Solutions Architect

Role: Solutions Architect

Job type: Permanent, full time

Location: Manchester – Hybrid 3x in office

Industry: Insurance

Overview:

The Solutions Architect partners with Enterprise Architecture, Development teams, and Transformation teams to ensure technology solutions consistently support business objectives.

This role is accountable for defining, maintaining, and communicating end-to-end solution designs across a variety of initiatives, while providing technical oversight throughout delivery.

Responsibilities

• Develop and continuously evolve solution architectures working with cross-functional stakeholders, incorporating application, data, and infrastructure components as needed.
• Provide technical leadership to delivery teams, improving designs, and reinforcing engineering best practices.
• Collaborate and align with engineers, analysts, business stakeholders, project leaders, and transformation teams to ensure design integrity.
• Uphold technical standards, governance processes, and methodology compliance; recommending improvements where appropriate.
• Participate in project planning, guiding teams to maintain alignment with the broader architectural vision.

Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience leading end-to-end architectural design
• Hands-on architectural experience with technologies such as .NET, Python,
• Experience in the insurance sector.
• Experience with cloud platforms (ideally GCP)
• Deep understanding of SDLC methodologies and architectural approaches across multi-platform environments.
• Strong grasp of coding standards and code quality practices, including peer review processes.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively across technical and business audiences.
• Demonstrated experience developing long-term architectural roadmaps and translating them into executable initiatives.

• Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF) preferred.

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