About the Client
We are one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect to strengthen architectural and engineering excellence across our Product Area, supporting Legal, Compliance, Audit, Corporate Secretariat, Finance, and Procurement domains.
This is a senior individual contributor role operating across multiple engineering teams. You will partner closely with Product Owners and Engineering Leads to design scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions in a predominantly SaaS/COTS landscape with selected custom-built applications.
You will play a key role in driving architectural coherence, elevating engineering standards, and ensuring long-term system sustainability.
Responsibilities
Define and apply architectural guardrails across multiple engineering teams.
Work closely with Engineering Leads to co-design scalable, secure, and resilient solutions across SaaS/COTS and custom-built systems.
Facilitate and contribute to complex system and integration design discussions alongside Engineering Leads, providing architectural guidance and structured trade-off analysis.
Standardize integration patterns and promote reusable architectural approaches across the Product Area.
Ensure non-functional requirements (security, performance, resilience, observability, scalability) are embedded by design.
Conduct architecture and design reviews to maintain high technical standards and architectural consistency.
Identify and drive structural technical debt remediation initiatives across teams.
Support and strengthen adoption of DevSecOps, automation, and quality engineering practices aligned with global engineering standards.
Ensure adherence to governance frameworks, including architecture, security, data protection, and regulatory requirements.
Drive implementation of mandatory technology standards and enterprise guardrails consistently across the Product Area.
Partner with Engineering Leads to uphold high technical quality benchmarks and continuously elevate engineering maturity.
Act as a trusted technical advisor to Engineering Leads and senior engineers. Foster architectural alignment and knowledge sharing within the Product Area and contribute actively to the broader engineering community through forums, design discussions, and best practice initiatives.
Develop reference implementations and proof-of-concepts for high-impact architectural initiatives where needed. Contribute hands-on to critical architectural components requiring deep expertise.
Continuously identify simplification, rationalization, and reuse opportunities across the system landscape.
Identify and evaluate opportunities for AI adoption. Assess AI initiatives from an architectural perspective, ensuring responsible integration with respect to data privacy, model governance, explainability, security, and operational scalability.
Requirements
10+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise-grade software systems.
Strong engineering foundations with hands-on programming proficiency (e.g., Java, C#, Python, TypeScript or similar) to build POCs, validate architectural approaches, and support squads in complex engineering scenarios.
Proven experience leading architecture design across multiple teams or complex domains.
Strong background in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and integration design.
Demonstrated experience designing scalability, resilience, high availability, and operational readiness.
Strong experience with Azure or similar cloud platforms.
Experience working with SaaS/COTS platforms and API-driven ecosystems in enterprise environments.
Solid understanding of DevSecOps practices, automation, and non-functional design principles.
Experience operating in regulated or compliance-driven environments with governance requirements.
Ability to influence technical direction across teams without formal authority.
Strong analytical thinking, trade-off reasoning, and architectural judgment.
Nice to Have Skills
Exposure to AI/ML-driven solutions and understanding of how to responsibly integrate AI capabilities into enterprise systems is an advantage