Lead Solution Architect in City of London

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Lead Business Value Delivery Architect / Lead Solution Architect and play a pivotal role in taking client-facing insurance solutions from the sales cycle through delivery and into Saa S and AI platform migration, holding every engagement to a designed business outcome rather than an evolving list of requirements.

About The Rol e
This is a role that sits between presales and delivery and stays engaged across both, spanning P&C, Life, and in future Reinsurance, with a particular focus on the non functional and operational requirements our industry consistently under-invests in.

If you are deeply fluent in insurance product suites and platform roadmaps, comfortable holding both a head of claims and an engineer in the same conversation, and driven to keep clients and internal teams honest to the outcomes they signed up for - we'd love to hear from yo u.
Working model: London or Cardiff (Hybrid flexib le)
What You Wil l Do
You'll own the professional and content thread of the solution end to end – across four connected areas of im pact:
Value Definition – Presales solution

• design
  Engage during the sales cycle, from general discovery through down select, to build product and industry context on the oppor
• tunity. Frame the solution around the client's business outcomes, not a requirements checklist. Map what they are trying to achieve to what the platform actually de
• livers. Establish a business outcome baseline with the client: what they will be able to do post go live that they cannot do today, and how both sides will meas
• ure it. Own the definition of done, agreed jointly with the
• client.

Explicitly cover non functional and operational requirements: performance, scale, availability, security, integration, data migration, operability, and support, rather than leaving them to surface in

• build. Feed into the implementation plan: the right order of implementation and the known dependencies, especially those on the
• client.

Where the platform does not meet the client's expected outcomes, own the resolution with Product and R&D.

Either secure a commitment to build it into the core platform, with timelines aligned accordingly, or design it into the extension layer shipped with the core.

• The SA owns these convers
• ations. Act as the next layer of depth behind the presales and industry expert team. Presales surfaces the opportunity, the SA architects the so
• lution. Support the bid with clearly stated assumptions. The fixed price commercial construct itself is owned by Sales and the PD.
  Delivery i
• ntegrity
  Move into rapid planning immediately after signing. Harden the solution against what the platform delivers, steering toward standard configuration over bespo
• ke build. Hand over a clear, documented solution design to the delivery team at the start of build, and safeguard the integrity of that design through
• delivery.

Hold all parties, internal teams and the client, accountable to the agreed business outcomes and how they will be achieved.

This is outcome and professional accountability.

• The PM or PD holds delivery and the client to scope, timeline, and com
• mitments. Stay engaged through quarterly business reviews to catch outcome or value dri
• ft early. Apply the definition of done. The project is complete only when the client is positioned to realise the value agreed at the outset, not simply when the system g oes live.

Migration
For assigned clients, own migration outcomes through the analyse, dispose, bridge, and migrate framework, across the existing product portfolio

• and beyond. Define, with each client, the specific value the migration unlocks and the KPIs that will confirm it. Migration is a value conversation, not only a tec hnical one.
  Tooling, AI, and continuous
• improvement
  Serve as the first internal customer for AI in delivery, and own the tools and the standard for how t
• hey are used. Set which source wins when inputs conflict: signed document over email, email over deck, deck
• over verbal. Set what a human must verify in AI drafted work, rather than appr
• ove on sight. Flag what the inputs do not say: tacit process, stakeholder disagreement, edge cases, not just what the A
• I summarised.

Work as part of the SA group to improve processes, outputs, and tools for quicker, better implementations, especially the Saa S migration factory, including a feedback loop from delivery back to discovery to recalibrate where discovery got the scope wrong.
What Succ

• ess Looks Like
  Every signed programme has a documented, client agreed business outcome baseline, a joint definition of done, and go live su
• ccess criteria. Non functional and operational requirements are surfaced and designed in up front, not disco
• vered in build. Platform gaps are resolved deliberately, through a core platform commitment or an extension layer build, rather than emerging d
• uring delivery. Delivery builds to the handed over design with minimal rework driven by scope or requirem
• ents ambiguity. The SA group's processes, tools, and outputs measurably shorten implementat ions over time.
  What We

Are Looking For
You have a track record designing or leading solution design in complex, enterprise insurance implementations, ideally spanning both presa

• les and delivery. Ability to speak credibly to both a head of claims and an engineer, across P&C, Life,
• and Reinsurance. Strong on non functional and operational requirements: performance, scale, availability, security, integration, operability, not only f
• unctional design.

Demonstrated ability to hold the professional and outcome vector, keeping internal teams and clients aligned to agreed business outcomes.

Given that this accountability is a core responsibility of the role, it is a required skill, not simply a welcome p

• ersonality trait. Experience with, or strong aptitude for, legacy to Saa S or core platfor
• m migration work. Comfortable operating in a function that is still being built. Process and tooling will be defined in parallel with
• the first deals.

You ideally have hands-on experience with cloud-native platforms and a proven track record working at Born-in-the-Cloud (BIC) companies, bringing modern Saa S delivery practices to a global enterp

• rise environment. Proficient in leveraging AI-driven tools and platforms to design, optimize, and scale enterprise soluti on architectures.

Interested?

We'd love to hear from you.

Our TA partner evija. briska@sapiens. com is your contact for any questions.

We kindly ask that you apply via our we
bsite or Linked In.