About This Role
This Solutions Architect role focuses on designing and overseeing end-to-end solutions, with a particular emphasis on AI capabilities, for an insurance client. The position involves ensuring consistency, adherence to standards, and managing risks across various technological domains.
Responsibilities
- Design and oversee end-to-end solutions across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, and emerging capabilities such as AI
- Produce and maintain high-level and detailed solution design artifacts
- Ensure consistency and reuse across solutions and platforms
- Apply systems thinking to manage dependencies, integrations, and data flows
- Apply and contribute to architecture principles, standards, patterns, and frameworks
- Ensure adherence to enterprise standards, security policies, and compliance requirements
- Participate in solution design reviews and governance forums
- Review and assure solutions for quality, consistency, and fitness for purpose
- Identify and manage risks, issues, and dependencies
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong domain experience working in financial services or pension industry
- Proven solution design expertise across applications, APIs, data, integration, infrastructure, security, and hybrid cloud architecture
- Demonstrate solid knowledge of architectural principles, design patterns, and enterprise governance practices such as .NET, Python/Django, C, C++, relational databases (Oracle/Postgresql/Azure SQL), PL/SQL, and React
- Comfortable working across a broad technology landscape, including modern engineering practices, cloud platforms, and legacy environments
- Practical experience or strong awareness of AI-enabled architectures, including embedding GenAI/ML capabilities into enterprise solutions with appropriate governance and controls
- Experience in aligning AI-enabled solutions with compliance, audit, and data protection requirements
- Strong awareness of cyber security principles (secure-by-design, Zero Trust)
- Awareness of AI/ML integration and governance considerations
Nice to have:
- Certification in architecture or cloud certifications (e.g., TOGAF, Azure)
Important Details
- Contract: 6-month
- Work format: Hybrid
About the Company
Guidant, Carbon 60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
