Opportunities in General Insurance – Enterprise Architecture

Opportunities in General Insurance – Enterprise Architecture Opportunities in General Insurance – Enterprise Architecture
About Baringa: We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.As a Certified B Corporation, we've proven that we've built social and environmental good into every bit of what we do.We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made. Our General Insurance practice are looking for anexperienced Enterprise Architect to join the team Our Insurance practice works with the leadingInsurers and Distributors across strategic advisory projects right through tobusiness and technical change delivery. We are at the cutting edge of theindustry and the wider ecosystem, helping our clients improve their profitability,navigate regulatory change and implement new technology solutions. What you will be doing Provide consultancy end-end from the start-up phase through to implementation of projects, ensuring high level architecture assurance and design assurance throughout client deliveryUnderstand product plans, identify, and manage product design dependencies and design decisions, and provide support for identifying resource expertise based on solution complexity and designReview and challenge the high-level cost of proposed solutions ensuring cost covers all aspects of technical elements, infrastructure, work breakdown and resource costFacilitate development of enterprise-wide solutions that include business & technology capabilities, define and communicate the current and future state architecture for a business portfolio including roadmaps and prioritisationIdentify and deliver innovative architecture and solutions that generate business value in terms of scale, agility, and monetisation of opportunitiesFacilitate strategy development, analysing, and spotting opportunities to land enterprise and portfolio technology strategies which can deliver desired business outcomes to clientsImprove business performance through solutions and capabilities including Customer Experience, Web/Cloud, IoT, Collaboration, Augmented and Virtual Reality and Edge computingEngage with industry bodies and independent market analysis organisations to monitor global technology trends and provide insights to clients and inform our GTM service offeringsChair Design Authorities for various design deliverables across client projects and ensure collaborative agreement by Security, Service and Solution Delivery on proposed designsOwn, champion and demonstrate cost transparency, value delivery, service sustainability from the architecture strategies we implement for client and across our architecture practiceEffectively engage and manage key client relationships collaboratively across the architecture community including the wider capabilities of Solution delivery, Service Delivery, Security (including external vendors) and within relevant business areasBe a “trusted advisor” to a range of stakeholders - provide consultancy and influence senior Business/ IS leadership teams
Opportunities in General Insurance – Enterprise Architecture
About Baringa: We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.As a Certified B Corporation, we've proven that we've built social and environmental good into every bit of what we do.We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made. Our General Insurance practice are looking for anexperienced Enterprise Architect to join the team Our Insurance practice works with the leadingInsurers and Distributors across strategic advisory projects right through tobusiness and technical change delivery. We are at the cutting edge of theindustry and the wider ecosystem, helping our clients improve their profitability,navigate regulatory change and implement new technology solutions. What you will be doing
Provide consultancy end-end from the start-up phase through to implementation of projects, ensuring high level architecture assurance and design assurance throughout client deliveryUnderstand product plans, identify, and manage product design dependencies and design decisions, and provide support for identifying resource expertise based on solution complexity and designReview and challenge the high-level cost of proposed solutions ensuring cost covers all aspects of technical elements, infrastructure, work breakdown and resource costFacilitate development of enterprise-wide solutions that include business & technology capabilities, define and communicate the current and future state architecture for a business portfolio including roadmaps and prioritisationIdentify and deliver innovative architecture and solutions that generate business value in terms of scale, agility, and monetisation of opportunitiesFacilitate strategy development, analysing, and spotting opportunities to land enterprise and portfolio technology strategies which can deliver desired business outcomes to clientsImprove business performance through solutions and capabilities including Customer Experience, Web/Cloud, IoT, Collaboration, Augmented and Virtual Reality and Edge computingEngage with industry bodies and independent market analysis organisations to monitor global technology trends and provide insights to clients and inform our GTM service offeringsChair Design Authorities for various design deliverables across client projects and ensure collaborative agreement by Security, Service and Solution Delivery on proposed designsOwn, champion and demonstrate cost transparency, value delivery, service sustainability from the architecture strategies we implement for client and across our architecture practiceEffectively engage and manage key client relationships collaboratively across the architecture community including the wider capabilities of Solution delivery, Service Delivery, Security (including external vendors) and within relevant business areasBe a “trusted advisor” to a range of stakeholders - provide consultancy and influence senior Business/ IS leadership teams
Your skills and experience You’ll have extensive experience of working in strategic IT roles, ideally at a mid-senior architecture levelYou will have experience working in the General Insurance market and broader commercial insurance through industry or consulting, understand the technology landscape and operating practices that shape how general insurance is distributed and administeredYou’ll have experience across Web & Cloud architectures gained through design and implementation activitiesYou’ll be an expert in using enterprise/solution architecture tools and techniques and of applying architecture governance and design assurance processesDemonstrated understanding of architecture deliverables through the project life cycle based on complexity and timeline of projects/programmesYou’ll be highly experienced of working in a multi-vendor and multi stakeholder environmentExperience of developing enterprise architectures in large corporate environments, including strategy formulation, roadmap development and target architecturesDemonstrate experience in participating in large scale software development projects, providing advice, guidance and architectural services into engineering teams, and programme delivery teams, across the SDLC
What a career at Baringa will give you
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People
First. Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.Career Progression: No one develops at the same pace. That’s why we have quarterly rather than annual promotion reviews. We don’t have any quotas: if you’re ready and delivering at the right level, you’ll get that promotion.Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.
Diversity and Inclusion. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people. An award-winning workplace. You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here
to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this. Using business as a force for good. At Baringa we believe that everyone creates a lasting impact when you put people - customers, employees, investors, suppliers, and society – first. Our B Corp certification shows that we’ve met and held ourselves accountable to high standards of social and environmental performance and transparency. Our award-winning people-first philosophy makes us distinctive - Be Kind. Be Curious. Be Great at Work.We’re proud of our recent exploration of kindness and its role in business in our first-ever brand campaign:
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