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    Lead Systems Architect - United Kingdom - Willis Towers Watson

    Willis Towers Watson
    Willis Towers Watson United Kingdom

    2 days ago

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    Description
    WTW continuously strives to be at the forefront of this revolution with its Insurance Consulting and Technology (ICT) business. Now is therefore the perfect opportunity to become part of ICT and join a global and growing organisation.

    We are developing world-class, leading-edge risk analytics solutions and financial modeling software which is used by over 1,000 major insurance clients worldwide as well as many of the largest financial services companies.

    We are looking for a Lead System Architect to join our team and help us deliver modern cloud-based reserving application.

    Each Product Family consists of several highly skilled development teams following Agile methodologies to deliver market-leading insurance solutions.

    You will have experience as a System Architect and have started your career 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 of guiding and mentoring multi-disciplinary teams of software professionals in terms of systems design and architectural best practices.

    Key to the role is having a strategic bias, where you will propose and effectively implement key engineering and technology architectures in partnership with a mature Product Management and Engineering Management team.

    Business exposure/experience with a strong commercial awareness and focus.

    An innovator, capable of assessing disruptive market forces and/or technology and identifying application and implementation within an ISV business context.

    Work with Product Management and other key stakeholders to influence and define the product and technology roadmaps, ensuring technology evolution and technical debt reduction are considered as part of the product backlogs
    Work with Engineering teams to assess existing architectures and define short- and long-term strategy that converge both Product and Engineering needs into a coherent cloud-based/SaaS solution across multiple applications

    Be responsible for the identification and oversight of key internally developed components which are owned by the project team (s) but may be shared with other product families.

    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.

    Provide support to your Engineering Managers when they are project troubleshooting, leading with strategic application of technical skills.
    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 WTW development centres, take part in numerous cross collaborative innovative projects both locally and globally.

    Designing and delivering high-performance and scalable data-driven on-premise, 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.
    Experience in architecting enterprise solutions in Azure, with AWS or GCP highly regarded

    Ability to work as part of a strategic leadership team, being a voice for technology activities and prioritisation in a mixed commercial, product and engineering leadership team, including experience contributing to a technology roadmap.

    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.

    Infrastructure technologies and topologies, templating and deployment
    SLA's, DR, monitoring, 1st- 3rd line support).

    Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to adjust interaction and messaging to different levels across different disciplines (engineering, product, actuarial).

    Familiarity and experience with data analytics and data management techniques, platforms and standards.
    Familiarity working within a regulated business landscape within financial services.
    F amiliarity and experience with data analytics and data management techniques, platforms and standards.
    Familiarity working within a regulated business landscape within financial services.
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