London Insurance Solution Architect

Job Title: Insurance Solution Architect

Location: London

About the Job you are considering:

We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect who is accountable for crafting end-to-end solutions for key initiatives, projects and Platform teams for Capgemini UK and Clients. Operating as part of the UK Insurance, the Solution Architects are passionate about driving, improving and promoting the process and delivery of Architecture across the organisation.

Hybrid working: 

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

• Support the creation and build of solutions for projects which meet the specified standards for technology and ensure they meet our aims for availability, security, resilience and performance.
• You’ll support the crafting of design options with associated costs, benefits and risks to enable investment decisions.
• Solution Architects interact and collaborate with product owners, architects, development teams and other project colleagues to agree trade-offs between long-term and short-term goals.
• You will support the integrity of the end-to-end technical solution, including transition states used to achieve the target state.
• Shape and estimate IT initiatives and feature team sprints, ensuring that component parts deliver against business outcomes.
• Support on key designs to ensure the long-term strategic goals of Capgemini clients are met as well as short term project needs.
• Ensure design artefacts are produced to support service, security, architecture and engineering.
• Develop your technical skills to support Capgemini’s need to understand and exploit emerging technology trends.
• Recommend design solutions or ideas in response to challenges faced by your project or feature team in line with policy, process and other guidelines.
• Accountable for recommending change based on excellent know how and analysis.

Your Skills

• Knowledge of Insurance industry and the technologies deployed within the industry
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end project lifecycle methodologies (mainly agile).
• They should have knowledge of one of the business area as a minimum either P&C, Life, Commercial insurance and/or London Market knowledge.
• Strong technical experience. This may be broad experience with the ability to apply it across a variety of customer and business scenarios; or strong domain specialisms to maximise the benefit of technology in key areas e.g. Infrastructure, Business Intelligence, Pensions.
• Financial acumen to support development of business cases and to inform key design decisions.
• Ability to balance long-term direction and necessary short-term goals.
• Good interpersonal skills which will allow you, over time, to provide technical guidance to peers and project colleagues.
• Strong personal impact and influence.
• Excellent stakeholder and relationship management.
• Leadership skills.

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and 
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation.  We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. 
  To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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