At a Glance
- Tasks: Shape digital change in the insurance sector using cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions.
- Company: Join Accenture, a global leader in professional services with a culture of innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy 30 days vacation, private medical insurance, and extra leave for charity work.
- Other info: Collaborate with a dynamic team and grow your expertise in AI, cloud, and data architecture.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the insurance industry while developing your tech skills.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in tech roles, ideally in Financial Services or Insurance.
The predicted salary is between 72000 - 88000 £ per year.
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We are recruiting for talented technologists to join the Insurance Architecture team within Accenture’s UK Insurance & Financial Services Industry and Enterprise practice, helping us shape and deliver digital change for our clients.
Insurance Architecture is the dedicated digital architecture and technology team within Accenture’s UK Insurance & Financial Services Industry and Enterprise practice. We are a small, high-impact team of senior architects and technologists who shape and assure complex digital change for some of the UK’s leading insurers, life offices, wealth managers and platform providers, advising CIOs, CTOs and Chief Architects on major investment plans and technology and platform decisions.
Our work spans General Insurance, Life, Pensions & Investments, London Markets, Capital Markets and the wider Financial Services market, supporting clients in areas such as journey to cloud, digital transformation in underwriting and claims, applications of AI and GenAI, and large-scale platform re-platforming.
Our operating model is built around six functional pillars – Solution Architecture; Enterprise Architecture & System Design; ML, AI & GenAI; Data Architecture; Cyber Security; and Cloud & Infrastructure. Each team member develops deep expertise in one or more pillars, leading upskilling for colleagues so that we can flex quickly onto client engagements with both depth and resilience.
In our team you will learn how to:
- Invent and provide solutions to real-world problems across our Insurance and Financial Services clients, leveraging the latest technologies including GenAI and agentic AI.
- Act as the communication bridge between business and technology teams, helping ensure that solutions are aligned to true business needs.
- Build deep client relationships and bring together the wider Accenture business to create differentiated offerings and enable the best outcomes for our clients.
- Deliver tangible, transformational change for clients and develop points of view that shape the insurance and financial services industries.
As a Solution/Technical Architect within Insurance Architecture, you will:
- Contribute across all six of our functional pillars on client engagements – with a particular focus on Applications, Integration and Data as well as AI, Cloud and Cyber Security – and grow toward becoming a future pillar specialist.
- Help define and deliver enterprise and solution architecture artefacts for clients across Insurance and Financial Services.
- Become familiar with and help to enhance our industry specific reference architecture frameworks.
- Shape and deliver discrete, high-quality outputs on engagements.
- Build credibility with client stakeholders through clear, well-structured analysis and presentation.
- Bring your own perspective to growing and diversifying the Insurance Architecture team, mentoring more junior colleagues.
We are looking for candidates with experience and skills such as:
- 5+ years of experience in technology roles – ideally with exposure to Financial Services, Insurance or another regulated industry.
- Working knowledge of data architecture concepts and tools such as Databricks, Snowflake or equivalent.
- An appreciation of how technology can solve complex business problems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Familiarity with at least one major industry platform is highly desirable.
- A genuine desire to improve outcomes for clients and consumers, and willingness to travel within the UK and occasionally internationally.
Set yourself apart:
- Passion and enthusiasm for innovating in the insurance and financial services industries.
- Curiosity about the wider Insurance Architecture pillars.
- Experience of how AI/GenAI can be used within architecture and the wider change process.
- Ability to engage with stakeholders across business, technology and delivery teams.
- A distinctive emerging point of view that you can bring to internal forums and external events.
At Accenture, in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days’ leave per year for charitable work of your choice. Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners.
Consultant – Solution/Technology Architect, Insurance Architecture employer: Accenture
Accenture is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture in London that fosters innovation and collaboration. With competitive benefits like 30 days of vacation, access to fitness classes, and private medical insurance, employees are supported in achieving a healthy work-life balance while also having ample opportunities for professional growth and development within the rapidly evolving field of AI.
