Solutions Architect
Role: Solution Architect
Job Type: Contract (Inside IR 35)
Location: London, UK (5 days onsite)
Job Description
This role will play a key part in modernizing underwriting capabilities and driving the future replacement of the Policy Administration System (PAS). You will collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, system integrators, and delivery partners to define solution architecture, support strategic technology decisions, and shape the future underwriting technology landscape. The role involves designing target-state and transition-state architectures, defining migration strategies, supporting PAS replacement initiatives, facilitating architecture workshops, and ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture standards and business objectives.
Required Skills
- Proven experience as a Solution Architect within the London Market Insurance domain.
- Extensive experience delivering large-scale insurance transformation programmes.
- Hands-on experience with Policy Administration System (PAS) implementation, migration, or replacement initiatives.
- Strong understanding of underwriting processes and operating models.
- Experience defining migration strategies, target-state architectures, and modernization roadmaps.
- Expertise in documenting current-state and future-state technology landscapes.
- Strong knowledge of API-led architecture, REST APIs, event-driven integration, and microservices.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure, cloud-native solution design, Docker, and containerization technologies.
- Knowledge of Security and Identity & Access Management (IAM).
- Experience with architecture modelling, technical design documentation, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience collaborating with system integrators, implementation partners, and third-party vendors.
Nice to Have
- Experience with PAS platforms such as Guidewire, Duck Creek, HX, IRIS, or similar London Market insurance solutions.
- Knowledge of reinsurance, bordereaux management, and reporting.
- Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Service Bus, and Azure API Management.
- Knowledge of Snowflake and SQL Server.
- Experience with vendor evaluations, proof-of-concept initiatives, and strategic technology assessments.
