Microsoft Cloud Solutions Architect

2 weeks ago

Reigate Surrey, United Kingdom Willis Towers Watson Full time

The Insurance Technology Cloud Solution Architect is a senior role, and the successful candidate will work In a small group of Architects focuses on the best practices to design and operate the platform of our SaaS solutions and offerings.
The Cloud Solution Architect will be responsible for the design of our common platform components and standards and will work closely with DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineers to automate our environment deployments and CI/CD pipelines. The successful candidate will also work alongside our Principal Test Engineer and one or more Principal Software Engineers to contribute to delivering best practice across all of our Product Families.
The “core foundational services” are the services required for us to scale cost-effectively to deliver SaaS to thousands of insurance organizations.Examples include but aren’t limited to Identity and Access Management, Container Orchestration, Deployment, Infrastructure as Code, API Management, Service Monitoring and Alerting, and Security.
It is equally important to us that this role has both a strong foundation in development and cloud solutioning. You will have experience as a System or Solutions Architect or equivalent and have worked as a software engineer working across a wide range of technologies to deliver complex commercial applications. You will have a successful track record over several years guiding and mentoring multi-disciplinary teams, squads and product families of software professionals including engineers and development managers in terms of systems design and architectural best practice.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to use their knowledge and experience to help architect and build the next generation of software, solve difficult problems, work with a highly skilled teams and across multiple, highly successful, global product families to make a real difference in the way we develop great software.
This will include the core (technical) foundation components, environment automation and CI/CD pipelines, and strategic (business) components.
Work with Delivery Teams and Security Architects as owners of the SSDLC, Secure Software Development Lifecycle, to successfully implement the SSDLC as part of the shared SaaS platform.
Be responsible for scalability and performance. Responsible for adherence to security & data privacy standards and best practice.
Work with various Technology Architects to ensure services aspects of the above are adequately covered, and ensures design for easy deployment, operation and supportability. Work alongside our Principal Test Engineer and one or more Principal Software Engineers to contribute to delivering best practice across all of our Product Families.
Facilitate a culture of cost-effective continuous improvement and lead initiatives to optimise efficiency and accelerate project execution.
Encourage and engage in collaboration and the sharing of knowledge and software components with other Willis Towers Watson development centres, take part in numerous cross collaborative innovative projects both locally and globally.
Experience and certification in architecting enterprise solutions in Azure, with AWS or GCP highly regarded.
Designing and delivering high-performance and scalable data-driven enterprise, web and SaaS applications from a development, deployment and maintenance perspective
Overseeing technical implementations undertaken by multiple scrum teams, comfortable being hands-on and close to the code as required.
Additional experience in the software development industry.
Prior work with Independent Software Vendors, understanding their unique challenges and requirements.
Experience working across a diverse portfolio of software products.
Experience working with / building an internal developer platform.
Practical experience with the full software development lifecycle in a commercial/production environment: requirements capture and analysis, estimation, architecture and design, implementation, unit and system-level testing, installation and deployment, maintenance.
Understanding of tools and principles related to continuous integration and deployment, DevOps, version control, build and test infrastructure, pipelines, infrastructure as code, defect and backlog management etc.
Excellent practical appreciation and understanding of software engineering principles and design characteristics enabling the implementation of software, which is highly performant, scalable, easily maintainable, extensible and easy to test and debug.
Experience with a wide range of Agile and Lean program management.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to adjust interaction and messaging to different levels across different disciplines (engineering, product, actuarial).
Strong academic qualifications. ICT_TECH TD_2024_82R)
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