Lead Solutions Architect at Scottish Widows shaping the future of financial services. Focused on innovative, scalable solutions and driving complex change across multi-functional teams in insurance and pensions.
Responsibilities
You'll operate at the heart of the Customer & Colleague Services Platform, within the Insurance, Pensions & Investments division of Scottish Widows, partnering closely with Product Owners, Engineering Teams and Enterprise Architecture.
Your influence will guide several multi-functional feature teams, located across Edinburgh, Leeds, Bristol and Hyderabad - helping them balance delivery pace with strategic architectural vision.
Defining Target Solution Architectures for APIs & microservices, CCaaS telephony, colleague tooling, robotics and AI powered automation, agentic, and much more.
Designing how AI can amplify what we do - not as hype, but as thoughtful, responsible, value-creating capability (Nice to Have).
Simplifying and modernising our service driven architecture, so we can scale, digitise and differentiate at pace (Key).
Defining and crafting the Platform’s data strategy for scaled actionable intelligence (Key).
Working with teams to modernise and optimise our back-office operations and efficiency.
Requirements
Experience leading complex change across multiple interdependent systems
Deep knowledge of web and API architectures - microservices, CQRS, publish subscribe, and event‑subscribe and event‑driven patterns
Experience designing for security, reliability and scale
Strong understanding of authentication/single sign on (OAuth) and encryption (in transit and at‑rest)
Hands‑on experience defining patterns, standards and practices
Nice to have Cloud platform experience (GCP preferred, Azure or AWS also valuable)
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