Location: 1 day a week at Swindon Office
Rate: Up to £850 per day inside IR35
Contract Length: 6 months intially - highly likely to be extended
We are supporting a major transformation programme within a leading global insurance organisation and are looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect with deep London Market expertise.
This is a strategic, business-facing architecture role - ideal for someone who combines strong insurance domain knowledge with pragmatic architectural thinking.
You will:
1. Partner with senior business and technology leaders, including C-suite stakeholders
2. Facilitate workshops and shape architectural direction
3. Translate market, operational and business realities into pragmatic technology solutions
4. Provide market-informed perspective on PAS, vendor positioning, and ecosystem capabilities
5. Support solution shaping across underwriting, placement, policy administration and claims
What We're Looking For
Profile & Style
6. Professional, quietly confident, consultative approach
7. Strong verbal and written communication skills
8. Comfortable leading meetings, workshops, and executive discussions
9. Business-facing and collegiate in style
London Market & Insurance Expertise
You must bring strong working knowledge of:
10. London Market operating models and ecosystem
11. Central services and market bodies (, Bureau, Lloyd's processes, signing down, LPAN)
12. Slips, binders, facilities, multinational programmes
13. PI, Retail/SME, Large Commercial, and Specialty lines
14. End-to-end lifecycle: placement through to claims
15. Digital concepts such as auto-quote, referrals, fast follow, self-serve
16. Market platforms such as PPL, Whitespace, Acturis, iMarket
17. Vendor realities vs positioning (PAS landscape, LM vendor capabilities, etc.)
About Korn Ferry