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Solution Architect
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Company Overview
Our client is a leading London Market Insurer who is undergoing a number of exciting transformation projects including a cloud migration to Azure and the re-platforming of a number of key systems. This role reports into the Lead Architect and will be responsible solution architecture from both an IT and data perspective.
Your Responsibilities
* Engage actively across the enterprise with a wide range of people, from highly technical software developers to Senior Executive stakeholders. This means the ability to change style and approach is essential. Identifying what a particular stakeholder needs to know or is concerned about is critical throughout all phases of a project.
* Working closely with business domain experts and therefore must be comfortable acquiring and using business domain language and knowledge to convey concepts and recommendations.
* Taking ownership of the Solution Design and ensuring that all members of the project team are bought in the vision. Technical, architectural, functional impact and risk elements of the design need to be conveyed to technical and non-technical members. Presenting options, risks, recommendations in a language and a way that shows understanding and technical leadership is essential.
* Engage with and assisting internal/external delivery teams and partners across the whole lifecycle of the project in delivering the solution. From understanding testing requirements to being involved with the development of solution using a variety of technologies, the Solution Architect is required to be able to engage and operate across a broad range of technologies on premise, on Azure and SaaS solutions.
* Working closely with vendors to ensure the right technical fit of the solution. This means actively contributing to RFIs, RFPs and subsequently working closely with them in design and implementation of the solution.
Required Experience
* Understanding of Architectural Processes; the function of an Architecture Review Board, how to demonstrate architecture principle alignment and implementation governance
* Ability to influence the direction of the solution and being able to adapt and work with a wide range of stakeholders
* Ability to balance architectural purity with optimal solution to meet business requirements
* Software development background (Microsoft .NET/C# with SQL)
* Experience of the Microsoft database technology stack (SQL Server, T-SQL, SSIS, SSAS)
* Good understanding of data warehouse architecture/data cubes and ETL processes
* Demonstrable knowledge of Cloud/Hybrid architectures
* Experience of API design, management and service based architectures (SOA/Microservices)
* Data Modelling; conceptual, logical and physical schema separation
* Object Oriented Design; use of UML or other suitable taxonomy to convey design
* An appreciation of Agile and DevOps best practices
* Experience in Finance, Insurance and/or Reinsurance will be beneficial
Please apply now and submit your updated CV if you are interested in being considered for this position.