Head of Enterprise and Domain Architecture

Head of Enterprise and Domain Architecture

Location: Cardiff or Remote

Reports to: Chief Architect

Salary: Competitive, based on experience, plus excellent Admiral benefits (including company shares and more)

Introduction

Admiral is fundamentally a digital business that will increasingly leverage modern technology to allow us to operate as a "Fintech at Scale".  We are actively seeking a Head of Domain and Enterprise Architecture who will be key to defining a technology strategy that will:

• Enable the delivery of outstanding business capabilities and platforms
• Facilitate a customer centric, channel agnostic, engagement model
• Allow rapid deployment of differentiated products into new and existing markets
• Provide flexibility to rapidly respond to emerging market disruption
• Analyse customer data to react in real time and gain competitive advantage

Job Purpose & Main Duties

The successful candidate will:

• Manage the Enterprise and Domain Architecture teams
• Contribute to the technology thought leadership for Admiral
• Develop an IT strategy that aligns and evolves with our business strategy 
• Develop technology strategies to address potential industry disrupters
• Develop and maintain 3-year detailed technology and platform roadmaps for all areas of the business
• Drive consistency, rationalisation and reuse in our technology estate to improve our expense ratio 
• Maintain clear architectural governance processes and ensure they are fully adopted
• Influence and contribute to the scope of the change portfolio to ensure that it reflects and implements the IT strategy and roadmaps
• Work with strategic / architecturally significant vendors to help inform the direction of our IT strategy and influence their roadmaps for the benefit of Admiral’s future strategic direction
• Champion a service-based / event based architecture to enable reuse of capabilities to accelerate the change agenda
• Define our external API strategy to facilitate the potential for future "Admiral as a service" to support potential “Open Insurance” models

Experience and Qualifications Required

The Head of Enterprise and Domain Architecture will be an experienced architecture professional with extensive technical, strategic and management experience.  The individual should have the appropriate level of experience and gravitas to interact at all levels of Admiral up to and including C level.

Essential skills

• Previous experience of leadership in IT Architecture in a similar sized organisation
• Strong technical grounding with extensive architectural experience
• Thorough and broad understanding technology from infrastructure to application
• Ability to make pragmatic business focussed decisions
• Experience of implementing architectural governance processes
• Strong attention to detail, with excellent analytical skills
• Ability to communicate constructively and confidently and work well with others
• Proven ability to self-start and motivate others to achieve goals
• Strong communication skills, both written and spoken, with an ability to explain complex technical issues to a non-technical audience
• Proven team leadership and collaboration skills

About Admiral

We're Wales’ only FTSE 100 company with forward-thinking approaches and endless opportunities to test, learn and grow. There's a reason we've been named a best place to work: Our progressive culture, core values, and commitment to diversity and inclusion has created a working environment where people share ideas, aren’t afraid to speak up and change things, and above all, are felt valued.

Based on innovation and organic growth Admiral has grown from being a small start-up into one of the largest car insurance providers in the UK. The company is constantly investigating new products, services and markets and is now in seven countries with a diverse product portfolio.

Admiral’s success goes hand-in-hand with having a strong people focussed culture. We believe that happy people make happy customers and happy customers help increase profits. Our philosophy is a simple yet effective one: people who enjoy what they do, do it better. 

We truly care about our customers, they are at the heart of every decision we make. We’re very proud of the innovative products we offer and level of service we provide. Everything we do acknowledges the needs of our customers and by recruiting the right people, we can continue to provide great service and ensure an excellent experience for our customers.

Admiral people work hard to keep us at the top of our industry, and are rewarded for it—with competitive pay, great benefits, a share package based on company performance, work-life balance opportunities, nearby fitness and health centres, and other special perks.

If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, please complete an online application form.

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