Solution Architect - Data, Integration Platforms & Shared Services
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Location
Alderley Edge, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/18/2025
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Description
Job Title: Solution Architect - Data, Intergration Platforms & Shared Services
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Edge / Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 1st August 2025
At Royal London Group, we’re evolving the technology that underpins our most critical services. We’re looking for Solutions Architects to join our Data, Integration Platforms & Shared Services team, reporting to the Lead Domain Architect you’ll help shape the architectural backbone that enables innovation across the business—from cloud-native data platforms to modern integration patterns and shared capabilities.
This is a hands-on, forward-thinking role where you’ll collaborate with architects, engineers, and business partners to design solutions that are robust, scalable, and future-ready. You’ll be instrumental in delivering the platforms that support our long-term growth and customer impact.
Responsibilities
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleaguesis that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.
You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Edge / Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 1st August 2025
At Royal London Group, we’re evolving the technology that underpins our most critical services. We’re looking for Solutions Architects to join our Data, Integration Platforms & Shared Services team, reporting to the Lead Domain Architect you’ll help shape the architectural backbone that enables innovation across the business—from cloud-native data platforms to modern integration patterns and shared capabilities.
This is a hands-on, forward-thinking role where you’ll collaborate with architects, engineers, and business partners to design solutions that are robust, scalable, and future-ready. You’ll be instrumental in delivering the platforms that support our long-term growth and customer impact.
Responsibilities
- Interpret Business Needs: Translate business and technical requirements into clear architectural designs that support long-term product evolution and strategic goals.
- Assess Technology: Evaluate current systems for gaps and opportunities, guide end-of-life decisions, and recommend improvements to reduce technical debt and enhance efficiency.
- Apply Technology: Lead solution design across platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, security, and performance. Collaborate across teams to deliver robust, integrated solutions that drive business outcomes.
- Experience designing solutions in complex environments, ideally within financial services
- Strength in one or more of the following:
- Integration architecture using APIs, event-driven design, CQRS
- Data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Fabric, Power BI
- Platform engineering and shared services enablement
- Familiarity with Microsoft technologies, especially Azure and .NET
- A curious mindset and a passion for applying emerging tech to real-world challenges
- Strong communication skills and the ability to build consensus across diverse teams
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleaguesis that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.
You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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