Senior Solution Architect

Markel Corporation; London, Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to shape and deliver complex business solutions. In this pivotal role, you will partner with senior IT and business stakeholders, design robust IT solutions, and ensure adherence to architectural standards. You will balance multiple priorities, challenge the status quo, and contribute to the International IT function. This opportunity offers a great starting salary, annual bonus, and a strong benefits package, including generous holiday allowances and professional development support. If you are ready to make a meaningful impact in IT, this role is for you!

Benefits

Annual bonus

25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays

Company pension scheme

Private medical and dental cover

Life assurance

Income protection

Season ticket loan

Opportunities for career development

Qualifications

• Proven track record as a Senior IT Architect in large Enterprises.
• Experience designing IT solution architectures with technology transitions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain IT Roadmaps across multiple domains.
• Communicate architecture solutions to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

IT Solution Architecture

Microsoft Technology Stack

Negotiation Skills

Agile Delivery Framework

Waterfall Delivery Framework

Business Capability Assessment

Communication Skills

Tools

Ardoq

ArchiMate

Automation Tools

Cloud Technologies (Microsoft Azure)

Job description

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Senior Solution Architect

Apply locations: London - UK, Leeds - UK

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted Yesterday

Job requisition id: R0020079

Looking for a role that will have a meaningful impact in IT?

We are looking for an individual to shape and deliver complex business solutions in an Enterprise context.

The opportunity:

You will partner with senior IT & business stakeholders, understand their needs, layout future state and transition roadmaps then design robust, pragmatic and efficient IT solutions to address those needs. You will be pivotal to the International IT function and will act as the “bridge” between the various IT delivery groups, the business units and supporting functions such as procurement, Security and PMO.

Supporting our Wholesale, National Markets and Shared Services business units, you will balance multiple competing priorities and challenge the status quo to achieve optimum outcomes.

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborates with IT Business Leads and Business Stakeholders to develop, maintain and curate the IT Roadmaps across multiple domains.
• Contributes to IT Architectural bodies (Design Authority and Architecture Review Board) ensuring all solutions adhere to Markel EA standards, principles, security, operational and regulatory requirements.
• Conducts Business Capability assessments and maps these to current and future state IT solutions.
• Captures and analyses specific business requirements and creates appropriate solution designs ensuring all functional and non-functional requirements are properly satisfied. These include Conceptual Architecture, HLD and LLD artefacts.
• Develops and shapes investment business cases in conjunction with colleagues across Markel.
• Builds relationships with architects across Markel globally (Data/Infrastructure/Security/Integration); participates in Enterprise Architecture activities.
• Seeks opportunities to simplify, automate, rationalise and improve the efficiency of our IT solutions.
• Creates application upgrade, migration and retirement strategies that align to our plan whilst ensuring dependencies, risks are identified and mitigated accordingly.
• Communicates architecture solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences ensuring the communication style used is appropriate for the intended audience.

Our must-haves:

• A proven track record as a Senior IT Architect in large and complex Enterprises.
• Demonstrable experience designing IT solution architectures with corresponding technology phase transitions and migration plans where necessary.
• Credibility articulating complex technology concepts and solutions to non-technical audiences.
• Experience negotiating and contributing to contracts for the provision of IT systems and services.
• Expertise of Microsoft technology stack, platforms and components (o/s, DB, web, application).
• Experience of working within both Waterfall and Agile delivery frameworks.
• Experience working with multiple external delivery partners in the execution of IT projects.

The following skills, knowledge and experience are desirable but are not essential:

• Experience of Insurance Industry processes, applications, solutions & architectures.
• Experience of Automation tools / technologies (BPMN / Workflow / RPA).
• Experience of PaaS, IaaS, SaaS deployment models especially in a Public Cloud.
• Knowledge of designing for “cloud native” technologies and tooling ideally using Microsoft Azure.
• Basic knowledge of the relevant use cases for Enterprise Service Bus tools.
• Knowledge of API and micro services-based architectures desirable (this is not a development role).
• Experience of architecture modelling tools (Ardoq, ArchiMate or similar).

Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.

What’s in it for you?

• A great starting salary plus annual bonus & strong benefits package.
• 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy/sell extra leave.
• Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer.
• There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career and we can provide the support needed to do just that!

Are you ready to play your part?

Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at [e-mail] or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations that may be needed.

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