Enterprise Architect

La Fosse; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

La Fosse is recruiting an Enterprise Architect in London to own the end-to-end architecture across the business and work with senior stakeholders to transform strategy into a deliverable technology roadmap. The role is senior and business-facing, focusing on transforming the insurer’s architecture and responding to market shifts.

This hybrid position requires 3 days per week in Central London offices, with governance duties across the change portfolio and a focus on data, security and

Qualifications

• Experience as an enterprise-wide architect with a business architecture background and change delivery experience.
• Strong business acumen and ability to challenge stakeholder requirements to deliver long-term value.
• Experience with solution governance and assurance and defining/ delivering strategic change toward a target state.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve end-to-end architecture and roadmaps for the international division in line with strategy.
• Hold business to account on outcomes, capabilities and platforms; translate into a sequenced change plan.
• Set architectural guardrails, layers and domain boundaries for delivery teams.
• Provide governance and assurance across the change portfolio to align designs with strategy and reduce technical debt.
• Produce impact assessments covering data, integration, security and infrastructure.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Business architecture

Change delivery

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Solution governance

Agile experience

Cloud-first environment

Job description

A leading insurer is looking for an Enterprise Architect to join its central Architecture function. This is a senior, business-facing role. You’ll own the end-to-end architecture across the business and work closely with senior stakeholders to turn business strategy into a clear, deliverable technology roadmap. The work covers business transformation, data and responding to a changing insurance market.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the end-to-end architecture and roadmaps for the international division, in line with group Enterprise Architecture and business strategy.
• Hold the business to account on outcomes, capabilities and technology platforms, and turn them into a clear, sequenced view of how change will deliver the strategy.
• Set clear architectural guardrails, layers and domain boundaries, and make sure Solution Architecture and delivery teams stay within them.
• Provide governance and assurance across the change portfolio to keep designs aligned with strategy and to reduce technical debt.
• Produce impact assessments that cover data, integration, security and infrastructure, so investment decisions are well informed.

Key Skills Required

• Experience as a true enterprise-wide architect, ideally with a business architecture background and strong change delivery experience.
• Knowledge of the London Market or specialty insurance, deep enough to act as the subject matter expert (desirable)
• Strong business acumen, with a track record of challenging stakeholder requirements and proposing alternatives that create long‑term value.
• Experience with solution governance and assurance, and with defining and delivering strategic change towards a target state.
• Able to break down large, complex problems and explain the way forward clearly to non‑technical senior stakeholders.
• Experience working with self‑organising agile teams (Scrum, Kanban, DSDM) in a modern, cloud‑first environment.

This is a hybrid role that requires 3 days per week in the Central London offices.