Insurance Enterprise Architect

The Commercial discipline is responsible for driving business growth, managing partnerships, and providing industry subject matter expertise and advisory to both clients and internal teams. This strategic and consultative team creates meaningful relationships with clients through their combined knowledge of IT services and industry trends and pain points. Members include business development staff of all levels, client partners, alliances and partnerships managers, industry advisors, and operational leads.

As a Senior Insurance Enterprise Architect at Endava, you will have at least 10 years of experience in the insurance industry, with a strong understanding of technology, stakeholder management, presales, sales presentations, and post-sales. You must know how to partner with account, delivery, and sales teams to deliver solutions to our clients.

As an Enterprise Architect with deep experience in the insurance industry, you will be instrumental in business-level conversations during pre-sales efforts and taking an active leadership role in engagements focused on delivering solutions to our clients.

To deliver on these opportunities, the successful candidate will have a proven track record in architecture within the insurance industry and be keen to explore how these skills can be applied in assessing organizations’ capabilities and readiness for change. This will require bringing previous experience to bear in reviewing architectures and making opinionated recommendations on how business outcomes can be realized.

Responsibilities:

• Work alongside Endava and Client Enterprise & Solution Architects to analyze, define, and refine architecture outputs.
• Understand and translate customer business goals and objectives and reflect these appropriately by defining future-state technology and architecture roadmaps and proposals.
• Actively shape the scope, requirements, and technical approach of projects.
• Proactively review customer solutions and propose improvements and strategic direction in view of client goals.
• Working with commercial and sales management to shape and pitch strategic engagements to client stakeholders.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders on client engagements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of insurance industry expertise.
• You are a strong team player with a collaborative attitude who can play a central role within our new industry-aligned activities.
• Strong experience in aligning technology strategy with business strategy, developing and executing strategies and architectures in large corporate environments.
• Practical experience in architecture within the insurance industry, including but not limited to capability mapping, application architectures, and establishing architectural principles.
• Experience in large enterprises working alongside architecture and agile teams, centers of excellence, infrastructure, and cross-functional operations teams.
• Ability to work with our sales and account teams to shape the Endava response to stakeholder needs, interests, areas of opportunity.
• Strong experience in aligning technology strategy with business strategy.
• Ability to become a trusted advisor to senior technical stakeholders (up to C-level).
• Good understanding of various agile delivery models.
• Excellent soft skills, particularly in client and stakeholder expectation management.
• Highly articulate and literate, with excellent written and spoken English.
• Commercial acumen in presenting strong business cases for change.
• Ability to maintain initiative and focus during negotiations.
• High levels of ownership and ability to work across functions to ensure good client outcomes.
• Experience in one or more of the following of areas: London markets, personal lines, commercial lines, brokerage, and reinsurance.
• Experience with architecture domains (e.g., security applications, data, infrastructure, data security), architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, MODAF, Zachman), and modern design practices (e.g., Domain-Driven Design, event-driven architecture, microservices, API-led architecture, Cloud architecture). Recent and hands-on experience is a distinct advantage.
• Experience with a variety of modern software development practices and operating environments such as DevOps and cloud computing.
• Preferred Skills:
• Experience with programming languages (e.g. Java, .Net, Python) is highly desirable.
• Experience with insurance platforms (e.g. Guidewire, Duck Creek, ISC) is highly desirable.