Solution Architect

Tesco Insurance; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider is seeking a Solutions Architect to join their Technology team. This role involves providing leadership in solution design across various initiatives, ensuring compliance with regulations, and delivering resilient systems. Candidates should be experienced in Agile frameworks and possess strong problem-solving skills. Competitive salary and excellent benefits are included in this exciting opportunity.

Benefits

Colleague pension scheme

Private Healthcare

Performance related bonus

Generous holiday allowance

Colleague Clubcard discount

Family-oriented initiatives

Ongoing learning and training opportunities

Qualifications

• Must have experience in designing secure and compliant systems.
• Ability to work in Agile environments, particularly SAFe.
• Strong communication skills to liaise with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide end to end solution design leadership across change initiatives.
• Translate business requirements into coherent solution architectures.
• Partner with teams to ensure compliance with FCA and GDPR regulations.

Skills

Big Picture Thinking

Strong Communication

Collaboration & Leadership

Agile & SAFe Experience

Problem Solving

Cloud Knowledge

Security & Compliance Awareness

Focus on Quality & Performance

Job description

Salary £72,200 - £86,640 & Excellent Benefits

Location - Edinburgh, Glasgow or Newcastle – Hybrid

Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; you’ll work in the office 2 days per week.

Closing Date – 28th November 2025

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for. And that means we always work with heart. Whether we’re helping our customers or looking after our people, you’ll find there’s a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.

Opportunity

We’re looking for a Solutions Architect to join our Technology team within Tesco Insurance and Money & Services.

The Role

It’s an exciting time in our business. In your role you’ll provide end to end solution design leadership across change initiatives, ensuring that technology solutions are secure, compliant, scalable, and cost effective while aligning to enterprise architecture standards and business outcomes.

Operating within SAFe Agile (across ARTs and value streams), you’ll translate business epics and features into coherent solution architectures, manage solution intent, govern non functional requirements (NFRs) and support incremental delivery through PI Planning and enabler work.

The role balances hands on design with governance, partnering with Product, Engineering, Cyber, Data, and Compliance to deliver resilient, customer centric change that meets FCA/PRA, UK GDPR, and operational resilience expectations. So why not bring your talent, expertise, and skills to join our friendly team!

You’ll need (min exp)

• Big Picture Thinking – Understands how all the parts of a system fit together — from apps and data to infrastructure — and designs solutions that work across the business.
• Strong Communication – Can explain complex technical ideas in simple terms to both technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Collaboration & Leadership – Works closely with product managers, engineers, and other teams to guide decisions and keep projects on track.
• Agile & SAFe Experience – Comfortable working in Agile environments, especially within the SAFe framework, including planning and delivering in short, focused cycles.
• Problem Solving – Quickly identifies challenges and finds practical, secure, and scalable solutions that meet business needs.
• Cloud Knowledge – Understands how to design systems using cloud platforms (like Microsoft Azure), ensuring they are secure, cost-effective, and reliable.
• Security & Compliance Awareness – Designs systems that protect customer data and meet UK financial regulations, including FCA, GDPR, and operational resilience standards.
• Focus on Quality & Performance – Ensures systems are fast, reliable, and easy to maintain, with clear plans for monitoring, support, and future growth.

What’s in it for you?

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Healthcare and Virtual GP Service 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday as an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
• Take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes & Green car vehicle leasing scheme.

Everyone’s welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Additional Information

We also know the importance of balancing work with life’s other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.

Interviews

Commencing early December 2025.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.

We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centers are open seven days a week.

Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!