Lead Domain Architect

Lloyd’s is the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance marketplace. We share the collective intelligence and risk sharing expertise of the market’s brightest minds, working together for a braver world.

Our role is to inspire courage, so tomorrow’s progress isn’t limited by today’s risks.

Our shared values: we are brave; we are stronger together; we do the right thing; guide what we do and how we act. If you share our values and our passion to build a future that’s more sustainable, resilient and inclusive, you’ll find a home at Lloyd’s -build a braver future with us.

Are you a hands-on Architect, with a leading-from-the front mindset and a passion for technology and consulting?

Technology will drive business value for Lloyd’s of London and its customers by delivering effective and efficient IT services that embrace innovation for competitive advantage and the Architecture team are a key part of this ethos.

We are recruiting for a Lead Domain Architect within the Insurance Markets Domain.

Principal Accountabilities
- To enable and own technical solutions within their domain.
- To become experts in the business requirements and map them to technical solutions.
- To ensure all development is aligned to the wider Global Technology architectural principals, designs, patterns and blueprints.
- Create and own architectural roadmaps and strategy within their domain.
- To educated squads/development teams on the Cloud First strategy and how this is applied to all solutions and development.

..and much more

**Skills**:

- Strong leadership skills to effectively steer technological efforts and developments
- Strong decision-making skills to make choices that directly impact the Lloyd’s estate
- An in-depth understanding of Lloyd’s challenges and objectives to effectively align technical strategies
- Courage and knowledge to provide challenge to senior management decisions
- The ability to think strategically, anticipate future developments and provide technical vision
- A determination to stay up to date regarding the latest technological advances
- A solid understanding of business processes and functions
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Coding skills (preferably Python)

Knowledge
- Experience and/or knowledge of the London Insurance Market would be beneficial
- A hands-on Architect, with a leading-from-the front mindset and a passion for technology and consulting.
- More than just technically savvy. Strategic, analytical, forward thinking and constantly alert to new trends that will drive the business forward.
- An inspiring leader with a clear vision for the role technology should play in the business.
- Create a high-performing culture with a human-first approach.
- Customer-centric in approach by putting customers into the centre and ensure that teams find the best possible approach to continue delivering first class products
- An approachable and inclusive leader. Value diversity, welcome mistakes, reward originality and appreciate the unique differences of others.
- Expert knowledge Cloud Migration, Cloud Transformation and best in class use of cloud technologies
- Cloud security
- Containerized services
- SaaS, Paas, IaaS
- Deep knowledge of Data Governance frameworks in complex regulated environments.
- Knowledge of change management principles and practices.
- Commercial insurance industry, terminology and strategic drivers is a plus

Experience
- Has come from an IT Engineering background
- Working collaboratively across multi-party teams and stakeholders to deliver high quality outputs
- Experienced in forming constructive partnerships and mutually beneficial solutions with third parties
- Experience of implementing sustained process and culture change in a business environment
- A creative thinker, able to deal with complex problems and develop innovative solutions
- Adherence to agreed governance processes and procedures
- Experience of cloud transformation programmes

Diversity and inclusion are a focus for us - Lloyd’s aim is to build a diverse, inclusive environment that reflects the global markets we work in. One where everyone is treated with dignity and respect to achieve their full potential. In practice, this meanswe are positive and inclusive about making workplace adjustments,?we offer regular health and wellbeing programmes, diversity and inclusion training, employee networks, mentoring and volunteering opportunities as well as investment into your professional development.You can read more about diversity and inclusion on our website.

We understand that our work/life balance is important to us all and that a hybrid of working from the office and home can offer a great level of flexibility.? Flexible working forms part of a total reward approach which offers a host of other benefits overand above the standard offering (generous pension, healthcare, wellbeing etc).? These include financial support for training, education & development, a benefit allowance (to spend on our flexible benefits such as gym membership, dental insurance, extra holidayor to partake in our cycle to work scheme), employee recognition scheme and various employee discount schemes.

By choosing Lloyd's, you'll be part of a team that brings together the best minds in the industry, and together with our underwriters and brokers, we create innovative, responsive solutions allowing us to share risk and solve complex problems.