Solution Architect

Hiring for a Solution Architect at Brit India . 

About Brit

Brit has a leadership position at Lloyd’s, the most well-known insurance market in the world. Leadership and Innovation are at the heart of Brit’s passion for “writing the future.” And that means at brit, we write the risks so our customers can face the future fearlessly.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Define and communicate solutions to business and technical stakeholders using architecture artifacts

in line with BRIT’s architectural practice

• Collaborate with engineers and product owners internally and externally to guide the realisation of the

solutions, and to manage collaboratively where architecturally intent   

    cannot be realised as planned

• Ensure alignment to, and evolution of, Enterprise Architecture principles and roadmaps.

• Ensure that architectural decisions are clearly identified and managed for a solution, and any residual

architectural debt is managed.

• Promote the architecture process, its outcome and ongoing results.

• Evaluate selection of vendor products against the architectural guardrails, functional and non-

functional requirements, and participate in third party technical assurance where appropriate.

• Document architecture design in the best way to support the delivery of solutions and products in

BRIT

• Promote re-use of common components and assets.

Key Skills Required:

Technical

You may have some or all of the following, not everything is essential:

• A Strong understanding of Domain Driven Design

• Experience of forming solutions in various patterns that may include N-tier, SOA, Event Driven and

Microservice / Small service based applications.

• Experienced of working across the Full Software Development Life Cycles as defined by different

software delivery paradigms: waterfall, incremental and Agile.

• Knowledge and practical application of Design Patterns and Practises. 

• Just enough documentation of solution designs that may take the form of blueprints, relationship

diagrams, integration patterns etc.

• Experience of building within the Azure cloud (Application Service, Functions, Azure SQL, Service Bus,

KeyVault) or other cloud providers

• Use of Continuous integration and automated deployments within Azure DevOps or similar

• Knowledge of programming language(s) and frameworks that may include one or more of - .Net Core,

C#, python, SQL, Automated Unit Testing, Web API, MVC, Entity Framework, jQuery, 

    CSS, Bootstrap, and JavaScript programming.

Non- Technical

You may have some or all of the following, not everything is essential:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience.

• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, negotiation and planning.

• Excellent analytical and technical skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills especially able to convey architectural decisions

through the use of variety of communication techniques to both technical and non-technical

stakeholders.

• Knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes.

• Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations.

• Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to business problems.