Manager – Insurance Architect

Accenture UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days vacation

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Accenture in the United Kingdom is seeking a Manager – Insurance Architect to shape digital change for insurers and financial services clients. The role is hybrid with travel within the UK and across Accenture’s UK Insurance & Financial Services practice.

You will lead enterprise & solution architecture workstreams, guide cloud & data strategies, and mentor a team of senior architects across six pillars, with a strong emphasis on AI, GenAI and modern data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead technology advisory engagements and architecture workstreams within larger programmes, shaping technology solutions for clients.
• Define, shape and deliver enterprise and solution architecture artefacts (current-state, target-state, roadmaps) for Insurance & Financial Services.
• Partner with CIOs, CTOs and Chief Architects to advise on investment decisions and strategic technology directions.
• Support sales, proposals and client presentations, including solution shaping and effort estimation.

Job description

Role: Manager – Insurance Architect

Location: Bath, Bristol, London, Hybrid

Mobility: Up to 100%

Career Level: Manager (CL7)

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We are recruiting for talented technologists to join the Insurance Architecture team within Accenture’s UK Insurance & Financial Services Industry and Enterprise practice, helping us shape and deliver digital change for our clients.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team:

Insurance Architecture is the dedicated digital architecture and technology team within Accenture’s UK Insurance & Financial Services Industry and Enterprise practice. We are a small, high-impact team of senior architects and technologists who shape and assure complex digital change for some of the UK’s leading insurers, life offices, wealth managers and platform providers, and advising CIOs, CTOs and Chief Architects on major investment plans and technology and platform decisions.

Our work spans General Insurance, Life, Pensions & Investments, London Markets, Capital Markets and the wider Financial Services market, supporting clients in areas such as journey to cloud, digital transformation in underwriting and claims, applications of AI and GenAI, and large-scale platform re-platforming.

Our operating model is built around six functional pillars – Solution Architecture; Enterprise Architecture & System Design; ML, AI & GenAI; Data Architecture; Cyber Security; and Cloud & Infrastructure. Each team member develops deep expertise in one or more pillars and helps us build capability across the team, enabling us to deploy rapidly onto client engagements with both depth and resilience.

We were recently recognised by the Financial Times as one of the UK’s leading Management Consultants in Insurance.

In our team you will have the opportunity to:

• Invent and provide solutions to real-world problems across our Insurance and Financial Services clients, including solutions leveraging the latest technologies including GenAI and agentic AI.
• Build on and develop your understanding of the Financial Services sector using our industry-proven models and reference architectures.
• Act as the communication bridge between business and technology teams, helping ensure that solutions are aligned to true business needs.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with CIO, CTO, Chief Architect and senior business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with colleagues from across the wider Accenture business – including Industry and Enterprise, Technology, Song, Operations – to create differentiated offerings and enable the best outcomes for our clients.
• Deliver tangible, transformational change for clients, helping to shape the insurance and financial services industries of the future.

As an Enterprise & Solution Architect Manager within Insurance Architecture, you will:

• Contribute across all six of our functional pillars on client engagements – with a particular focus on Applications, Integration and Data as well as AI, Cloud and Cyber Security – and developing your skills as an SME in one or more areas.
• Lead technology advisory engagements and architecture workstreams within larger programmes, shaping technology solutions for our clients, leading and working on client engagements that range from architecture assessments and product selections through to major business and technology transformation programmes.
• Define, shape and deliver enterprise and solution architecture artefacts (current-state, target-state, roadmaps and transition states, integration patterns, capability maps) for clients across Insurance and Financial Services.
• Become familiar with and help to enhance our industry specific reference architecture frameworks, which form a core part of our proposition to our clients.
• Shape and lead client engagements – from cloud strategy and solution architecture designs for major programmes to IT strategy roadmaps for an entire business – and lead teams in the delivery of quality outputs and client outcomes.
• Partner with and demonstrate credibility to CIOs, CTOs, Chief Architects and other senior client stakeholders through clear, well-structured and insightful analysis and evidence-based advice, acting as a trusted technology adviser and helping to shape clients’ investment decisions and strategic thinking.
• Support sales, proposals and business development activities, including client presentations, solution shaping, effort estimation and commercial input.
• Build and maintain relationships across client organisations and Accenture account teams and contribute to account growth by identifying follow-on opportunities and helping clients develop investment cases and transformation strategies.
• Contribute to and lead thought leadership on the application of technology in financial services, developing distinctive points of view on emerging technologies and trends and representing Accenture at industry forums, conferences and client events.
• Actively contribute to growing and diversifying the Insurance Architecture team, managing, mentoring and coaching colleagues and helping us continuously raise the bar and to develop consulting, architecture and industry/domain skills.

We are looking for candidates with experience and skills such as:

• 7+ years of experience in technology roles – ideally with exposure to Financial Services, Insurance or another regulated industry – covering some combination of data, application, cloud, integration and security.
• A strong working knowledge of architecture concepts particularly with regard to the Application and Data Domains.
• Experience of integrating multiple systems within an enterprise estate and a broad familiarity with Enterprise Application Integration patterns.
• An appreciation of how technology can solve complex business problems, and comfortable operating at the intersection of business and technology.
• Excelled written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to engage and influence senior business and technology stakeholders and to present complex technology concepts clearly to executive and non-technical audiences
• Familiarity with at least one major industry platform (e.g. FNZ, SS&C, Pershing, Guidewire, Sapiens, Duck Creek, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics) is highly desirable.
• A genuine desire to improve outcomes for clients and consumers, and willingness to travel within the UK and occasionally internationally.

Set yourself apart:

• Experience leading technology consulting architecture or transformation engagements within Financial Services or other regulated industries, including supporting business development, proposals and client relationship management activities.
• Experience shaping technology strategies, architecture roadmaps or large-scale transformation programmes, and of leading teams and managing workstreams within complex client environments.
• Passion and enthusiasm for innovating in the insurance and financial services industries, especially through automation, AI/GenAI and modern data platforms.
• Curiosity about the wider Insurance Architecture pillars – Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture & System Design, Cyber Security – and a desire to develop your existing expertise in one or more.
• Experience of how AI/GenAI can be used within architecture and the wider change process to improve delivery quality and efficiency, as well as where it could fit within our clients’ propositions.
• Ability to engage with stakeholders across business, technology and delivery teams, suppliers and clients, explaining the business rationale for architectural and technology choices as well as the delivery impacts.
• A distinctive emerging point of view that you can bring to internal forums and external events.

Successful candidates will demonstrate a consulting mindset, combining deep technology expertise with commercial awareness, client relationship management and a passion for helping organisations navigate complex transformation challenges. They will be comfortable operating as trusted advisors to senior stakeholders while leading teams and contributing to the growth of both client accounts and the wider Insurance Architecture practice.

What’s in it for you

At Accenture, in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days’ leave per year for charitable work of your choice.

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the services we are known for.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360 value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360 value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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