Lead Architect Insurance

Deutsche Post DHL; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Deutsche Post DHL is seeking a senior Enterprise Architect to lead insurance transformation initiatives, shaping roadmaps across Claims, Underwriting, and Policy Administration. You will collaborate with senior leaders to align technology with business strategy and modernize our insurance tech landscape.

The role is based in London or Milton Keynes, with 2–3 days in the office, offering high-visibility impact and cross-functional collaboration in a global logistics environment.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of Enterprise Architecture experience.
• Insurance domain expertise: commercial, specialty, and captive.
• Experience in application transformation and legacy modernization.
• Deep knowledge of Claims, Underwriting, and Policy Administration platforms.
• Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, and event-driven architecture.
• Experience with data platforms: data lakes, analytics, and data hubs.
• Cloud architecture knowledge: Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• TOGAF certification.
• Excellent stakeholder management with senior influence.
• Strong communication translating complex topics to business language.
• Independent, structured, and solution-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, and standards aligned to TOGAF.
• Lead architecture for insurance transformation programs across Claims, Underwriting, and Policy Administration.
• Assess legacy systems and design modernization strategies, target architectures, and transition roadmaps.
• Develop enterprise-wide technology roadmaps aligned with business strategy.
• Drive architecture governance, standards, and decision-making forums.
• Provide architectural oversight across projects to ensure alignment with the target state.
• Define integration strategies, API frameworks, and interface architectures.
• Partner with data teams to shape data platforms, data flows, and information architecture.
• Support vendor selection, technology evaluation, and platform decisions.
• Produce architecture artefacts, including capability models, reference architectures, and solution blueprints.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders across business and IT.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Stakeholder management

Communication

Independent mindset

Cloud architecture

Education

TOGAF certification

Tools

APIs

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Salary: £37,000 - 77,000 per year

Requirements:

• We are looking for 6 - 10 years of Enterprise Architecture experience.
• We require strong insurance domain expertise, including commercial, specialty, and captive insurance.
• We require proven experience in application transformation and legacy modernization.
• We require deep knowledge of core insurance platforms, including Claims, Underwriting, and Policy Administration.
• We require a strong understanding of integration patterns, including APIs, microservices, and event-driven architecture.
• We require experience with data platforms, including data lakes, analytics, and data hubs.
• We require cloud architecture knowledge in Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• We require TOGAF certification.
• We require strong stakeholder management and the ability to influence at a senior level.
• We require excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex topics into business language.
• We require an independent, structured, and solution-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities:

• We define and maintain enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, and standards aligned to TOGAF.
• We lead architecture for insurance transformation programs across Claims, Underwriting, and Policy Administration.
• We assess legacy systems and design modernization strategies, target architectures, and transition roadmaps.
• We develop enterprise-wide technology roadmaps aligned with business strategy.
• We drive architecture governance, standards, and decision-making forums.
• We provide architectural oversight across projects to ensure alignment with the target state.
• We define integration strategies, API frameworks, and interface architectures.
• We partner with data teams to shape data platforms, data flows, and information architecture.
• We support vendor selection, technology evaluation, and platform decisions.
• We produce architecture artefacts, including capability models, reference architectures, and solution blueprints.
• We engage and influence senior stakeholders across business and IT.

Technologies:

• API
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• GCP
• Support
• TOGAF
• microservices
• Architect

More:

We are DHL Group, a global logistics company evolving our insurance capabilities and shaping the future of insurance technology. This is a senior individual contributor role with high visibility, where you will influence strategic decisions, shape multi-year roadmaps, and help modernize our insurance technology landscape. You will be based in London or Milton Keynes, with 2 - 3 days in the office required. We offer a truly global environment where your expertise will directly support strategic transformation initiatives and collaboration with senior leaders to build modern, scalable insurance technology platforms.