Solutions Architect

RSA; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company is seeking a Solutions Architect to join their CIO team in London. This role involves leading solution design and implementation for various projects, ensuring alignment with business goals. Candidates should have strong experience in multiple IT solution development disciplines and be familiar with DevOps practices. RSA offers a hybrid working environment, competitive salary and an excellent range of benefits.

Benefits

Pension contributions up to 11%

Flexible working environment

Continuous development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in application development, middleware, database management or cloud development.
• Experience with Microservice and Service Oriented Architecture design patterns.
• Ability to translate business strategy into solutions architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support solution design activities.
• Guide the implementation of a portfolio of solutions.
• Ensure solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance.

Skills

Microservices

Service Oriented Architecture

DevOps

DevSecOps

CI/CD Automation

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

SaltStack

Terraform

Ansible

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Solutions Architect

Job Title Solutions Architect Reference UK002713 Town London Business Line IS & Change

Introduction

At RSA, we believe insurance is about people, not things. We provide our inspiring colleagues the support and opportunity to grow together, shape the future, and win as a team. We are going through a transformation journey, providing our people with opportunity to be integral to improving our service and delivering better products to brokers and customers. We are a proud member of the Intact family, we feel part of something bigger, with a presence in North America, the UK and Europe. We have a bold ambition to become the best Commercial Lines business in the UK, demonstrated by our recent acquisition of NIG and Farmweb, allowing us to scale by leveraging our combined financial strength and importantly ensure our people feel the benefits of our joint capabilities. We are currently recruiting for a Solutions Architect to join our established and experienced CIO team here at RSA on a hybrid basis.

Your Role

As a Solutions Architect, you will lead and support solution design activities and guide the implementation of a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects, products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services. You will have a deep understanding of business goals, objective and business outcomes, business capabilities, value-streams, and business processes. The solutions architect drivers the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks to support the development of technology solutions and ensures that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards. You will create deliverables that articulates the design and deliver roadmaps for solutions — including systems (applications, processes and information), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.

About You

You will have experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including application development, middleware, database management or cloud development and an advanced knowledge of Microservice and Service Oriented Architecture design patterns. The role will also require deploying DevOps and DevSecOps best practice including CI/CD automation tools such as Azure DevOps, Git, SaltStack, Terraform and Ansible. The Key Accountabilities for the role will include being able to Translate Business Strategy into Solutions Architecture, leading Solutions Design and Analysis, Orchestrating Solutions Delivery and Facilitates and Collaborating to Deliver Business Outcomes. You will be Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and being comfortable, experienced and accomplished at working with business executives, and able to push back in a professional and diplomatic way.

What we offer you

At RSA we put our people first. We have adopted hybrid working as standard, to give you a better work/life balance and an excellent flexible working mindset. That is on top of a comprehensive range of benefits, including pension contributions of up to 11% looking after you now, and in the future. We will give you countless opportunities to continuously develop, alongside a diverse and passionate community of experts, the best the industry has to offer. You will be empowered to be your best self, do your best work, and make a meaningful impact. Our employee promise allows you to shape the future, win as a team, and grow with us.