Solution Architect Sr.

Core Responsibilities

• Architecture Leads collaboration with business stakeholders to understand requirements and align solutions with business goals.
• Leads the development of architectures for complex systems, ensuring consistency with IT target architecture and agreed business requirements.
• Develops target designs, architecture roadmaps, and solution direction to support modernization and transformation initiatives.
• Establishes and applies architecture principles, policies, standards, and design patterns to promote consistency and sustainability.
• Communicates complex architecture objectives to business and technology stakeholders and provides oversight through design implementation into a productive solution.
• Ensures the solution meets functional, non-functional, security, and regulatory requirements, particularly within P&C insurance environments.
• Designs overall solution architecture including applications, data, integrations, cloud platforms, and infrastructure, ensuring alignment with strategic goals of the organization.
• Creates conceptual and high-level design documents, architecture diagrams, and implementation views that clearly communicate the proposed solution.
• Reviews detailed solution designs and works closely with delivery teams to ensure the solution is implemented in line with architectural intent.
• Frequently deals with cross-domain challenges, ensuring different components work together as a cohesive end-to-end solution.
• Supports the evaluation and adoption of AWS cloud solutions where appropriate.
• Contributes to the design of solutions involving Microsoft Dynamics 365 where relevant.

Core Responsibilities – Business And Technology Alignment

• Focuses heavily on how technology supports business outcomes and works closely with business and non-technical teams.
• Responsible for bridging the gap between architecture, delivery teams and business stakeholders.
• Translates business requirements into practical technology solutions and implementation direction for development and integration teams.
• Pairs with delivery, infrastructure, platform, data, and security teams to ensure solutions are aligned and executable.
• Supports transformation initiatives by defining transition states and sequencing the evolution from current state to target state.
• Ensures architecture decisions balance strategic direction, delivery feasibility, cost, risk, and long-term maintainability.
• Works closely with respective technical, application, platform, and data architects to ensure alignment across the broader technology landscape.

Knowledge And Skills

• Preferably a University degree in Computer Engineering, IT, or similar qualification.
• 10+ years of experience in delivery of IT solutions, including significant experience in solution architecture or related senior technology roles.
• Strong experience in the P&C insurance industry, with understanding of insurance processes, products, systems, regulatory considerations, and business operations.
• Strong experience designing Azure cloud applications and platform solutions.
• Strong hands-on experience creating conceptual and high-level design documents and architecture artifacts.
• Experience building architecture roadmaps and defining target-state and transition-state architecture.
• Proven experience supporting transformation initiatives, modernization efforts, and large-scale business and technology change.
• Able to understand and interpret business requirements and convert them into technology implementation specifications for development and integration teams.
• Skilled at effective business engagement and providing technology consulting.
• Strong communication and presentation skills to articulate technical concepts and solutions to non-technical stakeholders and senior management.
• Strong knowledge of IT architecture principles, enterprise architecture frameworks, application architecture, integration architecture, and cloud platforms.
• Strong experience in application development, data, and systems integration.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 is desirable.
• AWS cloud experience is desirable.
• Proven experience in designing and developing solutions, including consideration for application IT risk, resilience, and security.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-based solutions and emerging technologies, and understanding of how these can be applied to improve processes and business outcomes.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively engage with business users, IT teams, vendors, and senior management.
• Able to foster collaboration and teamwork among cross-functional teams, breaking down silos and encouraging knowledge sharing.
• Thought leadership with the ability to monitor market trends and guide future technology capabilities that increase business value.
• Willingness to mentor and coach junior architects and team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Able to work in a demanding, high-paced environment, effectively identify priorities, and manage time.