Digital Solution Architect

Digital Solution Architect – Polo Works

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We are seeking a talented Digital Solution Architect to join our team. This pivotal role focuses on designing and delivering customised technical solutions that bring our digitised services to life for new and existing customers. You will work closely with Product Owners and IT teams to define feasible product options, standardise deployment approaches, and ensure smooth service delivery.

Department: Digital

Location: London or Cheltenham

• Customer Solution Development: Capture and define customer requirements for Polo’s Digital Services, starting with Intelligent Risk Capture.
• Assess feasible solution options aligned with product definitions.
• Develop new customer solutions to enable digitised services, ensuring commercial viability.
• Standardisation of Product Options and Deployment: Collaborate with Product Owners to develop product and service options for common customer challenges.
• Define technical requirements and standardised deployment approaches.
• Provide technical leadership to development teams, guiding architecture best practices.
• Technical Design Documentation and Frameworks: Create and maintain architecture documentation, diagrams, and roadmaps for all digitised services.
• Document Polo’s IP, including data schemas and prompts.
• Ensure all product documentation is accurate and updated following change processes.
• Service Deployment Support: Support the Digital Delivery lead in delivering digitised services to market.
• Work with delivery teams, partners, technology vendors, and clients to ensure continuity of product design and technical specification.
• Mobilise internal resources and partners to deliver solutions on time and to specification.

• Strong experience in solution architecture, preferably in digital services, within the Insurance industry.
• Proven ability to translate customer requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Solid understanding of architecture best practices, deployment methodologies, and technical documentation.
• Excellent communication skills and experience working with cross-functional teams.

• Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and a minimum 24 days of annual leave (with option to buy/sell up to 5 days using our Annual Leave Flex Benefit).
• Flexible, hybrid working; private health insurance, life assurance, income protection, enhanced pension contributions, occupational maternity and paternity pay.
• Company volunteering days, Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing scheme, employee assistance programme, generous employee referral scheme, regular sports and social events, free Cheltenham bus travel.
• Benefits band 4.

• Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Insurance