Overview
Solution Architect
About the Role
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Solution Architect to join our established team.
This is a senior, technical role, in which you’ll utilise your technical knowledge to understand and challenge business requirements, accurately translating these into clearly defined IT solutions.
This is a senior, technical role, in which you’ll utilise your technical knowledge to understand and challenge business requirements, accurately translating these into clearly defined IT solutions.
We offer a hybrid working model, meaning our selected candidate will be able to work both from home and from either our Bournemouth or Hitchin offices.
Key Responsibilities
- Liaising with colleagues at all levels to plan and shape business ideas, and translate them into written IT solutions, to include technical solution outlines, rough costs and resourcing.
- Collaborating with business analysts and IT teams to define full solution designs for projects, then providing these to our solution delivery teams for building.
- Acting as a technical lead on complex projects involving multiple delivery teams.
Providing IT solutions assurance and technical coordination with third-party suppliers for projects involving third party applications, development and hosting. - Incorporating standards, compliance and strategy in all design work, as specified by the solution architecture lead.
Creating and assessing technology proposals for the architecture Board, and design decisions for the Technical Design Authority. - Assessing and communicating architecture risk.
- Providing solutions using architectural steer, coordination and quality assessment for programmes of work (this may involve coordinating and checking colleagues’ work).
- Supporting the work of the IT Programme and Project Managers in developing and maintaining a high-quality pipeline of design work for solution development.
About You
Our ideal candidate will…
- Have experience of working within financial services and/or life and pensions insurance (desirable).
- Understand both modern and legacy architectures.
- Demonstrate knowledge and experience in digital architecture for web, mobile applications and API’s, various architecture programmes such as microservice, cloud and security architecture.
- Have an understanding of business intelligence and data science.
- Be familiar with DevOps and agile working, along with offshore partner experience.
- Be able to carry out application development tasks.
- Have experience of systems integration, package selection, RFP support, third party SaaS, and using managed service platforms.
- Demonstrate proven experience of working in an architecture role on projects, providing solution design, project support and delivery of project architecture to drive out cost effective solutions.
- Showcase excellent communication and negotiation skills.
- Effectively work under pressure to meet targets and manage conflicting priorities.
- Be able to work collaboratively with others.
- Effectively use architecture frameworks, techniques and methods.
Please note that we are unable to offer Skilled Worker Visa Sponsorship for this role. Therefore, you must ensure that you are eligible to work in the UK without our sponsorship in order for your application to be considered.
If you are offered this role as an internal secondment, please note your base band benefits will not change during the secondment.
Rewards & Benefits
This role is a Band C in the LV= Structure.
At LV= Life and Pensions, you’ll go above and beyond to do the right thing for our customers. We’ll reward your hard work with an attractive, competitive salary and benefits package, which includes:
If you are offered this role as an internal secondment, please note your base band benefits will not change during the secondment.
Rewards & Benefits
This role is a Band C in the LV= Structure.
At LV= Life and Pensions, you’ll go above and beyond to do the right thing for our customers. We’ll reward your hard work with an attractive, competitive salary and benefits package, which includes:
- 30 days’ holiday.
- The opportunity to buy or sell up to two days of holiday.
- An annual bonus scheme based on company and personal performance.
- Flexible benefits, including a cycle to work scheme, personal accident insurance, critical illness cover, private medical insurance, and dental insurance.
- Competitive pension scheme – LV= Life and Pensions will double-match the amount you pay, up to 14% (subject to National Minimum Wage requirements).
- Group Life Assurance of four times your basic pay to your dependents (you’ll have the option to increase this to 8 x cover).
- Group Income Protection, if you enrol into the pension scheme and reach 5 years of service.
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) service for support when you need it.
- Virtual GP service.
- Shared parental leave.
- Up to 20% discount on our life products for you and your immediate family.
We’re proud of our inclusive culture at LV= and, as an equal-opportunity employer, we continually work to remove unconscious bias from our recruitment process. We value our colleagues for what they bring to our team regardless of any protected status or characteristics they may have. Talk to us about flexible working as part of your application; if it’s right for you, our members and customers, and our business, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen.
We’re also open to conversations about flexible working as part of your application – if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen.
