Job Description:
Lead Solution Architect: Enterprise Modernisation
Contract duration: 12 months
The Role Purpose
Are you a high-credibility architect who thrives on turning complex legacy landscapes into elegant, event-driven ecosystems? We are seeking a Lead Solution Architect to drive the end-to-end architectural vision for a massive enterprise insurance modernisation programme.
The Technology Environment
You will be operating within a modern, high-scale stack:
- Java-based application ecosystem.
- AWS Cloud (Cloud-native principles, Kubernetes/Containerisation).
- API-first & Event-driven integration models.
- BPM & Decision Management platforms for complex orchestration.
Key Responsibilities
- End-to-End Leadership: Define blueprints for policy, claims, billing, and digital engagement, ensuring clear separation between experience, orchestration, and domain layers.
- Pattern Excellence: Establish and enforce API-led and event-driven patterns while implementing Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to define bounded contexts.
- Legacy Modernisation: Utilize Strangler Patterns and Anti-Corruption Layers to decouple core systems and ensure a smooth transitional architecture.
- BPM & Rules Strategy: Externalise business logic via decision engines (DMN) and ensure workflow tools aren't cluttered with hard-coded logic.
- Cloud Engineering: Partner with DevOps to embed observability, security, and CI/CD maturity into the architectural runway.
- Vendor Governance: Lead and challenge vendor designs to reduce lock-in and maintain long-term sustainability.
What Were Looking For
- Experience: 12+ years in Enterprise Solution Architecture, specifically within large-scale Insurance or Financial Services transformations.
- Technical Depth: Deep expertise in microservices, asynchronous integration, and cloud-native resilience patterns.
- Modernisation Toolkit: Proven track record of modular decomposition in "brownfield" environments using incremental migration strategies.
- Leadership: The ability to operate across multiple workstreams and communicate trade-offs to executive-level stakeholders.
- Pragmatism: A balance of architectural discipline with a delivery-focused, pragmatic mindset.