AWS Solutions Architect

ZipRecruiter; London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job description

Position: AWS Solutions Architect

Location: London Hybrid (2 days a week onsite in clients office)

Type: Contract (Inside IR35)

Job Description:

Essential

- London Market Insurance domain

1. Producing and owning the end-to-end architectures for multiple Regulatory Risk and Group Functions portfolio initiatives spanning disparate software and infrastructure components including cloud architectures.
2. Driving key architecture decisions for projects and aligning stakeholders to a proposed approach.
3. Working with global development teams to ensure detailed component level design corresponds to high level architecture.
4. Working with the Senior and Enterprise Architects to ensure that data and functional architectures adhere to the architecture principles and support the target state vision for the enterprise globally.
5. Clearly communicating the architecture key design decisions and approaches on assigned projects to key stakeholders, project bodies, and relevant governance assurance forums including the Architecture Review Board.
6. Collaborate and work with Product Owners, Product Analysts, and Developers to help translate desired business outcomes into technology solutions thus achieving the LII technology outcomes.
7. Leading, facilitating, and participating in detailed design reviews and ensuring that all components of the solution are aligned to the target state vision.
8. Working with other Solution Architects and Technical Leads to ensure alignment of high level architectures across Global Risk Solutions.
9. Modelling current and future state architectures in an architecture modelling tool (e.g., LeanIX).
10. Line Management for a team of Technical Leads.
11. Ability to effectively collaborate with all levels of the organization with diverse backgrounds.
12. Proven experience with agile practices and expectations.
13. Good knowledge of Data Architecture concepts, management, security, governance, database integration, quality.
14. Contribute to Portfolio level 30/60/90 day planning sessions.
15. Cloud certified AWS or Azure.
16. Highly developed negotiation, consensus building, influencing skills, facilitation, and the adaptability to respond to change quickly.
17. Highly developed oral and written communication skills, strong presentation skills. Ability to effectively collaborate with all levels of the organization.
18. Adherence to all relevant regulatory requirements forms part of your role and the demonstration of behaviours as set out in the Conduct Risk Policy as they relate to your role is core to LSM's commitment to our Liberty Values placing customers at the centre of our business and behaving with integrity. LSM expects you to understand your responsibilities relating to all regulatory and internal requirements and to proactively demonstrate compliance with these requirements and behaviours at all times. These include: Solvency II, fair treatment of customers, Financial Crime, Data Protection, Conflicts of Interest, and Whistleblowing.

Desirable

1. Experience working within Actuarial, Capital Modelling and Reserving, Exposure Risk Management, and Regulatory Risk spaces highly desirable.
2. Experience working with emerging technologies such as AI within the insurance domain desirable.
3. Experience working in the Insurance domain with experience of working on one or multiple Insurance specific solutions is highly desirable. We will, however, also consider applications who have worked with finance clients.

Skills

Mandatory Skills: Integration Architecture, Integration Pattern