Solution Architect

  • Full-time
  • Working Hours: 35 hours per week
  • Salary: Competitive
  • Department: Technology

Company Description

Here at esure, we’re no strangers to change. As one of the industry leaders in the insurance business, striving to become a world class digital insurer, we’re getting ready for more. It’s creating great new opportunities for innovative and talented industry professionals to join us at a pivotal point in our development.

It’s an opportunity you simply don’t want to miss. You can expect our investment in you to include a highly competitive package, career and development opportunities and flexible benefits built around you and your lifestyle.

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for a Solution Architect! You will develop the architecture and technical direction of our IT Applications, ensuring that the use of technology is aligned with our transformation and business strategy regarding applications, data and infrastructure.

What you will do:

  • Develop a close understanding of esure’s technical direction and strategy
  • Responsible for building and maintaining technology solutions and architecture principles
  • Define and develop the overall technology architecture philosophy and ‘big picture’, including hardware platforms, operating systems, cloud, NoSQL DB, Kubernetes, Kafka, RDBMS, middleware, etc.
  • Collaborate with business functions and the wider IT team to identify the potential application of emerging technology, and to promote re-use of existing data and services
  • Responsible for ensuring that new projects and initiatives meet agreed technical principles and are in line with our technical strategy
  • Build and maintain a repository of technical documentation to spread awareness of our applications architecture

Qualifications

What we are looking for:

  • A Solution Architect who has extensive experience in designing and building IT applications and who has worked within the full system development lifecycle (preferably using agile methodologies)
  • Knowledge of a wide range of technologies and the ability to relate those to the technology currently in use or planned for the future within esure (AWS cloud technologies, Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, Oracle RDBMS, Linux, etc.)
  • A true understanding of how the various components of an IT infrastructure fit together
  • Experience of an architecture framework and methodology such as TOGAF, Zachman, etc. would be beneficial

Additional Information

What we will offer you in return:

  • A competitive salary that recognises your skills, experience and potential
  • 25 days annual leave plus 8 flex days (equivalent to bank holidays to be taken as and when suits you)
  • Flexible benefits platform - choose the benefits that suit you and your lifestyle
  • Bonus scheme
  • Flexible / hybrid working model
  • Staff discount on our products

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need. This might be part-time, job share or compressed hours for example. Anyone who applies for a role can ask about flexibility at interview. In return, we will explore what is possible for the role.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you are excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you’re not 100% sure we would love to hear from you.

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