Enterprise Architect FTC, Hybrid / Reading

You will have experience of and be able to demonstrate:

• Prior experience of working in the UK Financial Services sector, ideally within the Life and Protection space
• Experience of creating, developing and managing architectural roadmaps
• Experience of establishing and driving architecture governance processes
• Experience of designing and transitioning to an evolutionary architecture model supporting multiple parallel workstreams
• Experience of working with DevOps, Developers, business analysts, solution architects and business stakeholders
• Experience of technical leadership on complex multi-vendor solutions
• Ability to work with limited supervision but collaboratively and enthusiastically with a strong team ethic
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management (to CxO and board level)
• Ability to ensure compliance with industry standards, regulations and best practices
• Demonstrable consideration of risk management and the mitigation of technical risks associated with architecture decisions
• Demonstrable consideration of future needs in terms of efficiency, simplicity, agility, adaptability, maintainability
• Understanding of legal and regulatory requirements
• Fully cognisant of information and Cyber security, business continuity and disaster recovery needs.

Knowledge/Understanding of the following areas would be advantageous

• Microsoft Azure cloud technologies
• Data warehousing and analytics solutions
• Data modelling and development of API definitions
• Microsoft DevOps and Github
• Relational and non-relational database technologies
• Common architectural and integration design patterns
• Implementation of standards-based authentication and identity management solutions
• Business domain specific standards such as ORIGO messaging
• A background in either C#/.Net or Java centric development
• Familiarity with Atlassian tool set (JIRA/Confluence)
• Familiarity with one or more architecture methodologies (e.g. TOGAF)
• Familiarity with Agile Delivery Principles, Methods and Tools
• Familiarity with Domain Driven Design and Clean Architecture

• Private Medical Insurance with rewards for yourself with discounted rates for your family members
• Competitive Company Pension Scheme
• Access to several employee discounted schemes to suit your lifestyle including but not limited to:
• Private dental insurance
• Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Comprehensive Europe and Worldwide Travel Insurance
• Medical Cash Plan
• Gym memberships
• Access to 24/7 GP service for you and your family
• 25 days pro rata holiday with the option to purchase more

Guardian experienced rapid growth supported by a fully digital, Microsoft Azure cloud-based platform. The onboarding journey for advisers and policy holders is entirely digital, whilst servicing customers post policy inception is hybrid digital/manual.

Given the rapid growth, there has now been the build-up of tech debt and Guardian has launched an Architecture Review to understand where architectural constraints may hamper future growth plans and market opportunities.

Phase 1 of the review was an internal deep dive, and we’re now looking for an external ‘pair of eyes’ to validate our findings and assumptions and to help us plan and sequence the work we need to do to ensure our architecture is simplified, brought up to date and is fit to support Guardian in the next phase of its journey.