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Senior Solutions Architect, Alderley Edge
Client: Royal London Group
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Job Category: Other
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Job Reference: 6ab51b3b9da6
Job Views: 14
Posted: 29.04.2025
Expiry Date: 13.06.2025
Job Description:
Job Title: Senior Solutions Architect
Contract Type: Permanent
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
At Royal London Group, we’re modernising our technology landscape to provide customer-centric products and services. Our business employs over 6000 people across the UK and Ireland, focusing on Financial Services including Pensions, Insurance, Long-Term Savings, and Annuities. We seek hands-on, Cloud/Azure-native Senior Solution Architects to help us migrate from legacy platforms to a future-ready architecture.
Why Join Us?
* Drive results transforming monolithic platforms into cloud-native, event-driven, API-first architectures.
* Embed architecture patterns and reusable frameworks to improve engineering efficiency.
* Work with Azure’s latest technologies—AKS, API Management, Event Grid, Cosmos DB, Terraform, and support our Cloud strategy.
* Make a significant impact in a UK Mutual, shaping technology that benefits millions of members and sharing profits with customers.
Who We’re Looking For?
* A technical leader recognized for technical direction and thought leadership.
* Contribute to architecture artifacts like High-Level Design templates.
* Mentor and develop solution architects.
* Deep expertise in Azure Cloud, Integration, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
* Ability to create deployable patterns using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates.
* Experience modernising legacy applications, cloud migration, and hybrid architectures.
* Passion for engineering excellence, governance, and delivering long-term value.
Skills
* Assist Principal Architect on TCO of Platform
* Design cost-effective solutions, including projected costs over time.
* Implement cost reduction strategies without impacting services.
* Review costs in third-party or outsourced IT, applying cloud-native frameworks.
* Expertise in cloud-native design patterns across Azure, AWS, GCP.
* Strong knowledge of microservices, DDD, Event-Driven Architecture, API-led integration.
* Translate architectural designs into engineering constructs like IaC, CI/CD, APIs, workflows.
* Work with engineering teams to ensure ease of deployment using Terraform, ARM, Bicep.
* Experience with modernization strategies: rehost, refactor, rearchitect, rebuild, replace.
* Familiarity with Architecture Frameworks: TOGAF, ZACHMAN, C4, and tools like Ardoq, BizzDesign.
* Understanding Policy as Code, compliance, governance, and regulatory guidelines (FCA, PRA).
* Align technical decisions with business goals, ensuring customer-centric solutions.
* Contribute to reusable frameworks for future development.
* Background in Software Engineering with skills in mobile/web architectures, languages, integration, data, CRM, containerization, serverless, and data strategies.
Knowledge of Pensions, Insurance, Long-Term Savings, Annuities, ISA is a plus.
If you want to lead Cloud adoption in Financial Services and work on impactful transformation challenges, this role is for you.
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