Job Description

Solution Architect - Solution Design

Insurance

Wipro is an exciting organization to work for. In our first year entering, we ranked as a "Top Employer" as part of the Top Employer Institute annual listings, and we were assessed on several key HR practices including People Strategy, Work Environment, Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development, Wellbeing and Diversity and Inclusion .

Banking and Financial Services is an area of strategic importance to Wipro, and we are poised to grow significantly in Europe enabling our customers with digital transformation, cloud adoption and other critical digital initiatives. As a trusted partner, we enable our customers adopt digital ways of working through IT and process transformations, increase agility and optimise cost through cloud adoption, automation and AI and drive effective data solutions.

We work closely with our strategic partner ecosystem to add value to our customers though innovation and maximising value of existing or planned investments and assets. We do this through our unique blend of outside -in transformation and inside out transformation underpinned by portfolio of digital services and domain capabilities.

Purpose of the role:

We are Insurance and Life Insurance subject matter expert and advice provision and understand the insurance business from an end-to-end perspective - relevant lines of business, insurance products, processes, data used, systems, applications, and infrastructure - all the relevant technology landscape - including any third-party suppliers and providers that the business is dependent on provision of analytical and problem solving; think \'out of the box\' for improvements.

We are looking for an exceptional Solutions Architect with experience and understanding of the UK insurance market, who will join our insurance practice.

The purpose of the Solution Architect role is to:

• Define end-to-end solutions for IT change
• Create designs that are fit for purpose from a functional, non-functional, service, and security point of view
• Deliver solutions that progress the overall architecture journey and are aligned to the clients IT Strategy
• Comply with standards, design approaches and governance

Key Tasks & Responsibilities:

Nature of Work

Solutions and Assurance

• Create solutions and design for projects to meet client standards for technology and ensure they meet our ambitions for availability, security, resilience and performance.
• Produce design options with associated costs, benefits and risks to enable investment decisions
• Work with product owners, architects, platform teams and other project colleagues to agree trade-offs between, long-term and short term goals
• Responsible for the integrity of the end-to-end solution across Platforms, including transition states used to achieve the target state
• Shape and estimate IT initiatives and feature team sprints, ensuring that component parts deliver against business outcomes

Technical Leadership

• Provide leadership on key designs to ensure the long term strategic goals of the clients IT are met as well as short term project needs
• Ensure design artefacts are produced to support stakeholder group for service, security, architecture and engineering
• Peer review the design artefacts of others
• Provide coaching, mentoring and training to less experienced team members as required

Design Community membership

• Contribute to the Solution Architecture community across client structureleading on or participating in initiatives to improve clients approach to design
• Develop your technical skills to support the clients need to understand and exploit emerging technology trends

Risk & Controls

• Identify, own and manage the specific key risks and/ or IT controls and BP standards that you are identified as the owner and/ or nominee for on iCARE or Archer;

• Ensure that issues and actions associated to controls / risks are remediated in a timely manner
• Maintain appropriate records on iCARE or Archer
• Ensure that controls are sufficiently well designed and operating effectively to keep the risks that they mitigate within clients tolerance level
• Report and escalate the status of the relevant risks, controls and standards as appropriate.

Resource Complexity

• Accountable for working within policy and guidelines, applying technical knowledge and expertise, and prioritising own use of time:

Problem Solving

• The essence of the role is project- based problem solving.
• Accountable for solving problems and dealing with difficulties in line with policy, process and other guidelines applying technical knowledge and expertise.
• Depending on the nature of the specific role, problems can range from repetitive daily issues to complex technical problems requiring significant expertise \xe2\x80\xa2 Escalate problems according to guidelines.

Change

• Recommend design solutions or ideas in response to challenges faced by your project or feature team in line with policy, process and other guidelines.
• Accountable for recommending change based on expert know how and analysis
• Take personal initiative in adapting to change

Internal collaboration

• Build effective working relationships with:

• Project managers and others on projects
• Platform Managers and Specialist
• Platform Architects and Designers

External interaction

• Maintain liaison with suppliers and the relevant sources of technology to ensure the specialist knowledge is kept up to date.

Timeframe

• Role holder will be assigned to projects and initiatives of varying size and complexity, with typical timeframes ranging from 3-18 months.
• Longest target completion time of tasks likely to be 3 months.

KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Excellent design skills
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end project lifecycle methodologies (mainly agile).
• Strong technical experience, this maybe broad experience with the ability to apply it across a variety of customer and business scenarios; or strong domain specialisms to maximise the benefit of technology in key areas e.g. Infrastructure, Business Intelligence, Pensions.
• The role holder must care about technology and how to exploit it for the benefit of our customers.
• Financial acumen to support development of business cases and to inform key design decisions.
• Ability to balance long-term direction and necessary short-term goals.
• Good communication skills with the ability to provide technical guidance to peers and project colleagues.
• Strong personal impact and influence
• Good stakeholder and relationship management
• Leadership skills

This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities , other duties will be included and will be determined dependent on the project type, landscape, context and project lifecycle, and specifically on customer and project needs .

Wipro is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and makes all employment and employment-related decisions without regard to a person\'s race, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by ap plicable law.

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