Senior Solutions Architect
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Job Summary
Job Title: Snr Solutions Architect
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Edge / Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 28th Dec 2025
At Royal London Group were evolving the technology that underpins our most critical servicesdelivering innovative secure and scalable solutions that support millions of customers across pensions protection savings and investments.
Were seeking Senior Solutions Architects to join our teams across multiple domains including Protection Digital Platforms Long Term Savings Legacy Savings & Closed and Data Integration Platforms & Shared Services.
Reporting to Lead or Principal Domain Architects and aligned to our core business value streams youll play a strategic and hands-on role shaping the architectural backbone that enables innovation and long-term growth.
Responsibilities
- Interpret business and technical requirements into clear architectural designs that support long-term product evolution and strategic goals.
- Evaluate current systems for gaps and opportunities guide end-of-life decisions and recommend improvements to reduce technical debt and enhance efficiency.
- Lead solution design across platforms ensuring alignment with enterprise standards security and performance.
- Drive simplification integration and modernisation of platforms supporting large-scale migrations and shaping enterprise-wide architecture strategies.
- Mentor and support other architects and engineers fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment.
- Influence senior stakeholders and contribute to the strategic direction of technology across the business.
What Youll Bring
- Significant experience in solution architecture within complex regulated environments (financial services insurance pensions assurance savings or annuities).
- Deep understanding of modern architecture patterns (MACH event-driven DDD Strangler Fig).
- Advanced hands-on experience with C4 ArchiMate and tools like Ardoq LeanIX or Orbus.
- Strong technical background Java Python Azure CI/CD APIs and data platforms (SQL NoSQL Snowflake Databricks Power BI).
- Experience with integration architecture (APIs event-driven design CQRS) platform engineering and shared services enablement.
- Familiarity with Microsoft technologies especially Azure and with mobile/web frameworks serverless and edge computing.
- Experience with pensions or policy platforms (e.g. Bravura Sonata TCS BaNCS FNZ) and cloud migration frameworks is desirable.
- Ability to translate business goals into executable scalable and traceable designs.
- Passion for mentoring continuous learning and inclusive collaboration.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build consensus across diverse teams.
- A curious mindset and a passion for applying emerging tech to real-world challenges.
About Royal London
Were the UKs largest mutual life pensions and investment company offering protection long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise is that we will all work somewhere inclusive responsible enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values: Empowered Trustworthy Collaborate Achieve.
Were proud to reward employees with great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.
Inclusion Diversity and Belonging: We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Apache Hive
- S3
- Redshift
- Spark
- AWS
- Solr
- NoSQL
- Data Warehouse
- Internet Of Things
- Kafka
- DynamoDB
- ZooKeeper
About Company
From Pensions to Retirement, Savings, Investments and Life Insurance, Royal London has been helping people plan for life’s financial milestones since 1861.
