Consultant – Solution​/Technology Architect, Insurance Architecture

Role: Insurance Architect

Location: Bath, Bristol, London, Hybrid

Mobility: Up to 100%

Career Level: Consultant and Associate Manager

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We are recruiting for talented technologists to join the Insurance Architecture team within Accenture’s UK Insurance & Financial Services Industry and Enterprise practice, helping us shape and deliver digital change for our clients.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture:
We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” –
Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

• Invent and provide solutions to real-world problems across our Insurance and Financial Services clients, leveraging the latest technologies including GenAI and agentic AI.
• Act as the communication bridge between business and technology teams, helping ensure that solutions are aligned to true business needs.
• Build deep client relationships and bring together the wider Accenture business – including Industry and Enterprise, Technology, Song, Operations – to create differentiated offerings and enable the best outcomes for our clients.
• Deliver tangible, transformational change for clients and develop points of view that shape the insurance and financial services industries.

• Contribute across all six of our functional pillars on client engagements – with a particular focus on Applications, Integration and Data as well as AI, Cloud and Cyber Security – and grow toward becoming a future pillar specialist.
• Help define and deliver enterprise and solution architecture artefacts (current-state, target-state, roadmaps and transition states, integration patterns, capability maps) for clients across Insurance and Financial Services.
• Become familiar with and help to enhance our industry specific reference architecture frameworks, which form a core part of our proposition to our clients.
• Shape and deliver discrete, high-quality outputs on engagements – from data integration designs and automation workflows, through to cloud strategy artefacts and proof-of-concept builds.
• Build credibility with client stakeholders through clear, well-structured analysis and presentation, and contribute to thought leadership through blogs, brown-bags and skunk works projects.
• Bring your own perspective to growing and diversifying the Insurance Architecture team, mentoring more junior colleagues and helping us continuously raise the bar.

• 5+ years of experience in technology roles – ideally with exposure to Financial Services, Insurance or another regulated industry – covering some combination of data, application, cloud, integration and security.
• Working knowledge of data architecture concepts – including data modelling, integration, governance, visualisation and migration – and tools such as Databricks, Snowflake or equivalent.
• An appreciation of how technology can solve complex business problems, and comfortable operating at the intersection of business and technology.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate ideas visually and adjust the level of detail for different audiences.
• Familiarity with at least one major industry platform (e.g. FNZ, SS&C, Pershing, Guidewire, Sapiens, Duck Creek, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics) is highly desirable.
• A genuine desire to improve outcomes for clients and consumers, and willingness to travel within the UK and occasionally internationally.

• Passion and enthusiasm for innovating in the insurance and financial services industries, especially through automation, AI/GenAI and modern data…