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Principal Architect Health Insurance
Apply locations Central London time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id R1185123
Principal Architect Health Insurance
London / Manchester / Staines
Permanent
We make health happen
At Bupa, we are at the forefront of an exhilarating digital transformation journey, driven by our ambition to become the world's most customer-centric healthcare provider. Our mission is simple yet profound: to help people live longer, happier, healthier lives, and to make a better world.
As the Principal Architect for Health Insurance, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our technology landscape, ensuring that our systems and processes are aligned with our strategic goals. This role is crucial in driving innovation and enhancing our services to provide exceptional experiences for our customers.
Key Responsibilities
* Develop and execute the Technology Strategy for Bupa Global and UK Insurance businesses.
* Maintain current, target state, and roadmaps for critical domains and assets, aligning across Business Units (BUs) and with the Market Unit (MU) strategy and architecture.
* Align architecture roadmaps with business investment plans and initiatives.
* Direct and coordinate work across the Health Insurance Architecture Team.
* Serve as the single point of contact and escalation for architecture development across business units and with senior business and technology leadership.
* Ensure quality and accountability for architecture deliverables.
* Drive technical alignment across the Health Insurance design community, including Enterprise, Solution Architecture, and Engineering.
* Analyse industry trends to leverage technology and methodology advances.
* Communicate architecture direction and its alignment with business strategy and enterprise direction.
* Track progress and quality of architecture initiatives.
What We’re Looking For
* Significant experience as an architecture practitioner in a regulated financial services industry, ideally insurance.
* Experience in senior architectural leadership roles in a large global organization servicing multiple internal business lines.
* Expertise in modernizing large, complex legacy core product systems and platforms.
* Strong problem-solving, strategic, and creative thinking skills.
* Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
* Experience with modern architectures, complex distributed systems, and microservices architecture.
* Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies.
* Proven track record of influencing, motivating, and developing technology and product teams.
* Strong product design and development experience in an agile environment.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family-friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
* 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell.
* Bupa medical insurance for you and your family as a benefit in kind.
* An enhanced pension plan and life insurance.
* Free health assessment for you and your spouse.
* Target bonus of 25% based on individual and company performance.
* Company car allowance.
* Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available.
* Various other benefits and online discounts.
Why Bupa
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email:careers@bupa.com
About Us
Be at the heart of helping people live longer healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We employ more than 80,000 people globally who are making this a reality. If you've got the belief, the drive and the talent to help us in our ambition then we’d like to hear from you. Wherever you work, one thing stands out about Bupa people. Our customers are our passion – they’re at the heart of our positively different culture of care. At Bupa you’ll be challenged, you’ll be encouraged to innovate, and collaborate with colleagues who are committed to delivering exceptional experiences. We trust, respect and consider everyone, knowing your difference will make the difference.
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