Solution Architect

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Solution Architect (Job Number: )

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Location: London, UK

We invent the new to help the world move forward. Combining powerful analytics and deeper insights with bigger ideas and innovative solutions, we free up our clients' potential, thereby fulfilling our own. Take it seriously. Make it fun. Know it matters.

As we develop an enterprise-wide data and digital strategy that moves us toward greater focus on the use of data and data-driven insights, we are seeking a Data & Digital Solutions Architect. The Data & Digital Solutions Architect is a hands-on, execution-focused role helping translate the data and digital strategy to architecture and to execution. In this role, you will have an understanding of our data and analytical systems at a granular level, and function as organizational data and digital architecture subject matter expert for our various projects.

Your expertise in Discrete Data, API & Modular Design will help guide solutions for:

• Distributed, domain-driven, event-driven and microservices data architectures
• Enterprise and canonical data models for data domains and events
• Mediating event, API and microservices communication
• Reusable common data and digital services (e.g. document management, OCR, NLP, search)
• Internal and external consumption of our APIs and personalized experiences

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand AXA XL's existing architecture
• Translate user requirements and existing environments into an architecture and roadmap
• Collaborate with customers, analysts, other architects, modelers, developers, testers, partners, and vendors
• Guide the full lifecycle of a Solution, including:
• Understand the Business Capabilities and translate them to Technical Capabilities and Solution Architecture
• Assist in defining non-functional requirements for building out solution capabilities
• Design architecture and solutions to meet business requirements while balancing architectural standards and implementation risks
• Document solution interactions and relationships
• Assist in the creation of cost estimates including implementation and total cost of ownership
• Ensure future-state solutions are performant, scalable, and meet business needs
• Ensure security by design to meet Information Security policies and industry best practices
• Assess vendor tools and document justification for tool selection
• Demonstrate tools, patterns, security, performance, scalability in a lab environment
• Work with quality assurance team to ensure testing approaches are appropriate
• Lead design and implementation reviews to ensure principles and standards are followed
• Create a feedback loop for those implementing and interacting with the solutions
• Participate in defining adoption and experience metrics for the solution
• Present architecture decisions and educate others on contributions
• Document cost and performance metrics for different design patterns
• Participate in the definition and maintenance of Architecture principles and artifacts
• Engage with tool vendors and industry experts to validate architecture and designs
• Document data flow and storage mechanisms
• Work with data modelers to ensure modeling approach is appropriate
• Experience with enterprise API and Event-driven architecture is a plus

Qualifications:

• General direction with clear accountability
• Guide and mentor project & team colleagues
• Work on complex issues/problems requiring business acumen and leadership
• Resolve problems requiring advanced skills and training
• Established experience within relevant architecture roles
• Broad insurance and deep architecture expertise
• Ability to communicate business problems & technical solutions
• Excellent presentation, communication, and relationship-building skills
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail
• Excellent problem-solving and analysis skills
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to work as part of a team or self-directed
• Experience working as part of a global team
• Knowledge and active use of Agile, SCRUM, and Continuous Delivery
• Understanding cultural differences in a diverse environment
• Passion for learning and going the extra mile
• Experience working within a data-driven organization
• Hands-on experience with architecting, implementing, and performance tuning of:
• Data Lake technologies (e.g. Delta Lake, Parquet, Spark, Databricks)
• API & Microservices
• Message queues, streaming technologies, event-driven architecture
• NoSQL databases and query languages
• Data domain and event data models
• Data Modelling
• Logging and monitoring
• Container and Container Orchestration
• UX and UI
• Azure cloud platform environment
• Data access control and security
• Integration and Data Pipeline/ETL/ELT technologies
• DevOps and CI/CD

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AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals, and even some inspirational individuals, we don't just provide re/insurance; we reinvent it.

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.