Senior Solution Architect / Cloud Transformation / Salesforce

Solution Architect / Insurance / Cloud Transformation / Salesforce FS / Remote Hybrid

My client are about to embark on a cutting edge enterprise-wide Insurance strategy to transform business.

We are seeking a Solutions Architect from ideally an insurance / financial services / Banking domain.

This role will see the Solutions Architect acts in a hands on, execution focused way.

The successful solution architect’s remit will be to translate the Insurance strategy, define architecture, and deliver the solution. In this role you will have an understanding of Insurance systems and processes and function as an Insurance architecture subject matter expert for our various projects.

High Level Remit

• Understanding of existing Insurance architecture
• Understand user requirements and translate these into an architecture and road map
• Collaborate with key stakeholders
• Guide the full lifecycle of a Solution
• Understand the Business Capabilities
• Assist the customer (and business solutions analysts)
• Design architecture and solutions to meet business requirements
• Document solution interactions and relationships, along with basic infrastructure and application onboarding requirements
• Assist in the creation of cost estimates
• Ensure the future-state solutions have been fully vetted, are performant and scalable
• Ensure security by design to meet Information Security policies, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Regulatory requirements, and industry best practice
• Assess vendor tools based on required capabilities, future capabilities, and architecture drivers, and document justification for tool selection
• Be hands on to demonstrate tools, patterns, security, performance, scalability, etc. in a lab environment when necessary
• Work with quality assurance team to ensure the testing approach is appropriate for the given architecture and solution
• Lead design reviews (pre-development) and implementation reviews (post-development)
• Create a feedback loops
• Participate in the definition of adoption and experience metrics for the solution
• Present architecture decisions, explain the end-to-end solution, educate others
• Extract best-practice knowledge, reference architectures, and patterns for sharing with the broader community
• Document cost and performance metrics for different design patterns
• Participate in the definition and maintenance of Architecture principles and artifacts
• Engage with tool vendors on their roadmaps and appropriate usage of their tools
• Engage with industry experts
• You will report to the Principal Architect.

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Extensive hands experience with Salesforce Platforms / Azure / Sales force on Azure / Large scale transformations in Financial services
• Initiates own work receiving broad direction as needed
• Guide and mentor
• Lead or manage large, long term or complex projects with dotted line responsibility
• Ability to assess and advise on the department’s strategy
• Independently resolve a variety of novel strategic challenges that have significant impact on organization-wide cost and efficiency with far-reaching impact
• Resolve novel problems requiring creative application of advanced skill, training and education
• Significant experience within relevant architecture roles
• Possess broad and deep insurance and architecture expertise and knowledge
• Understand & be able to communicate business problems & technical solutions in appropriate terminology