We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Job Title: Senior / Solution Architect
Business Value Stream / Platform: Long-Term Savings
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Edge / Haymarket
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 1st August 2025
At Royal London Group, we’re transforming how we support our members’ long-term savings journeys. We’re looking for Snr & Solutions Architects to lead the simplification, integration, and modernisation of our pensions platforms—designing scalable, secure, and future-ready solutions that deliver lasting value.
Reporting to the Principal Architect for Long Term Savings (Domain Lead Architect) you’ll collaborate with senior stakeholders, engineers, and product teams to shape enterprise-wide architecture strategies and drive innovation across cloud, data, and digital technologies.
Responsibilities
Interpret Business Needs: Translate business and technical requirements into clear architectural designs that support long-term product evolution and strategic goals.
Assess Technology: Evaluate current systems for gaps and opportunities, guide end-of-life decisions, and recommend improvements to reduce technical debt and enhance efficiency.
Apply Technology: Lead solution design across platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, security, and performance. Collaborate across teams to deliver robust, integrated solutions that drive business outcomes.
What you’ll bring
Proven experience in solution architecture within the LTS domain / regulated industries (pensions, savings, life assurance)
Strong understanding of modern architecture patterns (MACH, event-driven, DDD, Strangler Fig)
Hands-on experience with C4, ArchiMate, and tools like Ardoq, LeanIX, or Orbus
Technical expertise in Java, .NET, Azure, CI/CD, APIs, and data platforms (SQL, NoSQL, Snowflake, Databricks)
Familiarity with pensions platforms (e.g. Bravura Sonata, TCS BaNCS, FNZ) and cloud migration frameworks
Ability to lead complex migrations and design traceable, executable solutions
Passion for inclusive collaboration, mentoring, and continuous learning
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