Manager, Solution Architect - Insurance, Deloitte Digital

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Job description

Connect to your Industry

Want to shape the future of online experiences? So do we.

Part Business. Part Creative. Part Technology. One hundred per cent digital. At Deloitte Digital, we connect creativity with technology for business. Bringing empathy, ideas, and experience into digital transformation. Together with all of Deloitte, we create connections across the breadth of our people, organisation, and ecosystems to make an impact that matters to our clients and to society. We're a new type of creative digital consultancy that fuses strategy, tech and design to identify where businesses need to be, then get them there. Fast. Want to help us shape the future? We're looking for experienced practitioners from a consulting, design, tech or business background who can show our clients what's next, then work with our mixed-discipline team to make it happen.

As part of our Consultancy practice, your career with Deloitte Digital can take multiple paths. Including: customer and channel strategy, customer experience design, designing new service capabilities and operations, mobile, online and contact centre technology solutions, and related technology and operational change programmes.

We embrace the strengths of diverse talent within our team. You may have a brilliant mind, be a confident communicator or a nerd for all things digital, or you may have an impeccable business instinct, a collaborative outlook and a flair for big ideas.

We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

As an Insurance Architecture Enterprise and Solution Architect at Deloitte Digital, your role will involve collaborating with stakeholders to understand business needs and requirements in the insurance domain, specifically focusing on areas such as Policy Admin System, UW Workbench, L&P, Personal Lines, Commercial Insurance, or London Markets. You will design and develop enterprise-level architecture solutions that align with business goals and objectives, define and document architecture principles, standards, and guidelines, and provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams. Additionally, you will conduct architecture reviews, identify and evaluate emerging technologies, collaborate with cross-functional teams, develop and maintain architecture artifacts, provide expertise in resolving technical issues, and stay up-to-date with industry regulations and best practices.

• You collaborate with technical and non-technical peers to understand business needs and strategy
• You identify and evaluate emerging technologies, trends and practices, serving as an expert within the insurance industry
• You design enterprise-level solutions across all technology domains (e.g. networking, infrastructure, application) that meet functional and non-functional requirements
• You create and maintain architecture artifacts and technical documentation, using these to audit decision making, and support development and operate teams
• You define and influence architecture principles, standards and guardrails using specialist knowledge
• You facilitate and run architecture reviews and key governance forums
• You provide technical leadership to development teams, supporting the full software development lifecycle
• You work effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

You must have an aptitude and ambition to be a successful member of our consulting team working in digital transformation, application design and implementation, or process design and implementation. We seek independent thinkers who also thrive as part of a team, with excellent communication and presentation skills and who are enthusiastic and passionate for driving change and real impact in the Insurance industry.

As a solution architect, you will be technically minded and relish analysing the detail of complex problems to identify and deliver technical solutions, but also enjoy challenging yourself to work in new Insurance fields contributing to market facing propositions, client engagements and internal initiatives.

Essential Experience:

• You are experienced designing enterprise solutions on public cloud infrastructure using cloud-native technologies and open source frameworks
• You have deep knowledge of modern design patterns, standards, and architectures (e.g., Microservices, Event-Driven) and apply this to solve common problems when secure, performant solutions
• You have deep knowledge in areas that include Policy Administration Systems, Underwriting Workbench, Life and Pensions, Personal Lines, Commercial Insurance, or London Markets
• You have hands-on experience architecting solutions that integrate with core financial services systems (e.g. Policy Administration Systems, Core Banking Systems)
• You have demonstrable experience conducting architecture reviews and assessments
• You are experienced facilitating the delivery of agile project

Desirable

• You are Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), AWS, GCP or Azure architect certified
• Have experience architecting Salesforce solutions

Connect to your business - Consulting

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, and collaborative working. That's what connects us. That's what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest challenges around, join us. Together, we'll make an impact that matters.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte's clients include many of the world's largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of."

-Dan, Consulting

"I get to work on projects that help clients in a sector I feel truly passionate about."

-Rhiannon, Consulting

"Everyone always says "it's the people," and that's true. Working for a brand you feel proud of feels pretty good too. And you don't have any stress about fitting into a particular stereotype, because there are so many different types of people in Deloitte Digital."

-Gillian, Consulting

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in London with hybrid working. Our hybrid model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity. As well as remote working, you'll attend your local office, virtual collaboration spaces and client sites, depending on the requirements of the role.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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