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Senior Solutions Architect - Long Term Savings

Royal London
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    Alderley Edge, England, United Kingdom
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    Alderley Edge, England, United Kingdom
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We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.     Context At Royal London Group our Senior Solutions Architects play a pivotal role in leading and shaping our technology landscape. Your primary objective is to enable our organisation to safely exploit the potential of technology capabilities to serve our society better. Your contribution directly impacts the value to our customers and members, and business growth across Domains / Business Value Streams of Protection/Assurance, Equity Release, Long-term Savings/Pensions, Long Standing Customers, Annuities. Our Senior Solutions Architects regularly work with senior stakeholders to guide the development of technology products and drive a portfolio of solutions for our core propositions. You will have the opportunity to bring your experience in modern architectural practices to innovate, refresh our estate and experiment across a complex range of organisational capabilities. Our projects incrementally develop enduring products and provide a range of exciting challenges including cloud computing, AI, consolidation, migration, integrations and simplification. Solutions typically involve changes to, or creation of, business processes, operating model, application, data flows, infrastructure, and integration of third-party services.  You have a solid grasp of the concepts of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value-streams and business processes and their importance in solution architecture. We are committed to your growth and offer continuous learning opportunities, mentorship, and a clear path for professional development. You will join a supportive and inclusive team that values collaboration, trust, empowerment, and achieving together. We are seeking passionate and experienced Senior Solutions Architects with a strong technical background. If you are enthusiastic about leveraging your expertise to drive technological innovation and make a significant impact, we want to hear from you. About the role  Reports into the Principal Architect (Lead Domain Architect) and aligned to the Business Value Stream to deliver innovative solutions that meet strategic business outcomes. Drives large-scale Pensions Platforms simplification, integration, refactoring and rehosting, and challenge the status quo with modern architecture alternatives. Fast-paced project environment, working within an enduring squad in the regulated industry, preferably within Pensions/Savings industry. Developing own and team capabilities is integral to all Architect roles at Royal London Group. Enjoys and willing to coach and mentor other architects. Provide Enterprise guidance, exploring application of emerging technology trends to enable the Principal Architects to influence the direction of our business and operating models. Utilises architecture modelling language such as ArchiMate, C4; EA tooling like Ardoq, BizzDesign, LeanIX, Orbus Infinity; pragmatic use of Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman to craft executable solution patterns. Visio designers need to be keen to adapt and learn!   Responsibilities across three key dimensions: Interpret Business Needs Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work. Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product life cycle. Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state), working closely with Business Architects and business stakeholders, to determine corresponding enterprise solution designs are traceable to transition state and change requirements. Assess Technology Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements. Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services or systems, including applications, technologies, processes and information. Analyses the business-IT environment to detect opportunities for ever-greening the legacy and technical debt and recommends options to make strategic improvements. Facilitates the evaluation, selection and TCO of software products, platforms and services through internal and external channels including vendor assessment for RFP. Consults with technical architecture peers to ensure all layers of architecture are evaluated and solutions constructed robustly including Security, Infrastructure, Networks. Apply Technology Leads evaluation, design and analysis across a group of technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards. Manage and design executable architecture for a single project or product or initiative with awareness of the need to stitch into other designs to develop enterprise capability. Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes. Works closely with the Product and Project Management offices to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised on the designs.   Five Core Competencies: Interpersonal Excellence: Articulating concepts through compelling and relatable narratives to effectively educate, engage, influence and collaborate with stakeholders and peers to achieve architecture goals. Business and Technology Strategy: Identifying and seizing opportunities to align technology, processes and business plans with strategic goals, guiding effective and feasible choices, building flexibility and resilience across all vectors of our business. Critical Thinking: Constructively challenging as a coach and guide legacy assumptions and commonly held beliefs to adopt alternative modern methods to achieving enduring results. Solving problems, navigating complex situations and adapting to new information to drive business success. Digital Enablement: Applying design-thinking methods to ensure end-user needs and perspectives are addressed, identifying iterative solution development approaches, collaborating with platforms and other technical domains to manage interdependencies in achieving target states, and promoting best practices in a modern delivery environment. Architecture Foundations: Design the transition state architecture for the domain / Business Value Stream / Platform with ownership of non-functional requirements. Design and build solutions and roadmaps to transition the business towards the future state, underpinned by robust architectural frameworks for the organisation.   Skills  You have been developing your core competencies and bring technical breadth to provide credible design leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions. You are a hands-on architect, from an engineering background, who can consider multiple viewpoints, provide weighted solution options, experience of industry design patterns for modern architectures, clarity on breaking down packets of work and transition states to design solutions incrementally to meet business needs and align with target/transition states, and architectural governance and standards. Hands-on experience in modelling languages such as C4 and ArchiMate. Robust understanding of data and application migration technologies like Azure Data Factory. Knowledge of core policy platforms like Bravura Sonata, TCS BaNCS, FNZ and bespoke legacy systems. Skills to modernise architectural estates and drive serviceability, observability dashboarding and metrics in end products. Good understanding of information principles, guardrails and processes spanning data within operational contexts such as Pensions Platforms. Knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies such as Agile, Incremental, DevOps, capable of engaging with engineers. Understanding of Domain Driven Design principles, EA patterns to decompose monoliths to microservices, Strangler Fig pattern, event sourcing. Proven analytical, influencing / consensus building, technical and communication skills. Engineering background in one or more of the following: Modern CI/CD pipelines with container orchestration and deployment technologies Integration technologies like RESTful APIs, Kafka, API Management Cloud migration frameworks (Azure functions, Logic Apps, App Services) Java frameworks and technologies Database technologies and platforms like SQL, NoSQL, Data Lake, Snowflake, Databricks, MongoDB, Oracle Observability platforms like Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana   About Royal London  We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.     Our  to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.   We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here -     Inclusion, diversity and belonging   We’re an  employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background

Compétences idéales

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Cloud Computing
  • Dynatrace
  • Kafka
  • MongoDB
  • NoSQL
  • Oracle
  • SQL
  • Splunk
  • Visio
  • Grafana
  • Alderley Edge, England, United Kingdom

Expérience professionnelle

  • Solutions Architect
  • Software Architect
  • Cloud Architect

Compétences linguistiques

  • English
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