Solution Architect - Protection
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Job Description
Job Title: Solution Architect
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Edge (South Manchester)/ Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 15th July 2025
At Royal London Group our Solutions Architects play a pivotal role in evolving our technology landscape. Your contribution directly impacts the value to our customers and members and business growth across Domains / Business Value Streams of Protection Equity Release Long-term Savings/Pensions Long Standing Customers Annuities.
Our Solutions Architects regularly work with Senior Solutions Architects business partners to guide the development of technology products and drive a portfolio of solutions for our core propositions. You will have the opportunity to bring your experience in modern architectural practices to innovate refresh our estate and experiment across a complex range of organisational capabilities. Our projects incrementally develop enduring products and provide a range of exciting challenges including cloud computing AI consolidation migration integrations simplification and Digital Experiences. Solutions typically involve changes to or creation of business processes operating model application data flows infrastructure and integration of third-party services.
You have a solid grasp of the concepts of business goals objectives and business outcomes business capabilities value-streams and business processes and their importance in solution architecture.
We are committed to your growth and offer continuous learning opportunities mentorship and a clear path for professional development. You will join a supportive and inclusive team that values collaboration trust empowerment and achieving together.
We are seeking passionate and experienced solution architects with a strong technical background. If you are enthusiastic about leveraging your expertise to drive technological innovation and make a significant impact we want to hear from you.
About the role
Work with the Principal Architect for Protection to understand the strategic roadmap to create the solution architecture designs to enable the strategy to be implemented.
Collaborate with business analysts to understand the business requirements.
Manage architecture design through the Governance process.
Presentation of solutions to design forums and wider stakeholder meetings.
Collaborate with other architecture disciplines to ensure designs consider all aspects of architecture.
Support the engineering teams with the detailed software designs through to implementation and then ongoing maintenance.
Keep the enterprise architecture tooling up to date as new technologies and designs are implemented and created.
About you
Experience of working in projects within financial services ideally but not mandatory within the Life Assurance space.
Experience of Microsoft technologies particularly in Azure and .Net would be a distinct advantage.
An inquisitive mindset looking at new developments in the wider industry and other areas with a view to using them within Royal London.
Strong communication skills with an adaptable approach suitable for stakeholders across alllevels both technical and business.
The skills to build consensus betweendifferent areas within the organisation and or highly independent and diversestakeholders.
About Royal London
Were the UKs largest mutual life pensions and investment company offering protection long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Weve always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here -Our Benefits
Inclusion diversity and belonging
Employment Type
Full Time
