Senior Solutions Architect - Insurance

Capco; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative consultancy is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect specializing in insurance to drive exceptional customer experiences and transform business processes. In this role, you'll leverage your expertise in modern solution design and cloud computing to help clients navigate the complexities of the financial services sector. Join a dynamic team that values curiosity and creativity, where you'll engage with leading banks and contribute to impactful projects. This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of technological advancements in the insurance domain, making a significant difference in how clients operate and succeed in a competitive landscape.

Benefits

Ongoing learning opportunities

Flat, non-hierarchical structure

Diverse and inclusive culture

Enhanced family-friendly benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in customer-centric solution design and cloud computing platforms.
• Strong technical background in insurance domain solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design exceptional customer experiences and transform business processes.
• Integrate technology landscape into emerging capabilities for clients.

Skills

Customer centricity

Modern solution design

Cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Technical Design Authority experience

Stakeholder management

Agile methodology

Emerging market trends in insurance

Business development experience

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Senior Solutions Architect - Insurance

Joining Capco means joining an organisation that is committed to an inclusive working environment where you’re encouraged to #BeYourselfAtWork. We celebrate individuality and recognize that diversity and inclusion, in all forms, is critical to success. It’s important to us that we recruit and develop as diverse a range of talent as we can and we believe that everyone brings something different to the table – so we’d love to know what makes you different.

ABOUT CAPCO

Capco is a global technology and business consultancy, focused on the financial services sector. We are passionate about helping our clients succeed in an ever-changing industry.

We are/have:

• Experts in Banking & Payments, Capital Markets, Insurance and Wealth & Asset Management
• Deep knowledge in financial services offering, including e.g. Finance, Risk and Compliance, Financial Crime, Core Banking etc.
• Committed to growing our business and hiring the best talent to help us get there.
• A growing Cloud community of professionals from architecture to advisory to delivery, founded on real delivery expertise.
• Focused on maintaining our nimble, agile and entrepreneurial culture.

Who are Capco Architects?

We are a team of people who are curious and willing to never stop learning. We have a passion for new technologies and understand how they can help deal with today’s business challenges. We have confidence in our ideas but we are modest about how we conduct ourselves. We have a proactive, innovative and flexible working style with a teaching mindset; coaching our junior architects through their work.

What are we looking for?

Capco is looking for Insurance Solution Architects to help our clients in the insurance domain leverage technology to maintain and improve their market leadership. We help clients by designing exceptional customer experiences, transforming business processes to adapt to changing needs, and integrating the overall technology landscape into emerging capabilities.

Our solution architects are pivotal team members, helping turn great ideas into actionable solutions using a range of business and technology capabilities.

This role is for you if you are looking for an outcome-oriented position as part of a creative and dynamic team helping insurance clients convert business needs to solutions using your experience in the domain and expertise in technology.

Skills & Experience

• Customer centricity – the ability to empathise with customers and create solutions designed to deliver a great customer experience.
• Knowledge of a range of architectural skills, including modern solution design, target operating models, solution estimation and planning, or architecture governance (ideally in an Agile context).
• Experience of cloud computing platforms, e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, and distributed computing environments for realizing insurance-specific solutions.
• A strong technical background with demonstrable expertise in applying the same in multiple solutions within the insurance domain.
• Experience of promoting designs through Technical Design Authority forums and exposure to wider Architecture governance processes.
• An understanding of the end-to-end technology delivery lifecycle, with exposure to working in Agile alongside product, engineering, and software delivery professionals.
• Existing knowledge and exposure to one or more of Investments, Wealth, Retirements, Pensions, Commercial Lines, London Markets, General and Life Insurance, and other related insurance domain areas.
• Ability to assess and adapt quickly to different technology and business contexts for delivering relevant designs.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with experience of engaging with senior stakeholders across teams for arriving at approved solutions.
• Keen interest in emerging market trends within insurance to identify future technology needs, options, and capabilities.
• Commercially minded with experience of business development and other capability development activities if joining at more senior grades (Principal Consultant/Managing Principal).

Desirable but not mandatory:

• Product Implementation experience

WHY JOIN CAPCO?

Because you are curious, because you want to know what is going on inside engaging projects with some of the largest banks in the world and because you want to work on projects that transform the financial services industry.

We offer:

• A work culture focused on innovation and creating lasting value for our clients and employees.
• Ongoing learning opportunities to help you acquire new skills or deepen existing expertise.
• A flat, non-hierarchical structure that will enable you to work with senior partners and directly with clients.
• A diverse, inclusive, meritocratic culture.
• Enhanced and competitive family-friendly benefits, including maternity/adoption/shared parental leave and paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause, and bereavement.