Principal Architect - APAC, Europe Lloyd's

Insurance Principal Architect - APAC & Europe, UK & Lloyd’s

London, UK

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As we develop an enterprise-wide Insurance strategy to transform our business, we are seeking an Insurance Principal Architect. The Insurance Principal Architect is a hands‑on, execution focused role helping translate the Insurance strategy, define architecture, and deliver the solution. In this role you will have an understanding of our Insurance systems and processes, and function as an Insurance architecture subject matter expert for our various projects.

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Understanding of AXA XL’s existing architecture
• Understand user requirements (desired output & outcome) and existing environments (current state), and translate these into an architecture and road map
• Collaborate with customers, analysts, other architects, modelers, developers, testers, partners and vendors
• Guide the full lifecycle of a Solution, including:
  
  Understand the Business Capabilities that are required and translate this to Technical Capabilities and Solution Architecture Assist the customer (and business solutions analysts) to define and declare non‑functional requirements for building out solution capabilities
  
  Design AXA XL’s architecture and solutions to meet business requirements in a manner that balances architectural standards, and implementation and operational risks, with restricted parameters such as budget and time Document solution interactions and relationships, along with basic infrastructure and application onboarding requirements
  
  Assist in the creation of cost estimates including implementation as well as total cost of ownership
  
  Ensure the future‑state solutions have been fully vetted, are performant and scalable, enable agility, can be supported, are cost effective and highly available, and meet the robust needs of the business
  
  Ensure security by design to meet Information Security policies, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Regulatory requirements, and industry best practice
  
  Assess vendor tools based on required capabilities, future capabilities, and architecture drivers, and document justification for tool selection
  
  Be hands on to demonstrate tools, patterns, security, performance, scalability, etc. in a lab environment when necessary
  
  Work with quality assurance team to ensure the testing approach is appropriate for the given architecture and solution
  
  Lead design reviews (pre-development) and implementation reviews (post-development) to ensure principles and standards are followed, and that technical debt is managed
  
  Create a feedback loop for those who are implementing and interacting with the solutions
  
  Participate in the definition of adoption and experience metrics for the solution to measure the success of the solution
• Present architecture decisions, explain the end‑to‑end solution, educate others how they can contribute, and provide guidance on tool usage
• Extract best‑practice knowledge, reference architectures, and patterns for sharing with the broader community of Architects at AXA XL and/or AXA Group
• Document cost and performance metrics for different design patterns, and provide project teams the ability to decide the most appropriate pattern for their requirements, timeline, and budget
• Participate in the definition and maintenance of Architecture principles and artifacts
• Engage with tool vendors on their roadmaps and appropriate usage of their tools
• Engage with industry experts to validate the architecture and designs, and understand industry trends

You will report to the Head of Insurance Architecture.

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent
• Line management responsibility for APAC & Europe, UK & Lloyd’s solution architecture team
• Rate Quote Bind, Underwriting, Claims and Risk Consulting domain architecture authority & accountability, is self‑supervising from a technical perspective
• Act as a strategic advisor to management
• Experience…