Solutions Architect

Summary

Join INSTANDA, a leading Insurtech company, as a Solutions Architect and play a key role in driving our growth. You will be responsible for designing and developing third-party technology integrations, expanding the INSTANDA ecosystem to meet client needs. This client-facing role involves collaboration with various teams, including Architecture, QA, Business Analysts, and Platform Support. The position is UK-based, primarily remote, with some travel to the London office. You will participate in design workshops, build reusable integrations, support implementation, communicate technical solutions, and estimate project timelines. You will also own and maintain existing and new integrations, create client ecosystems, and produce architecture documentation. Continuous research on emerging technologies is also expected.

Requirements

• Proven experience of how to integrate 3rd party software into complex IT estates, manage interdependencies between products, and lead end-to-end delivery in multi-supplier engagements
• Integrating systems using a variety of integration patterns, such as APIs, Webhooks, file transfer, orchestration, etc
• Understanding API definitions and technologies
• Experience with various authentication systems including OAuth, OIDC, SAML, etc
• Architecture modelling and diagrams, including the C4 Model, sequence diagrams, entity diagrams, etc
• Experience designing and developing middleware integrations with Cloud technologies
• Strong stakeholder management skills both upwards and downwards
• Experience of Azure Integration Services

Responsibilities

• Participate in design and discovery workshops with our clients and stakeholders to capture integration requirements for client projects
• Design and build reusable integrations that extend the capabilities of the INSTANDA platform
• Support internal and partner configuration teams during client engagements, for the implementation of internal and third-party integrations or API interactions
• Communicate technical solutions effectively to non-technical stakeholders
• Estimate effort and timescales to deliver
• Work closely across functions with Architecture, QA, Engineering, Delivery, etc
• Own, support, and maintain existing integrations, as well as new ones
• Create pre-defined ecosystems for our clients
• Define and produce industry-standard architecture documentation and modelling, with INSTANDA being a core component
• Create and lead system integration processes to meet our client needs
• Operate as a primary technical contact for our clients throughout projects and programmes, with a keen focus on integrations and complex workflows
• Evaluate project constraints and devise best practice recommendations to reduce risks, including any impacts that technical changes may have on a client’s business
• Become a platform SME to provide our clients and delivery teams architectural direction
• Work closely with all teams to provide insight on product enhancements, continuously improving integration capabilities for our clients
• Perform continuous research on emerging technologies to stay updated with the best alternatives and to improve the existing architectures for clients

Preferred Qualifications

• Insurance industry knowledge would be a strong advantage
• Demonstrable client-facing experience
• Capability to learn new business processes quickly, and understand how technology can be used to improve/implement them
• Ability to set direction, technical scope and to build/lead teams of technical individuals and manage their technical deliverables
• Balance multiple projects and priorities, and make key decisions to ensure results
• Excellent communication, influencing, and facilitation skills, in particular for problem-solving/troubleshooting activities
• Assertiveness in dealing with people at all levels within and outside of the delivery organisation, including partner and client organisations
• Issue management, prioritisation, and ability to provide pragmatic direction which is consistent with our longer-term strategy
• Collaboration – able to work closely with interdependent projects and deliveries
• Excellent leadership and stakeholder relationship skills
• Able to demonstrate resilience, flexibility, and adapt to changing schedules and priorities

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous 28 days holiday allowance, in addition to public holidays
• For every year of service you complete, we’ll give you an additional days holiday (max. 5 days)
• One Dynamic Day per month on top of your holiday allowance to spend time doing the things you want to do or simply catching up with life admin
• Freedom Pass work up to 4 weeks of the year from anywhere
• FlexiBank you decide when to use your public holiday allocation
• Hybrid Working approach varying with the nature of your role
• Life cover; income protection and participation in the company pension scheme
• All employees are included in the company discretionary bonus scheme
• ��100 per month to put towards wellness activities
• Annual learning & development allowance of £1,250
• Free access to LinkedIn learning and Microsoft ESI learning platform