Sr Enterprise Architect

We are working closely with a leading enterprise insurance institution to hire their next Senior Enterprise Architect. This role will play a critical part in transforming the technology landscape-modernising legacy platforms, uplifting customer and contact centre capabilities, and defining the future-state architecture aligned with business growth and regulatory expectations.

The successful candidate will operate at an enterprise level, providing architectural leadership across large-scale transformation initiatives, guiding engineering teams, and partnering closely with senior business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and future-ready insurance solutions.

• Define and drive the enterprise architecture strategy across the Insurance domain, including policy administration, customer platforms, digital experience, and supporting services
• Set target-state architectures and multi-year technology roadmaps aligned with business priorities and group standards
• Lead architectural reviews, design governance, and solution assurance across major initiatives
• Drive modernisation of legacy insurance platforms, including system retrofitting and replacement programmes
• Design secure, resilient, and scalable solutions leveraging modern technology stacks, cloud-native services, and integration patterns
• Provide detailed design guidance to engineering teams, ensuring solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements
• Be accountable for solutions end-to-end-from ideation and design through implementation and post-go-live sustainability
• Partner closely with senior business stakeholders to translate insurance product, operations, and customer needs into effective technology solutions
• Facilitate alignment across diverse stakeholders, including product owners, business analysts, engineers, testing teams, and external vendors
• Bring current insurance industry best practices, including InsurTech trends and the application of AI across insurance use cases

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or a related discipline
• Extensive experience as an Enterprise Architect or Senior Solution Architect within the Insurance domain
• Proven track record delivering large-scale modernisation and transformation programmes in complex enterprise environments
• Strong understanding of modern engineering practices, including:
  • Microservices and API-based architecture
  • Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated SDLC tooling
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to senior business leaders