Senior Insurance Enterprise Architect

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

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.