Job Description
Role Purpose
Lead the design and governance of business and technology solutions, working closely with stakeholders to align architecture with strategic objectives. You will translate business needs into scalable, secure solutions, provide architecture guidance across change initiatives, and assess the organisational impact of technology and business transformation.
Responsibilities:
- Apply enterprise architecture standards, governance, and best practices across business and technology change initiatives.
- Build strong stakeholder relationships and communicate complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Assess the business and operational impact of solutions to support successful adoption and delivery.
Requirements
We are seeking a hybrid architect who can bridge business strategy and technology delivery, working closely with senior stakeholders to understand business capabilities, processes, and operating models to deliver practical, business-focused solutions. Experience within financial services, insurance, pensions, investment management, or consulting in regulated environments is highly desirable.
Technical Attributes:
- Solution Architecture covering application, data, integration and cloud platforms
- Enterprise Architecture Governance and Standards
- Cloud (Ideally), Microsoft Azure and Modern Technology Architecture experience
- TOGAF, Agile and DevOps Delivery Practices preferable
Personal Attributes:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to simplify complex business and technology challenges.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proven stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to engage and challenge at all levels.
- Ability to translate complex information into clear architecture artefacts, presentations, decision papers, and visual models
DE&I at PIC
At PIC, we believe that true innovation stems from embracing diverse perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. We are committed to building a workplace where every individual, regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, or socio-economic background, feels valued, heard and empowered to succeed. We hold ourselves accountable through ongoing initiatives, such as inclusive hiring practices, and equitable career development opportunities that support belonging and community. While we’re proud of our progress, we recognise there’s work ahead, and we remain dedicated to listening, learning and evolving together.
Benefits
In addition to a competitive base salary and the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan, upon joining us here at Pension Insurance Corporation, you will get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 28 days' annual leave (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme and much more.
Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) is a company with a clear purpose, a strong link to the creation of social value, and a culture that allows our employees to grow with the company and see the contribution they make to our success. PIC pays the pensions of hundreds of thousands of members and former members of UK defined benefit pension schemes.
We invest in long-term assets, like UK infrastructure and regeneration projects, to provide the very long-term cashflows we need to pay those pensions over the coming decades. These investments have the beneficial outcome of supporting jobs and apprenticeships, driving economic growth, and creating significant social value.
Our objective is to create long-term social value as we fulfil our purpose, leading to sustainable benefits for the economy, the environment and society. It gives our policyholders, employees, and others a sense of community and engagement as we continue to transition to a more green and sustainable way of working. There are four distinct pillars:
- Protecting the environment by transitioning to Net Zero, meeting our carbon commitments
and increasing the positive biodiversity impact of our real assets. - Being a responsible investor by integrating ESG into our investment processes, active participation in ESG industry initiatives, as well as investing in Sustainable Assets and mapping the impact they create.
- Making communities sustainable, safe, and inclusive by investing across the UK in assets that provide essential services, helping turn brownfield assets into greener alternatives, providing local employment and skill development opportunities and providing financial and non-financial charity support.
- Long-term sustainable business by promoting a culture that is inclusive and diverse, providing detailed and transparent reporting, and ensuring long-term alignment of stakeholders.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer: we treat everyone equally, regardless of age, gender identity, race and ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation or religion. Our DEI activity is incorporated into our hiring process and the makeup of our organisation.
PIC supports several DEI initiatives through corporate sponsorship including Social Capital
Network, the Actuarial Mentoring Programme (AMP), LGBT Great, GAIN (Girls Are INvestors), the 10000 Interns Foundation and Women In Banking & Finance, which provides female colleagues, at all levels, with access to development and networking opportunities, and the business with channels to recruit more female talent. We have a PIC Women’s Network and a dedicated Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Forum, which is comprised of employees from across the business.
Our gender pay gap figure of 11.4% is below the financial services indicative average of 22.7%. PIC recruited approximately 146 new joiners since 2022 and of these, 43% were women.
Outside of our day-to-day roles, our people enjoy a variety of events throughout the year which
bring us altogether, including: sports teams, including netball and football, monthly Town Halls, our famous annual Treasure Hunt, our summer PICnic, tyPICal Days, and charity fundraisers e.g. End of Summer Party, annual quizzes. The notions of making a difference and giving back are a key part of life here at PIC.
Our two main charity partners are Independent Age and Rethink Mental Illness with various events occurring throughout the year such as half marathons. We encourage our people to participate by offering two days’ volunteer leave per year and also match charitable fundraising.
Depending on your role, what you need and what the business needs, we may support you in gaining a professional qualification. Our dedicated Learning & Development team is here to support you, creating learning environments where you can continuously develop to reach your potential and meet your career goals. Learning is about much more than just attending courses, and includes classroom training, virtual training, digital training, coaching, mentoring, and knowledge sharing events. During 2023, we were delighted to be awarded Investors in People Silver Award.
Workplace Initiatives
- Programme for parents returning to work after Parental Leave? Yes
- Leadership development programmes? Yes
- Mentoring programmes? Yes
- Coaching programmes? Yes
- Employee-led diversity networks? Yes
- Internal women’s networking groups? Yes
- Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage? Yes