Consultant – Solution​/Technology Architect, Insurance Architecture

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.

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

Insurance Architecture is the dedicated digital architecture and technology team within Accenture’s UK Insurance & Financial Services Industry and Enterprise practice. We are a small, high-impact team of senior architects and technologists who shape and assure complex digital change for some of the UK’s leading insurers, life offices, wealth managers and platform providers, and advising CIOs, CTOs and Chief Architects on major investment plans and technology and platform decisions.

Our work spans General Insurance, Life, Pensions & Investments, London Markets, Capital Markets and the wider Financial Services market, supporting clients in areas such as journey to cloud, digital transformation in underwriting and claims, applications of AI and GenAI, and large‑scale platform re‑platforming.

Our operating model is built around six functional pillars – Solution Architecture;
Enterprise Architecture & System Design; ML, AI & GenAI;
Data Architecture;
Cyber Security; and Cloud & Infrastructure. Each team member develops deep expertise in one or more pillars, leading upskilling for colleagues so that we can flex quickly onto client engagements with both depth and resilience.

We were recently recognised by the Financial Times as one of the UK’s leading Management Consultants in Insurance.

• 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…