothly behind the scenes while we deliver for our customers. You ll get hands-on with AWS, working across monitoring, incident response, automation, and CI/CD all the good stuff that keeps modern platforms fast, reliable, and scalable. This isn t a role where you ll just keep the lights on. You ll be solving real problems, reducing manual effort, and helping shape how we build and run our systems going forward. You ll work closely with experienced engineers, share ideas, and continuously look for smarter, better ways of doing things. Your work will directly support the systems that power our business, making sure they re ready when our customers need them most. If you re curious, collaborative, and enjoy solving meaningful technical challenges, this could be your next move join us and take your career further. CHALLENGED NOW AND-EXPERT NEXT. This role is based in the UK and requires candidates to have the right to work in the UK. Responsibilities Manage and support AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, networking), while driving automation using Shell, Python, and AWS-native solutions to improve efficiency and reliability. Assist in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as AWS CodePipeline and Jenkins. Support cloud-based deployment, monitoring, and operational tooling across application environments. Maintain platform availability, resilience, and disaster recovery capabilities, contributing to service reliability improvements (SLIs/SLOs). Participate in deployments, releases, and day-to-day operational support across multiple applications. Monitor system health, including application environments, scheduled jobs, integrations, and message queues, and contribute to logging and alerting standards. Support incident management activities, including triage, troubleshooting, escalation, root cause analysis (RCA), and continuous improvement based on incident trends. Assist with routine maintenance tasks such as data validation, fixes, and batch/integration support. Support containerisation using Docker and follow best practices for image creation and management. Assist with infrastructure and system administration tasks across Linux and Windows environments. Apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform. Follow DevOps best practices, including branching strategies and source control using Git and Bitbucket. Contribute to technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures using Confluence and Bitbucket. Collaborate in Agile ceremonies with cross-functional teams, including developers, testers, infrastructure teams, and third-party vendors. Support planned out-of-hours changes and incidents where required. Participate in cost-awareness and optimisation activities within AWS environments. Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications Essential • Experience in IT support and systems administration. • Basic understanding of ITIL, DevOps, Agile, and Kanban principles. • Exposure to Linux administration and troubleshooting. • Hands-on exposure to AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch). • Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. • Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tools. • Awareness of application platforms and middleware such as Java, Tomcat, Apache, and NodeJS. • Experience using Git and collaborative development workflows. • Basic scripting skills using Shell or Python. • Understanding of containerisation concepts using Docker. • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail. • Good communication and interpersonal skills. • Willingness to learn and develop within a fast-paced technical environment. • Understanding of incident management and production support environments. • Awareness of security best practices (IAM roles, secrets management). Desirable • Exposure to Guidewire applications. • Exposure to Terraform or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling. • Knowledge of AWS Lambda, serverless, and event-driven architecture. • Experience within insurance or financial services environments. • Experience with EKS / container orchestration (or strong Docker usage). • Experience working in 24/7 production environments, ideally within regulated settings. • Understanding of release management and change controls in regulated environments. Why Join Us? We're all about helping you grow, with plenty of support to develop in your current role whilst also creating opportunities to explore new ones and advance your career. We realise that we need to be a good fit for you above all else so here s what you can enjoy about AND-E: Recognised as the Best Large Insurance Employer: We are proud to have been named the Best Large Insurance Employer for 2023 at the prestigious British Insurance Awards. Unmatched Work-Life Balance. Competitive Salaries and Benefits Package: We offer competitive salaries that recognise your skills and expertise. We champion choice, flexibility, and balance in both work and home life. Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion ensures everyone feels valued and supported including embracing neurodiversity and providing the tools needed to thrive. We like to think our benefits package is one of the best, focusing on colleagues health, wealth, and lifestyle. We offer: Up to 28 Days annual leave with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday 7.5% Discretionary Annual Bonus Healix Private Medical Insurance Options 3 x Annual Salary Life Assurance A range of health, wellbeing, and financial support benefits, including money back on health expenses, Employee Assistance Programme, Flu Jab voucher, Virtual GP service, and driving lessons for you and your family. Additional perks such as a pension advisory service, family-friendly policies, season ticket loan , cycle scheme , and financial flexibility through Wagestream . Subject to company performance and completion of probation Aioi Nissay Dowa Europe is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment. Employees and job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation (Protected Characteristics) At AND-E, equal opportunity is more than a policy it s a promise. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. Reasonable adjustments: If you require any adjustments to support you during our recruitment process, please let us know. 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As a Claims Solution Architect, you will be responsible for designing and governing end-to-end technical solutions across the Claims domain. The role will ensure that solutions are secure, scalable, compliant, performant, and aligned with digital strategy, hybrid cloud principles, architecture standards, and customer-focused delivery. You will provide solution architecture leadership across initiatives, working closely with product owners, delivery teams, subject matter experts, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, and wider stakeholders. The role will translate requirements into pragmatic architecture designs and provide architectural oversight throughout delivery, including MVP implementation and future extensibility. Key Responsibilities Lead solution architecture design for Claims initiatives, ensuring solutions are aligned to outcomes, customer needs, technology strategy, and regulatory expectations. Design and maintain solution outlines and architecture artefacts that support hybrid cloud strategy and delivery governance. Provide architectural leadership across the Claims domain, including solutions involving Guidewire ClaimCenter 10 and the wider Guidewire suite of systems. Translate requirements into secure, compliant, scalable, and performant technical architectures. Collaborate with product owners, delivery teams, subject matter experts, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, and wider stakeholders to shape and validate solution options. Govern the use of APIs, event-driven architecture, shared services, and integration patterns across Claims and adjacent domains. Provide architectural oversight during MVP delivery, ensuring solutions are fit for purpose while remaining scalable and extensible for future phases. Support delivery teams by clarifying architecture decisions, resolving design issues, and ensuring alignment to agreed architecture principles and patterns. Apply enterprise solution patterns and security patterns to ensure consistency, resilience, and compliance across solutions. Ensure architecture decisions consider the full end-to-end process and operational context. Produce high-quality architecture artefacts, including high-level designs and solution outlines, to support governance, delivery, and stakeholder understanding. Essential Skills and Experience Hands on experience with Guidewire ClaimCenter or a similar Claims platform. Knowledge of Guidewire ClaimCenter 10 and the wider Guidewire suite of systems. Experience designing secure, scalable, and performant solution architectures. Knowledge of Azure services such as Blob Storage, API Management, Key Vault, AKS, Event Grid, Logic Apps, or comparable cloud services. Understanding of enterprise solution patterns and security patterns. Previous engineering experience, such as Java, C#, or other programming languages. Ability to produce high-quality architecture artefacts, including high-level designs and solution outlines. Ability to translate requirements into secure, compliant, and practical technical solutions. Experience supporting architecture governance and assurance throughout delivery. Experience designing solutions that support MVP delivery while allowing for future scalability and extensibility. Desired Skills and Experience Proven experience designing Claims solutions within the UK General Insurance sector. Strong understanding of Claims lifecycle processes, including FNOL, liability, repair, settlement, and fraud. Familiarity with regulatory frameworks including FCA, GDPR, and PRA, and their impact on Claims systems. Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to work effectively with Claims SMEs, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, product owners, delivery teams, and business stakeholders. Experience with cross-cloud architectures, particularly across Azure and GCP. Broader experience across adjacent insurance domains such as Policy, Digital, or shared services. Experience governing API-led and event-driven architectures across multiple domains. What Success Looks Like Claims solutions are well designed, secure, scalable, compliant, and aligned with technology strategy and customer-focused outcomes. Architecture artefacts are clear, high quality, and provide delivery teams and stakeholders with the guidance needed to make informed decisions. Product owners, delivery teams, subject matter experts, Information Security, and Enterprise Architecture have confidence in the architecture direction and decisions. Solution designs support MVP delivery while enabling future phases and avoiding unnecessary rework. APIs, event-driven architecture, shared services, and integration approaches are governed consistently across Claims and adjacent domains. Architecture decisions are pragmatic, clearly communicated, and balance business value, regulatory obligations, technical quality, and delivery needs. Claims initiatives benefit from strong architectural oversight throughout design and delivery. Candidate Profile The successful candidate will be an experienced Solution Architect with strong technical architecture capability and practical knowledge of Claims platforms, cloud services, integration approaches, security patterns, and enterprise architecture practices. They will be comfortable operating in a complex delivery environment, producing clear architecture artefacts, engaging with technical and business stakeholders, and making pragmatic design decisions. This role is well suited to someone who can provide clear technical leadership, support delivery teams through ambiguity, and ensure solutions are designed with security, scalability, compliance, and customer outcomes in mind. Working arrangements This is aremoterole, with an expectation to attend the Ty Admiral Cardiff office once per month or as and when required. Admiral: Where You Can We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We're committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service. Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave. We're proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We're fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics. Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here. Disability Confident Leader As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we'll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process. If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please do email us or contact us on . This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.

Senior Business Analyst - London Market Transformation Ready to shape underwriting transformation at scale? We're partnering with a global insurer undergoing a major multi-year transformation, redefining how underwriting, policy administration, and data flow across the business. This is a senior, high-impact BA role sitting at the heart of delivery-working directly with underwriting, technology, and leadership to drive real change. Responsibilities Lead requirements across complex, enterprise-level initiatives Bridge the gap between underwriting, IT, and data teams Drive process, data and system improvements across policy administration and downstream integrations Own high-quality deliverables (user stories, process/data flows, functional specs) Play a key role in UAT, solution shaping, and stakeholder alignment Qualifications 7 years BA experience within London Market / Lloyd's insurance Strong exposure to underwriting / policy admin transformation Experience working closely with Dev, QA, and architecture teams Ability to challenge stakeholders and shape requirements (not just document them) Experience across Agile & Waterfall environments Policy administration systems experience essential (Guidewire highly desirable) Strong understanding of data flows / integrations Benefits High visibility role within a strategic transformation programme Opportunity to influence end-to-end delivery and business outcomes Collaborative, forward-thinking environment with strong investment in technology Genuine impact on how underwriting operates going forward Location: London (hybrid)