Enterprise Architect - Insurance, Pensions & Investments (IP&I)

Develop and maintain enterprise architecture roadmaps aligned with business strategy for Insurance, Pensions, and Investments.
- Define and communicate target-state architecture models supporting growth, modernization, efficiency, resilience, and regulatory compliance.
- Ensure alignment between business capabilities, technology investments, and enterprise technology strategies.
- Evolve architectural standards, principles, governance frameworks, and reference architectures.
- Oversee and assure solution architecture and design across multiple programs and portfolios.
- Provide guidance throughout discovery, feasibility, design, and delivery phases.
- Produce and review key architecture artefacts (e.g., solution designs, decision records, roadmaps, models).
- Define and support scalable, resilient cloud and infrastructure architectures (public, private, hybrid).
- Guide cloud adoption, infrastructure transformation, and ensure compliance with security and cloud standards.
- Define application and integration architecture patterns (API-first, microservices, event-driven) for modern digital platforms.
- Simplify and rationalize legacy technology estates and promote reuse of integration services and platforms.
- Support data platform and information architecture decisions (governance, analytics, privacy, regulatory).
- Ensure solutions address non-functional requirements: security, availability, resilience, scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Participate in architecture governance forums, assess risks/dependencies, and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Build strong relationships and influence direction with engineering, platform, product, security, and delivery teams.
- Communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support senior leadership in technology decision-making and investment planning.
- Leverage experience in enterprise, application, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud, and security architecture in large-scale environments.
- Demonstrate strong knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), containerization, and platform engineering.
- Utilize expertise in API-led, event-driven, microservices, and integration patterns.
- Work within Agile, DevOps, and product-centric delivery models.
- Apply knowledge of security, resilience, disaster recovery, and regulatory controls.
- Participate in and contribute to architecture governance boards and documentation.

(Desirable) Bring experience in Financial Services, Insurance, Pensions, or Investments, and knowledge of UK financial regulations.
- (Desirable) Familiarity with digital transformation, emerging technologies (AI, automation), and architecture modelling tools.
- Exhibit strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
- Demonstrate strategic, pragmatic, collaborative, and relationship-driven approach to architecture leadership.