MS Solution Architect

The Role:

MS Stack, SQL, Azure, DevOps, Rest, UML

Solution Architect is required by thriving market leading insurance organisation. This role will join their architecture division and make a significant impact to the organisation by supporting their growth strategy and competitive positioning. This role will entail the design and implementation of IT solutions. Existing patterns, frameworks and tools are utilised to create state of the art, maintainable and cost-efficient IT solutions to meet flexible business demands.

You will ensure high-level technical design and development which supports system performance. They are a Microsoft house and we are looking for a Solution Architect with a broad MS background including MS Azure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design of application architectures
• Lead and develop the architectures for systems, balancing and ensuring consistency between functional, service quality and systems management requirements following the IT target architecture and reusing existing patterns
• Provide input in the selection of systems architecture components, and coordinate design activities, promoting the discipline to ensure consistency
• Support development and management of target design, policies and standards including IT security and quality guidelines
• Communicate architecture objectives to business stakeholders and consults during the development of product requirement
• Communicate architecture objectives to senior business stakeholders and consult during the development of product requirements
• Responsible for implementation of technology solutions and mapping of business requirements to systems/technical requirements in alignment with enterprise and technical architecture

Key Requirements:

• Significant previous experience in a Solution Architect role working with the MS stack.
• Software Engineering background and some experience of Azure.
• Strong project delivery background. Ideally 5 years of experience in system design, systems integration, or software development as a developer/architect
• Strong knowledge of the processes of the entire software development and product life cycle: DevOps principles, patterns, UML, agile development practices
• Experience in web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture and cloud architecture
• Common frameworks such as eg, REST, struts, spring, hibernate, etc. and familiar Database technologies (MS SQL, JDBC, PL/SQL, stored procedures)
• Thought leadership – able to monitor market trends and to drive creative thinking on future technology capabilities which support digitalization of business processes and increase business value.
• Insurance or financial services experience useful