Senior Solution Architect in London

This job is with Munich Re, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community.

Responsibilities

• Develop application and system roadmaps associated with applications transformation and modernization.
• Develop flexible, adaptable, modular, and reusable solution designs in collaboration with business stakeholders and the IT development teams while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Support the definition of high-level operational models, and prepare business cases in alignment with the IT security and quality guidelines.
• Present business cases for operational and tactical technical initiatives for approval, funding, and prioritization.
• Uphold appropriate solution architecture governance processes and tools while maintaining focus on design patterns and technology standards.
• Be the accountable individual for the finalization, acceptance, and approval of solutions you architected by relevant stakeholders.
• Act as an enabler of Agile and DevSecOps practices in collaboration with product delivery and operation support teams.
• Explore, evaluate, and promote technology innovation within the organization.
• Review high-level designs with technical leads and developers, review code, enforce best practices, assist with debugging critical issues, and enforce performance testing to deliver efficient and performant applications.
• Identify technology risk(s) of initiatives you are leading as an architect and develop corresponding mitigation strategies.
• Stay current on, evaluate, and recommend the use of cutting-edge technologies and methods, considering their technical pros and limitations.
• Leverage market and technology trends to identify the business benefits of alternative technical solutions.
• Support the requirements gathering process to right-size initiatives and solution strategy.
• Collaborate with development teams and assist with the application of Agile and DevSecOps techniques within architecture and designs.
• Create comprehensive solution architecture specification documents and other required documentation.
• Help maintain a business unit-level repository of architecture assets (platforms, services, APIs, technical debt, etc.) and promote reuse across the organization.

Knowledge And Skills

• Experience in the insurance (e.g. UW, Claim, Policy Issuance) ideally with Guidewire.
• Exceptional analytical and critical thinking skills, with thorough attention to detail.
• Excellent planning, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of design and implementation of solutions and systems using custom built and CoTS / MoTS applications hosted in the cloud and on-prem.
• Experience designing solutions including policy administration systems, ERP, and customer/agent-facing portals.
• Substantial knowledge of the system development life cycle and the scaled agile methodology. Certifications preferred.
• TOGAF certification is a significant plus.
• Demonstrate competence to work at the highest technical level of all phases of system architecture design, using state-of-the-art rule/framework-based architecture, object-oriented component analysis, and proficiency in web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, and enterprise application architecture.
• Ability to guide and mentor development teams on sound design and coding principles, best practices in API based, Micro Services, and Cloud technologies.
• Experience in integration architectures from Service Bus to API mediation and event bus models.
• Strong knowledge of contemporary technologies and business trends that allows architecture to solve problems in a creative and cost-effective manner.

If you are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with everything outlined, or you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the candidate we are looking for!