Job Title: Solution Architect - Data, Intergration Platforms & Shared Services
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Edge / Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 30th June 2025
Drive Innovation as a Solutions Architect at Royal London Group
At Royal London Group, our Solutions Architects are at the heart of transforming our tech landscape—delivering real impact across Protection, Equity Release, Pensions, Annuities, and more.
You’ll collaborate with senior leaders to shape modern, scalable solutions that power our core propositions. From cloud and AI to digital experiences and platform simplification, you’ll tackle exciting challenges that span architecture, integration, and innovation.
We’re looking for experienced architects with a strong technical foundation and a passion for business outcomes. If you're ready to refresh legacy systems, experiment boldly, and drive meaningful change—we want to hear from you.
Join a supportive, inclusive team that values trust, growth, and shared success.
About the role
* Work with the Principal Architect for Data & Integration Platforms & Shared Services to understand the strategic roadmap for these areas, build the target architecture, and develop designs to enable the strategy to be implemented.
* Collaborate with business analysts and stakeholders to understand business requirements.
* Manage architecture design through the Governance process.
* Present solutions to design forums and wider stakeholder groups.
* Collaborate with other disciplines in architecture and engineering to ensure designs and roadmaps consider all aspects.
* Support the engineering teams with the detailed software designs through to implementation and then ongoing maintenance.
* Keep the enterprise architecture tooling up to date as new technologies and designs are implemented and created.
About you
* Experience of working in projects within financial services ideally, but not mandatory.
* Experience of Microsoft technologies particularly in Azure and .Net would be a distinct advantage.
* Strengths in one of the following areas:
o Software and integration architecture and platform engineering ideally using or supporting a range of modern integration patterns APIs, Event-driven architecture, and CQRS.
o Data platforms and architectures, including technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Fabric and PowerBI, serving various data integration and consumption needs.
* An inquisitive mindset looking at new developments in the wider industry and other areas with a view to using them within Royal London.
* Strong communication skills with an adaptable approach suitable for stakeholders across all levels, both technical and business.
* The skills to build consensus between different areas within the organisation and, or highly independent and diverse stakeholders.
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 People Promise 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 - Our Benefits