Senior Solutions Architect - Long Standing Customers

Job Title: Senior Solution Architect

Business Value Stream / Platform: Long Standing Customers

Contract Type: Permanent  

Location: Alderley Edge / Haymarket

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based 

Closing date: 30th June 2025

Shape the Future of Tech at Royal London Group

At Royal London Group, our Senior Solutions Architects don’t just support the business—they shape it. You’ll lead the design of smart, scalable solutions that drive real impact across our core propositions, from Protection and Equity Release to Long-term Savings and Annuities.

You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders to modernise our estate, tackle complex challenges, and deliver innovation across cloud, AI, integration, and simplification. This is your chance to influence enterprise architecture in a fast-paced, regulated environment.

What You’ll Do

• Lead solution design for large-scale Policy Admin System migrations
• Translate business needs into executable architecture
• Identify and address tech gaps, legacy systems, and vendor options
• Collaborate across architecture layers—security, infra, data, and networks
• Coach and mentor fellow architects while growing your own expertise

What You’ll Bring

• Strong architecture modelling (C4, ArchiMate)
• Experience with Azure Data Factory and cloud migration frameworks
• Knowledge of platforms like Bravura Sonata, TCS BaNCS, FNZ, and legacy systems
• Expertise in observability, serviceability, and dashboarding
• Agile, DevOps, and incremental delivery know-how
• Domain-Driven Design, microservices, event sourcing, and Strangler Fig patterns
• Excellent communication, analysis, and influencing skills

Engineering Experience In:

• CI/CD pipelines, containers, orchestration
• REST APIs, Kafka, Azure Event Grid, Service Bus
• Azure Functions, Logic Apps, App Services
• Java or .NET, SQL, NoSQL, Data Lake, Snowflake, Databricks, MongoDB, Oracle
• Observability tools: Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana

About Royal London 

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.    

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.  

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits   

Inclusion, diversity and belonging  

We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.