Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect – Global Insurer A leading insurer is looking for an Enterprise Architect to join its central Architecture function. This is a senior, business-facing role. You’ll own the end-to-end architecture across the business and work closely with senior stakeholders to turn business strategy into a clear, deliverable technology roadmap. The work covers business transformation, data and responding to a changing insurance market. Key Responsibilities - Own and evolve the end-to-end architecture and roadmaps for the international division, in line with group Enterprise Architecture and business strategy. - Hold the business to account on outcomes, capabilities and technology platforms, and turn them into a clear, sequenced view of how change will deliver the strategy. - Set clear architectural guardrails, layers and domain boundaries, and make sure Solution Architecture and delivery teams stay within them. - Provide governance and assurance across the change portfolio to keep designs aligned with strategy and to reduce technical debt. - Produce impact assessments that cover data, integration, security and infrastructure, so investment decisions are well informed. Key Skills Required - Experience as a true enterprise-wide architect, ideally with a business architecture background and strong change delivery experience. - Knowledge of the London Market or specialty insurance, deep enough to act as the subject matter expert (desirable) - Strong business acumen, with a track record of challenging stakeholder requirements and proposing alternatives that create long-term value. - Experience with solution governance and assurance, and with defining and delivering strategic change towards a target state. - Able to break down large, complex problems and explain the way forward clearly to non-technical senior stakeholders. - Experience working with self-organising agile teams (Scrum, Kanban, DSDM) in a modern, cloud-first environment. This is a hybrid role that requires 3 days per week in the Central London offices.