Solution Architect, Senior Manager, Insurance Technology

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Connect to your Industry

As part of Wealth & Insurance Technology (WInTech), you'll be working with a multitude of market leading teams from Deloitte to deliver value to our clients across the full delivery lifecycle starting from strategy and proposition definition, to detailed operations and tech design, and being part of engineering and implementation teams to deliver for our clients. We have a diverse team with vast knowledge, experience and backgrounds enabling us to provide the best value to our clients. Within our team you will have the opportunity to work alongside and collaborate with industry experts as well as having access to a range of both internal and industry certified learning courses and qualifications.

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Wealth & Insurance Technology (WInTech) adopts a business led approach to achieving technology enabled transformation.

Our Insurance and Wealth Management clients engage us to solve the complex business problems they are facing in the current market and environment. We help clients shape their technology strategies in response to new competition or shift in technologies. At the heart of those strategies, are modern and innovative solution architectures. As part of this team, you will be focused on our Insurance clients, working alongside likeminded specialists from across the Global and General Insurance teams at Deloitte, and be able to quickly build upon any existing technology, industry and consultancy experience.

As a Senior Manager, the roles and responsibilities of the position include:

• Leading delivery programmes by creation of modern Solution Architectures and Technical Designs, collaborating with multi capability teams, senior business and IT stakeholders, managing senior stakeholders and taking accountability for the quality and timely delivery of your team's deliverables.
• Support clients in creating or providing perspective on their technology strategies, roadmaps, or delivery programmes; ensuring investment in the right technology and delivering in the right order; building effective client relationships with senior and peer-level stakeholders across all business and technical domains including IT and Operations.
• Perform a tech lead role in guiding the client throughout the project/programme lifecycle, leading technology architecture engagements, including overseeing multiple technology workstreams.
• Provide technical design governance, solution quality assurance and design reviews to keep complex technology programmes on track against industry good practice and standards.
• Lead the generation of thought leadership and continuous capability development of the Solution Architecture practice to ensure we stay at the cutting edge of the technology developments applicable to the Insurance industry.
• Strengthen and develop our architecture capability by coaching junior team members and leading the definition and implementation of Deloitte accelerators
• Lead and contribute to business development work, bringing an entrepreneurial mindset, leading the development of our key propositions to market through pre-sales, bid preparation and client presentations.
• Lead definition for bids and proposals including opportunities involving independent technology architecture engagements and large-scale technology transformations.
• Help drive the continued growth of the Insurance practice including supporting the firm's commitment to creating a more diverse and inclusive culture.

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:

• Proven solution architecture experience, deep technology knowledge, and experience in designing and implementing end-to-end solution architectures.
• Demonstrated experience of delivering innovative solutions as part of a digital transformation programmes, including cross platform integration of emerging technology solutions with existing or new core platforms.
• Experience in operating within an architectural design or technology delivery function within a leading firm within the Insurance industry, consulting firms, InsurTech or leading firm outside of Financial Services.
• Experience or deep understanding in at least one Insurance sector: Commercial Lines (e.g. Complex, Commercial, Specialty inc. Lloyds Market, SME and Delegated Business) and/or Personal Lines (i.e. Retail, Aggregators, Direct Broker, etc.), and the underlying Insurance business processes across the value chain (i.e. Policy Administration, Underwriting, Billing, Claims, Reporting, Reinsurance).
• Deep understanding of End-To-End Insurance lifecycle; Working knowledge of a typical End-To-End IT architecture, key systems, and key challenges for at least one Insurance sector (listed above).
• Demonstrated technology delivery experience including an understanding of all stages of the delivery lifecycle (e.g. inception, discovery, design, delivery, and transition).
• Demonstrated knowledge or in-depth understanding of at multiple key architectural domains - including data, integration, business, application, and operational architecture (including infrastructure, security, and networking).
• Proven knowledge of typical vendors in retail and/or commercial insurance including emerging low-code/no-code platforms
• Understanding of wider vendor landscape, and proven experience of vendor assessment and selection as a part of RFI/RFP process
• Experience of working with insurance vendors, third party service providers and management of vendor relationships
• Experience in leading assessment of IT landscapes, business drivers and understanding impact of emerging technologies to define target and transition state architectures.
• Experience of defining technology strategy as a part of architecture delivery engagements
• Providing technical design governance, solution quality assurance and design reviews to keep complex technology programmes on track against industry good practice and standards.
• Experience of leading teams or workstreams within a wider complex digital transformation programme, able to work closely with developers, testers and other agile roles to help shape delivery.
• Understanding and experience in delivering through various ways of working, including waterfall and various agile methodologies
• Demonstrated experience of owning or developing architectural artefacts, such as high-level design documents, reference architectures, functional or technical design specifications and integration designs etc.
• Understanding of Cloud capability and solutions including application, business case and benefits.
• Analysing and defining solution options and brokering buy-in, consensus and decision making from technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management skills: proven track record in independently engaging and managing a range of client and internal stakeholders, including senior client stakeholders.
• Ability to analyse and define solution options and broker buy-in, gather consensus and drive decision making from business and IT stakeholders.

Desirable Experience:

• Familiarity with modern software delivery tooling, for example, Jira, Confluence, QA and CI/CD tools.
• A proven adaptability and ability to shift focus and work with varied subject matters across different projects.
• Appreciation of emerging technology and trends in the Insurance industry, for example Cloud solutions, GenAI, Underwriting Workbenches or emerging London Market platforms
• Certification or demonstrated knowledge of one of the major Cloud Service Providers - Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure Platform.
• Certification or demonstrated knowledge and delivery experience with one or more core Insurance applications (e.g. Guidewire, DuckCreek, among others).
• Experience leveraging emerging technology within the Insurance domain.
• A background in software engineering or experience with hands-on technology development and delivery.
• Industry certifications such as BCS, Agile/Scrum, SAFe, among others.
• Enterprise or solution architecture certification (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman).

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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.

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"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 (Edinburgh, Glasgow, 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.

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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