Lead Solution Architect

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Lead Solutions Architect

Permanent

Location:  Edinburgh, Peterborough or Witham (typically 2 days in the office per week, 3 from home)

Salary: A competitive salary from £75,200 - £112,800 depending on the experience you can bring

Closing date: 10 December 2024

We're Aegon. We're a company of ambitious, positive problem-solvers who get things done. We're a team, not a group of individuals. Collaboration is our life force and we believe it's our duty to leave things better than we find them.  

We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging.

An opportunity has arisen for a Lead Solutions Architect to join our team on a permanent basis. As Lead Solutions Architect you will be accountable for leading and managing a team of solution architects across our portfolio of change and represent the organisation as a whole for technical solutions. You will play a lead role in the Technical Design Authority that ensures that all design decisions have sufficient scrutiny to ensure robust challenge, fitting with our strategic direction.

Responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

• Providing thought leadership through the analysis of complex business functional changes

• Line Management of a team of Solution Architects.

• Providing specialist technical definition to deliver complex business functional changes

• Supporting project resources for the production of a Architecture Definition with recommended solutions.

• Leading on strategic relationships with key business stakeholders

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience in leading and managing a team of line reports or have demonstrated this skillset through coaching and mentoring junior colleagues.

• Significant experience of designing business processes and applications

• Familiarity with AWS services and architecture best practice

• A proven track record of providing expert specialist technical advice and consultancy to a variety of business stakeholders and other areas of IT.

• Strong relationship management skills- ability to manage senior stakeholders up to and including Executive level – to build relationships that engender confidence in the technical delivery capabilities 

• Decision making and Business influencing skills - ability to support vendor and service provider management, including negotiations, contract terms and conditions, competitive bidding processes.

It would also be great but not essential if you have:

• Experience in the design and application of architecture within the Financial Services industry, in particular investment platforms

What’s in it for you?

• A non-contributory pension between 8%-12%

• A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance

• 37 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)

We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.

The legal bits

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.