Lead Enterprise Architect

Arcus Search; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking a Principal Architect to lead a team in London. This role focuses on technical decision-making within a global insurance business. The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of the insurance industry, particularly London Markets, along with experience in managing teams and influencing board-level decisions. Candidates with broad technical expertise across various domains will be preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading teams of architects in the insurance industry.
• Broad technical exposure to applications, infrastructure, and security.
• Ability to influence decisions at the board level.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of architects focusing on IT in a global business.
• Oversee technical decision-making across various domains.
• Facilitate collaboration between teams within the organization.

Skills

Strong insurance knowledge

Management of teams

Technical decision-making

Cloud technologies (Azure)

CRM systems (Salesforce)

Job description

An Insurance client of ours is looking for a Principal Architect to lead a team of Architects focusing on all areas of IT in their global business. They are seeking someone with:

• Strong insurance knowledge (ideally London Markets) along with extensive experience managing teams of architects.
• A breadth of technical exposure across applications, infrastructure, security, networks, CRM (ideally Salesforce), cloud (ideally Azure) and Insurance specific technology
• An ability to lead and influence technical decisioning up to board level

This is an opportunity to step into a global role within one of the most successful brands in Insurance.