Lead Platform Architect

Lloyd’s is the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance marketplace. We share the collective intelligence and risk sharing expertise of the market’s brightest minds, working together for a braver world. Our role is to inspire courage so that tomorrow’s progress isn’t limited by today’s risks. Our shared values are that we are brave, we are stronger together, we do the right thing, and we guide what we do and how we act. If you share our values and our passion to build a future that’s more sustainable, resilient and inclusive, you’ll find a home at Lloyd’s – build a braver future with us.

Lloyd’s is seeking to recruit a Platform Architect who will shape the enterprise platforms that underpin Lloyd’s. You’ll simplify our technology landscape, reduce cost and risk, and help teams deliver change with confidence. You’ll do it in a way that strengthens resilience, supports innovation, and creates long‑term value for the market. This senior role has real influence: you set direction, govern standards, and work with leaders across technology, operations, risk and the market.

Why Lloyd’s

Lloyd’s is modernising how the world’s most trusted insurance marketplace operates. Platform architecture plays a critical role in making that happen. Lloyd’s is a place where your expertise matters. We operate at global scale, with a unique role in turning emerging risks into insurable realities. Our platforms support a marketplace trusted around the world. Our strategy, Advance and Protect, is shaping how we work for the future.

What You’ll Do

• You’ll provide clear, pragmatic architectural leadership across Lloyd’s enterprise platforms, always focused on outcomes and grounded in value.
• Define and maintain target and transitional platform architectures.
• Set architecture standards, patterns and guardrails for teams and suppliers.
• Shape platform roadmaps and investment decisions, balancing cost, risk and value.
• Improve security, resilience and compliance with our security and data leaders.
• Reduce total cost of ownership through optimisation and rationalisation.
• Accelerate delivery through reusable patterns, automation and CI/CD standards.
• Drive platform adoption and simplification, reducing duplication and technical debt.
• Govern API‑first and event‑driven integration across platforms.
• Lead platform selection, vendor governance and exit strategies.
• Ensure platform data handling meets governance and regulatory requirements.

You won’t be embedded in delivery teams; you’ll influence early, guide decisions and set clear direction that sticks.

What You’ll Bring

• We’re looking for an experienced Platform or Enterprise Architect who knows how to lead through influence.
• Experience in complex, regulated environments (financial services or insurance is ideal, but not essential).
• Confidence engaging senior leaders and diverse stakeholders.
• A strong track record of defining and governing architectural standards.
• Experience with cloud and SaaS platforms, API‑led and event‑driven architectures.
• A solid understanding of security, resilience and non‑functional requirements.
• Knowledge of data management and AI‑ready architectures, including the safe use of GenAI.
• The ability to explain complex decisions in clear, business‑focused terms.
• Most importantly, you focus on what matters. You know how to turn direction into action and you know how to make change stick.

Platforms in scope

You’ll work across Lloyd’s core enterprise platforms, including:

• Finance and accounting
• Investment management
• Microsoft 365
• CRM and digital portals
• Integration and workflow platforms
• Document and content services
• Data and analytics platforms

And where the right platform doesn’t yet exist, you’ll help define the answer.

Diversity and inclusion are a focus for us – Lloyd’s aims to build a diverse, inclusive environment that reflects the global markets we work in. One where everyone is treated with dignity and respect to achieve their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making workplace adjustments, we offer regular health and wellbeing programmes, diversity and inclusion training, employee networks, mentoring and volunteering opportunities, as well as investment into your professional development.

We understand that our work/life balance is important to us all and that a hybrid of working from the office and home can offer a great level of flexibility. Flexible working forms part of a total reward approach which offers a host of other benefits over and above the standard offering (generous pension, healthcare, wellbeing etc). These include financial support for training, education & development, a benefit allowance (to spend on our flexible benefits such as gym membership, dental insurance, extra holiday or to partake in our cycle to work scheme), employee recognition scheme and various employee discount schemes.