Strategic Enterprise Architect — Cloud & Insurance

Coforge; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Coforge is seeking an Enterprise Architect to lead technology and architecture strategy across a Commercial & Specialty Insurance environment in London. Hybrid work with 2–3 days in the office, and permanent employment.

You will drive enterprise-wide architecture strategy, cloud transformation, integration, governance, and modernisation initiatives while partnering with senior stakeholders to translate business needs into secure, scalable technology solutions.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent professional experience in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Preferred: Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Significant experience as an Enterprise Architect, Solution Architect, or equivalent.
• Strong Microsoft Azure and cloud architecture expertise.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise, application, integration, data, and technology architecture.
• Develop architecture principles, standards, patterns, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps.
• Define current-state, target-state, and transition architectures.
• Provide architecture leadership for major transformation, migration, and modernisation programmes.
• Work with business stakeholders and Product Owners to translate business capabilities and requirements into technology solutions.
• Support insurance platforms and processes covering Underwriting, Policy Administration, Policy Servicing, Claims, Reinsurance, Delegated Authority, and Bordereaux/BDX.
• Design and govern cloud and hybrid architectures, preferably using Microsoft Azure.
• Define integration architectures across SaaS, legacy, and cloud platforms using APIs, messaging, and secure file-based integration.
• Ensure solutions address security, identity, resilience, disaster recovery, data protection, and operational requirements.
• Lead architecture reviews, maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and support Architecture Review Boards.
• Assess technology products, vendors, SaaS solutions, and build-versus-buy options.
• Identify technology risks, technical debt, end-of-life platforms, and opportunities to simplify the technology estate.
• Develop technology roadmaps aligned with business priorities and investment plans.
• Influence senior stakeholders and delivery teams and provide clear, pragmatic architectural decisions.
• Significant experience as an Enterprise Architect, Solution Architect, or equivalent.
• Strong experience across enterprise, application, integration, cloud, and technology architecture.
• Proven experience delivering complex technology transformation and modernisation programmes.
• Strong Microsoft Azure and cloud architecture expertise.
• Experience with SaaS, legacy systems, and enterprise integration.
• Experience with architecture governance and senior stakeholder management.
• Strong understanding of security, identity, infrastructure, and data architecture.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and problem-solving skills.
• Commercial & Specialty Insurance / Reinsurance.
• Lloyd's / London Market experience.
• Underwriting and Policy Administration platforms.
• Delegated Authority, Binder, and BDX solutions.
• Exposure Management and insurance data platforms.
• Legacy modernisation and cloud migration.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder management

Communication

Problem solving

Leadership

Security architecture

Data architecture

Integration architecture

Architecture governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering

Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Tools

Microsoft Azure

API architecture tooling

Job description

Coforge is seeking an Enterprise Architect to lead technology and architecture strategy across a Commercial & Specialty Insurance environment in London. Hybrid work with 2–3 days in the office, and permanent employment.

You will drive enterprise-wide architecture strategy, cloud transformation, integration, governance, and modernisation initiatives while partnering with senior stakeholders to translate business needs into secure, scalable technology solutions.