Solution Architect

Solution Architect: Ageas in Eastleigh have an exciting opportunity to join our IT department as a Solution Architect. It's a time of growth and modernisation at Ageas, and the Solution Architect will be crucial in ensuring the effective and efficient design of IT based solutions within Ageas UK.An excellent communicator, with great Stakeholder Management skills, the successful Solution Architect should have experience in an IT Architecture role at a large organisation or could be a Technical Lead looking for a new challenge- experience with one or more of the following is desirable:

• Digital transformation particularly around cloud adoption / migration (preferably Azure) and Windows 10, Microsoft 365 and Office 365 adoption and rollout, including an understanding of organisational change and it's impacts during transformation
• Delivering cloud centric application architectures including an understanding of cloud benefits and risks. DevOps set up and tooling (including automated testing framework and tools)
• Azure data platform and relevant tooling (such as Azure Databricks, Azure Dev Ops, Snowflake and Power BI)

Main Responsibilities as Solution Architect:

• To Provide the required architecture services to support the delivery of the solution by the project/programme/product team. Services provided include Consultancy (Solution Options, Advice & Guidance), Solution Architecture (Strawman, Woodman and Ironman levels of details depending on what is required), Design Authority (supporting the delivery and removing architectural blockers)
• Contribute to the enterprise architecture work required to support the organisation
• To be an active member of each of the Architecture Design Authority Forums, helping to ensure all decisions made are fully auditable and contribute to peer reviews
• To contribute to the evolution of the Architecture Practice to ensure fitness for the future, share knowledge and skills, act as an ambassador for Ageas through attendance at external events, and personal development commitment.

To be successful in being considered for the Solution Architect role you will need the following knowledge, skills and experience:

• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, which are essential for interacting with key stakeholders at all levels across the business.
• Experience working in Financial Services, specifically Insurance, would be beneficial.
• Ability to keep up to date with technology trends and innovations to enable Ageas to leverage any opportunities.
• Possesses a distinctive blend of business acumen and IT knowledge.
• An up-to-date knowledge of architectural standards e.g. TOGAF.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the JOB.TITLE role:

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

• Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
• Supporting your Health - Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities - Yoga, Mindfulness.
• Supporting your Wealth - Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
• Supporting you at Work - Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
• Benefits for Them - Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover
• Get some Tech - Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
• Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave

About Ageas:
We're one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our people help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, a Stonewall diversity champion and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum role criteria). For more information please see Ageas Everyone.
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we're always looking for outstanding people to join us. To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.?

Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.