Solution Architect

AXA Health; Bolton; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health insurance company in the UK is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to design and implement complex IT solutions across various technology platforms, including Azure and Salesforce. This role emphasizes agility and quality in solution design while collaborating with diverse teams. Excellent stakeholder management skills are essential. Competitive salary and a flexible working environment are offered.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary

Annual company & performance-based bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Life Assurance

Private health cover

28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Qualifications

• Experience and knowledge working as a solution architect or senior engineer.
• Proven experience across a range of technologies including Azure, .NET, and Salesforce.
• Influencing and negotiation skills, managing effective stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

• Define, design, and communicate complex IT solutions.
• Evaluate integration patterns and recommend solutions.
• Ensure performance and quality of applications through solution design.
• Work in agile teams adhering to Scrum or Kanban.

Skills

Experience as a solution architect

Knowledge of Azure

Proficiency in .NET

Experience with React

Understanding of Salesforce

Experience with SaaS and PaaS

Knowledge of API standards

Stakeholder management

Job description

It’s an exciting time to join the Technology team here at AXA Health, with significant investment planned in all UK&I businesses to transform, deliver new digital services to our customers, streamline, and automate our business processes, whilst ensuring the continued stability and performance of our legacy platforms. We're looking for an experienced Solution Architect to join our architecture and analysis function to help us make our goals a reality.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work across a broad range of initiatives and technologies working with enterprise architects, solution architects, product owners and engineers in a mixture of more traditional and agile delivery teams. Our change portfolio includes initiatives to improve our legacy platforms (predominantly Azure hosted .net), implement new SaaS/PaaS technology solutions and a broader digital transformation program introducing a new strategic Salesforce centred digital platform.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) towards the end of 2025. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. We’re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsibility for the definition, design and communication of complex IT solutions across a range of technology platforms
• Evaluating solution options, integration patterns and recommending the right one for a given situation ensuring compliance with company standards
• Assessing new technology solutions to meet business requirements
• Ensuring the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications through the solution design
• Working within both agile programs and teams, adhering to Scrum or Kanban principles and a more traditional waterfall style projects
• Contributing to the architecture runway and target architecture
• Working in a multi-vendor environment, providing direction and support to the delivery teams
• Supporting continuous improvement initiatives within the team and across the IT department
• Working with security and data protection officers so that solution is secure by design and compliant

Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we’re able to effectively manage interest.

Thus if you’re interested in joining us at AXA, please don’t hesitate to apply.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience and knowledge working as a solution architect, or senior engineer with a desire, aptitude and ability to move into solution architecture
• Proven experience across a range of technologies including Azure, .NET, React, Salesforce, SaaS and PaaS solutions
• Deep understanding of frontend digital architecture, design patterns, and interaction design principles
• Good knowledge of enterprise integrations patterns and technologies
• Experience of API architectural design standards including RESTful APIs and Open API
• Hands on experience integrating digital solutions with salesforce and salesforce marketing cloud
• Understanding of current and emerging technologies and their potential to deliver business benefits
• Influencing and negotiation skills, managing effective stakeholder relationships
• Ability to translate business strategy into technical solutions and business requirements into technical design

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer:

At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

• Competitive annual salary dependent on experience
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private health cover
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts

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Who we are:

At AXA Health, we’re passionate about helping our members to put their health first, whether that’s individuals and families, small businesses, or huge corporates. From fast access to diagnosis and treatment, to guidance and tools that can help them manage their health every day, not just when there’s a problem, our members can be confident we’ll guide them, every step of the way.