Enterprise Architect

Salary: £60,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong enterprise architecture skills and experience, including pragmatic, guidance-oriented, outcomes-focused architecture governance at group or global scale.
• Excellent knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and demonstrated expertise in API lifecycle management and governance.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale API platforms using Azure technologies, including Azure API Management, Logic Apps, and Service Bus.
• Strong experience enabling monitoring, alerting, telemetry, auditing, and business/technical metrics across integration platforms.
• Expertise in designing API contracts and applying an API-first approach, including a strong understanding of the APIOps methodology.
• Proficiency with the Postman Enterprise platform, developer portals, API catalogues, and API lifecycle and testing tools.
• Experience with scripting and automation tooling such as PowerShell, Pester, YAML, Spectral, and Terraform.
• Skills and experience developing capability models, application and technology catalogues, and roadmaps, preferably within the insurance domain.
• Strong architecture and IT governance experience, including establishing and running Architecture Review Boards and Design Authorities for major change programmes.
• Strong understanding of secure design and secure development practices and frameworks.
• Experience in enterprise environments with change management and governance processes.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to tailor messages to senior stakeholders and technical delivery teams.
• Desirable: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent.
• Desirable: Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate or equivalent Associate-level Azure certification.
• Desirable: BCS certification in Enterprise & Solution Architecture, TOGAF, or Archimate certification.
• Desirable: Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Desirable: Experience with other integration platforms such as BizTalk, MuleSoft, Informatica, or Boomi.
• Desirable: Experience integrating with platforms such as Salesforce, Reltio, legacy insurance systems, and data platforms.
• Desirable: Experience with pro developer languages and enterprise low-code platforms such as C#, YAML, XSLT, Liquid Templates, Logic Apps, and RPA.
• Desirable: Experience of AI coding tools such as Claude Code and GitHub Copilot.
• Desirable: Knowledge of working in a regulated environment and awareness of global insurance regulatory requirements.
• Desirable: Good knowledge of enterprise-grade CRM, HR, and Finance systems, and Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing technologies.
• Desirable: Insurance domain experience, preferably within broking and/or the London Market.

Responsibilities:

• Provide architectural leadership and strategic direction for our core integration and technology platform.
• Shape and govern the architecture of our Digital Backbone as the foundational layer connecting systems, data, and services across the enterprise.
• Define, own, and communicate the enterprise architecture of the Digital Backbone as our strategic integration platform.
• Architect and lead the design, development, and deployment of APIs and integrations in alignment with enterprise standards and strategic goals.
• Drive adoption of API-first design principles and the APIOps methodology across the integration lifecycle, including automation of API deployment and governance.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate architecture artefacts including policies, standards, principles, patterns, templates, and capability models.
• Manage Group Enterprise Architecture assets such as application and technology catalogues, roadmaps, and capability models within the EA management repository.
• Define and enforce architectural standards and best practices for integration and API design, development, and management.
• Chair and run architecture governance forums on behalf of Group IT leadership, including decision-making frameworks, regular meetings, and governance reporting.
• Conduct architectural reviews and provide guidance to development teams on integration patterns, best practices, and compliance requirements.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring alignment with security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
• Undertake due diligence of vendor systems and solutions to ensure alignment with Group IT policies and standards.
• Evangelise our Digital Backbone architecture and technology stack through documentation, internal communications, and stakeholder engagement.
• Attend key change programme, project, and business stakeholder meetings to provide Group IT Enterprise Architecture guidance and direction.
• Undertake consultative engagements with teams across the wider business as a subject matter expert in integration architecture and Digital Backbone capabilities.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, platform leads, and business stakeholders to align integration solutions with strategic goals.
• Continuously assess and optimise integration solutions and tooling for performance, scalability, maintainability, observability, and self-service capability.
• Lead technical discussions, mentor team members, and foster a culture of innovation, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Work in an agile, collaborative manner and adapt to evolving business needs and technology trends.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• Architect
• ArchiMate
• Azure
• Backbone
• Business Intelligence
• C#
• Claude Code
• Copilot
• CRM
• GitHub
• Informatica
• Support
• Liquid
• MuleSoft
• Postman
• PowerShell
• RPA
• Salesforce
• Security
• TOGAF
• Terraform
• Cloud
• DevOps

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We are Howden, a global insurance group with employee ownership at its heart, spanning more than 56 countries and 24,000 employees. Our culture is central to who we are, and we value collaboration, a no-limits mindset, and people who want to make a positive difference at work and beyond. This is a permanent, full-time role based in London. We support reasonable accommodations, including software, IT, office setups, flexible hours, and hybrid working where the position allows.

last updated 36 week of 2026