Senior Solution Architect

Munich Re Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Munich Re in London, England, United Kingdom, is seeking a senior solution architect to lead application transformation and modernization. You will create modular architectures, guiding IT development teams and business stakeholders toward enterprise alignment and reuse.

The role emphasizes governance, best-practice design, and cloud-native, API-driven, microservices architectures, with TOGAF certification valued and insurance-domain experience advantageous.

Qualifications

• We have experience in insurance domain areas including underwriting, claims, or policy issuance with Guidewire preferred.
• Strong analytical, planning, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience designing system architectures for policy administration systems, ERP, and customer-facing portals.
• Substantial knowledge of SDLC and scaled agile methods, including governance and frameworks.

Responsibilities

• We develop roadmaps for application transformation and modernization.
• We design modular, reusable solution designs with business and IT teams, aligned to enterprise standards.
• We support high-level operational models and prepare business cases with IT security guidelines.
• We present cases for approvals, funding, and prioritization.
• We uphold architecture governance and act as the accountable owner for solution acceptance.
• We enable Agile and DevSecOps practices with delivery and operations teams.
• We explore technology innovation and review designs with leads and developers.
• We identify risks and mitigation plans for architecture initiatives.
• We stay current on trends to recommend cost-effective solutions.
• We assist requirements gathering to shape strategy and reuse architecture assets.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Critical thinking

Planning

Documentation

Problem-solving

Mentoring

Agile methods

DevSecOps

Architecture governance

Solution design

Guidewire experience

Cloud technologies

API-based / microservices

Enterprise alignment

Technology risk assessment

Education

TOGAF certification

Tools

TOGAF

Job description

Salary: £55,000 - 95,000 per year

Requirements

• We have experience in the insurance domain, ideally across underwriting, claims, or policy issuance, with Guidewire experience preferred.
• We bring exceptional analytical and critical thinking skills, with strong attention to detail.
• We have excellent planning, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• We understand the design and implementation of solutions and systems using custom-built and COTS/MOTS applications hosted in cloud and on-premises environments.
• We have experience designing solutions including policy administration systems, ERP, and customer- or agent-facing portals.
• We have substantial knowledge of the system development life cycle and scaled agile methodology.
• Certifications are preferred, and TOGAF certification is a significant plus.
• We can work at the highest technical level across all phases of system architecture design, using state-of-the-art rule/framework-based architecture, object-oriented component analysis, and web-based, service-based, and enterprise application architecture.
• We can guide and mentor development teams on sound design and coding principles, best practices in API-based, microservices, and cloud technologies.
• We have experience in integration architectures, from service bus to API mediation and event bus models.
• We have strong knowledge of contemporary technologies and business trends that enables creative and cost-effective architecture solutions.

Responsibilities

• We develop application and system roadmaps associated with application transformation and modernization.
• We develop flexible, adaptable, modular, and reusable solution designs in collaboration with business stakeholders and IT development teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• We support the definition of high-level operational models and prepare business cases in alignment with IT security and quality guidelines.
• We present business cases for operational and tactical technical initiatives for approval, funding, and prioritization.
• We uphold solution architecture governance processes and tools while maintaining focus on design patterns and technology standards.We act as the accountable individual for the finalization, acceptance, and approval of solutions we architect, by relevant stakeholders.
• We enable Agile and DevSecOps practices in collaboration with product delivery and operation support teams.
• We explore, evaluate, and promote technology innovation within the organization.
• We review high-level designs with technical leads and developers, review code, enforce best practices, assist with debugging critical issues, and enforce performance testing to deliver efficient and performant applications.
• We identify technology risks for initiatives we lead as architects and develop corresponding mitigation strategies.
• We stay current on, evaluate, and recommend cutting-edge technologies and methods, considering technical pros and limitations.
• We leverage market and technology trends to identify business benefits of alternative technical solutions.
• We support the requirements gathering process to right-size initiatives and shape solution strategy.
• We collaborate with development teams and assist with the application of Agile and DevSecOps techniques within architecture and designs.
• We create comprehensive solution architecture specification documents and other required documentation.
• We help maintain a business unit-level repository of architecture assets and promote reuse across the organization.

Technologies

• API
• Architect
• Cloud
• DevSecOps
• ERP
• Support
• Security
• TOGAF
• Web
• microservices

More

We are Munich Re, located in London, England, United Kingdom, and hiring within our Information Technology team. We offer the opportunity to work on application transformation and modernization initiatives in a role focused on solution architecture, innovation, and enterprise alignment. We encourage applicants to apply even if their experience does not align perfectly with every requirement.

last updated 40 week of 2026