Senior Bureau Messaging Integration Architect - Insurance

Senior Bureau Messaging Integration Architect Permanent

Location:

London (City) Work:
Hybrid, 3 days per week in the office Salary: £90,000 - £105,000  20% Bonus  Benefits
- Dependant on experience Sector:
Insurance Integration Architecture or Solution Architecture
- London Market Insurance
- Lloyds/Speciality Insurance - API - ACORD
- Integration
- Azure Integration Services The Opportunity A leading insurance organisation is seeking an experienced Senior Bureau Messaging Integration Architect to shape and drive integration architecture across underwriting, claims, delegated authority, finance, and operational data flows. This is a high-profile position that will play a critical role in modernising and governing integrations across London Market and Lloyd's ecosystems. Working closely with business and technology stakeholders, you will define target-state architecture, establish integration standards, and deliver scalable, secure, and resilient solutions that support strategic change programmes.

Integration Architecture or Solution Architecture
- London Market Insurance
- Lloyds/Speciality Insurance - API - ACORD
- Integration
- Azure Integration Services

Key Responsibilities Define and maintain integration architecture for bureau messaging and external market connectivity. Design end-to-end integration solutions across underwriting, claims, finance, delegated authority, and reporting processes. Establish and govern integration standards, patterns, and architectural principles. Provide architectural leadership and design assurance across multiple projects and programmes. Support integrations with London Market platforms, Lloyd's services, brokers, coverholders, bureaus, and third-party providers.

Ensure effective message routing, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and exception management. Embed security, resilience, governance, and operational support requirements into all solution designs. Partner with business, delivery, security, data, and vendor teams to deliver practical and scalable architecture solutions. Drive simplification initiatives, improve reuse, and reduce technical debt across the integration landscape. Integration Architecture or Solution Architecture
- London Market Insurance
- Lloyds/Speciality Insurance - API - ACORD
- Integration
- Azure Integration Services Skills & Experience You'll bring a strong blend of insurance domain expertise and technical architecture experience, including: 8 years' experience in Integration Architecture or Solution Architecture. Extensive experience within the London Market, Lloyd's, or Specialty Insurance sector. Proven track record designing integrations between insurance platforms and external market participants. Strong understanding of API-led, event-driven, message-based, batch, and file-based integration patterns.

Experience with data mapping, transformation, validation, and reconciliation processes. Knowledge of integration security, resilience, and governance best practices. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Experience with ACORD standards, London Market messaging, or bordereaux processes. Exposure to delegated authority and Lloyd's ecosystem platforms. Hands-on knowledge of Azure Integration Services, Mule Soft, Boomi, IBM MQ, Kafka, REST/SOAP, XML, JSON, and managed file transfer technologies. Understanding of cloud and hybrid integration architecture. TOGAF or similar architecture framework knowledge desirable. Integration Architecture or Solution Architecture
- London Market Insurance
- Lloyds/Speciality Insurance - API - ACORD
- Integration
- Azure Integration Services Senior Bureau Messaging Integration Architect Permanent

Location:

London (City) Work:
Hybrid, 3 days per week in the office Salary: £90,000 - £105,000  20% Bonus  Benefits
- Dependant on experience Sector:
Insurance Opportunity to influence strategic architecture decisions within a highly respected insurance business Collaborative and supportive working environment