Solutions Architect
Cardiff
- Full time
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About Admiral
We're Wales’ only FTSE 100 company. We have forward-thinking approaches and provide 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 have created a working environment where people share ideas, aren’t afraid to speak up and change things, and above all, feel valued.
Admiral has grown from being a small start-up into a multi-national organisation. The company is constantly investigating new products, services and markets and is now present in eight countries with a diverse product portfolio.
Our success goes hand-in-hand with having a strong culture where we put our people and customers first. Our philosophy is simple yet effective: people who like what they do, do it better, and this in turn, means that our customers receive the level of service and products that they deserve. Our culture is honest, open and wholeheartedly focused on four key areas:
Communication, Equality, Reward & Recognition, and Fun.
Role Purpose
The Solutions Architects within the Solutions Architecture function take primary responsibility for the design and end to end solutions for project work, aligned to the Enterprise Principles, Roadmaps and Vision. The Solutions Architects will champion best practices, feed their depth of knowledge and expertise into the enterprise roadmaps, and offer coaching and consultancy to the delivery teams. Solutions Architects will also take part in the governance forums to ensure the ongoing conformity to the enterprise roadmaps.
Specifically to Applications / Software, the Solutions Architect will provide the Software Delivery teams with design support and consultancy for each delivery, will support application development quality and sound data management, work with the Delivery Seniors/Leads to ensure roadmap alignment, act as the bridge between the delivery teams and architecture, and ensure optimal use of enterprise assets.
Department Vision
Admiral IT has a long history of supporting the business to innovate and bring new products to the market. The department completely refreshed the core policy administration systems in 2016 to allow the department and the business to continue to innovate further in the ever more digital marketplace. The department continues to build on top of and around the core systems to bring more innovation and technical excellence, including Cloud adoption, Big Data, machine learning and data analytics technologies and furthering our digital offerings with a focus on digital customer engagement.
Who are we looking for?
We take on many different roles within IT, but we consistently look for people who are: -
- Passionate about what they do
- A continual learner (forever inquisitive for self-improvement)
- Self-motivated, creative and highly disciplined
- Solutions focused
- Positive and a great team member
- Able to work with all levels of seniority across IT and the wider business
Requirements / Technologies
- You will use a TOGAF based approach to tackle complex and exciting challenges
- You will work with many technologies across all aspects of IT, but our core tech includes
- Azure and Google Cloud Platform
- Guidewire InsuranceSuite
- Java, Spring, Angular
- Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub, SonarQube
- Elastic, Redis, Oracle
- You will be expected to stay current in the technology domain through research / PoCs
- You will champion and oversee the design and implementation of best practices
- You will identify and promote innovative ways of using technology to maximise system benefit
Responsibilities
- To act as a lead in the development of fit for purpose solutions, ensuring end to end responsibility from how the users will be affected by the change, ensuring the correct technical choices (within the boundaries of the agreed enterprise assets), to ensuring the scale, performance, security and quality are designed in from the start.
- To work in tandem with the Enterprise Architects to understand the business goals and vision, and to contribute to the Enterprise Roadmaps.
- To assist in the decision-making process for delivery teams to ensure that system changes are in line with target architecture, and that tactical decisions are being made appropriately and effectively
- Producing documentation of a high-quality and to a detailed level. Also ensuring all Decision Points, Building Blocks, Design Principles, Design Rationale and all interdependencies are understood, documented and communicated across IT, where appropriate
- Proactively managing and addressing project risks and issues. Escalating high priority issues to management with suggested solutions
- Acting as a point of reference within the team to provide in-depth knowledge and technical expertise
- Provide consultancy services to internal customers by offering technical guidance, and ensuring architecture principles, design standards and operational requirements are met.
- Act as a Coach and provide consultancy to the senior developers and technical leads
- Ensuring delivery of projects on time and to budget, by adopting delivery-focused Admiral working practices and methodologies.
- Contribute to the architecture repository, using approved modelling tools and language
Why work for our team?
Admiral has many benefits, which you can find out from our website but further to that you will also benefit from
- Working with a top-class team
- Working on exciting challenges to maintain Admiral’s competitive advantage
- Be given the flexibility to work in a way that allows you to give your best
- Work in an open and accessible department
- Know that you are working for a department who regularly take part in charitable events
Who is the Head of Area?
We recognise that the person you are reporting to is just as important as the culture and ethos of the company, and therefore we have included a short bio on the head of the area.
Simon Field joined in 2018 to lead Enterprise Architecture at Admiral, having previously been Chief Architect at Emirates Group. Prior to this, Simon was Chief Technology Officer at the Office for National Statistics, and he also spent five years advising IT and business leaders across the Gulf as a Senior Executive Partner at Gartner. He is a Chartered Insurer, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and holds a Doctor of Business Administration in Service Design.
Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance
We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.
At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we're voted no. 1 in the 2019 Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.
You can also view some of our other key benefits here; https://admiraljobs.co.uk/employee-benefits/.
If you think this role is for you and would like to be considered for this opportunity, please click “apply now” to complete an online application form.
Please note, we are not accepting CV’s from agencies for this role. Agencies on our PSL should only send CVs if asked to do so by the Recruitment team.
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