Solution Architect - (Payments)

ZipRecruiter; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital insurance provider in the UK is seeking a Solution Architect to lead and deliver innovative solutions across their platforms. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, designing APIs and microservices, and adapting to technical realities during implementation. Join a company that values your contributions and offers competitive benefits.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Annual Performance Bonus

Pension Match

27 Days Holiday

Health & Wellbeing Benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and consuming APIs using various protocols.
• Proficiency in cloud technology, preferably Microsoft Azure.

Responsibilities

• Lead, validate, and deliver solutions across the product and change lifecycle.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and communicate solutions.
• Design APIs, microservices, and event-driven solutions.

Skills

Cloud Technology

API Design

Microservices

DevOps

Relational Databases

NoSQL Databases

Job description

Job Description

Welcome to Hastings Direct - From our Group HR Director Pam Angel. We're a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans to become the best and biggest in the UK market. We've made significant investments in our data and tech capabilities over the past few years, along with nurturing our 4Cs culture. We're proud of our journey as a company and know that our continued success depends on the contributions of our talented colleagues. We provide insurance for over three million customers, but we see even greater opportunities ahead.

The fact you're reading this job advert means we've piqued your interest in #lifeatHD. We hope you like what you see and consider joining us to share in the exciting future ahead. We understand some people may hesitate to apply unless they meet every requirement. If you're excited about this opportunity and believe you have some of the skills we're looking for, we'd love to hear from you, even if you're not 100% sure you tick every box.

We have a great opportunity for a Solution Architect as we continue to invest and transform our platforms.

What you will do

• Lead, validate, and deliver solutions across the product and change lifecycle.
• Collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders to develop and communicate solutions that meet requirements, standards, regulations, security, and quality needs.
• Design APIs, microservices, and event-driven solutions across current, transition, and target states, developing various views (business, application, information, technology).
• Promote re-use of principles and patterns, creating reusable artifacts.
• Adapt to technical realities during implementation and collaboratively solve problems, leading architecture decisions.
• Establish trusted advisor relationships with the business by influencing and negotiating with stakeholders on solution facets.

Skills we would love you to have

• Proficiency in cloud technology and solutions, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Experience in creating or transforming application architectures.
• Essential experience in designing and consuming APIs using various protocols.
• Previous experience with enterprise integration patterns, solution architecture principles, microservice, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience leveraging CI/CD, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code.
• Knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases and modern ETL processes.
• Experience in the Insurance or Financial industry is a plus.

Benefits for you

• Competitive salary dependent on experience plus car allowance.
• Private medical insurance.
• Annual performance bonus based on company and personal performance.
• 1:1 pension match up to 10%.
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with buy/sell options.
• Health & Wellbeing benefits including Life Assurance, Wills Service, Income Protection (75% of salary for 5 years from day 1).
• And much more to come!

Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of background, belief, or status. Our thorough referencing process includes credit and criminal record checks.