hackajob is collaborating with Admiral Group Plc to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. The Guidewire Solution Architect is part of the Architecture practice within the CTO organisation, supporting the design and delivery of end-to-end solutions across Admiral's core insurance platforms, digital customer channels and integration landscape. The role provides technology consultancy, architecture leadership and solution design expertise, with primary focus on Guidewire PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, Digital Portal and Customer Engagement solutions. Working closely with Lead Solution Architects, Engineering teams, Product Owners, Delivery Leads, Heads of Technology and Business Stakeholders, the role ensures that solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable and aligned with Admiral's Enterprise Architecture Principles, Technology Roadmaps and Strategic Vision. The role contributes to enterprise roadmaps, architecture standards, governance forums and wider transformation initiatives, helping to ensure that change delivered through projects, programmes, value streams and innovation initiatives delivers business value while maintaining alignment with Admiral's target architecture and strategic technology direction. Key Responsibilities Provide technical leadership and architecture support for value streams, working with Lead Solution Architects to own solutions from ideation through to delivery and ensure business value is realised through successful implementation. Define end-to-end solution architectures spanning Guidewire platforms, Digital Channels, Integration Platforms, Enterprise Services and supporting technology ecosystems. Provide architectural leadership for Guidewire PolicyCenter, BillingCenter and digital customer-facing solutions. Define solution approaches for Guidewire product configuration, integration design, platform extensions, customer journeys and digital capabilities. Lead architecture workshops with business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements, assess impacts, evaluate solution options and drive architectural decisions. Lead and contribute to governance forums, ensuring solutions adhere to established architecture principles, standards and patterns, and identifying and managing divergence where required. Define integration strategies between Guidewire platforms and enterprise applications using APIs, messaging, event-driven architectures and enterprise integration patterns. Support strategic initiatives, platform modernisation programmes and technology transformation activities across the insurance landscape. Produce high-quality architecture artefacts, including Solution Outlines, High Level Designs, Architecture Decision Records, Option Papers, conceptual and logical architecture designs, integration designs, technical risk assessments and roadmaps. Ensure architectural decisions, assumptions, dependencies, risks, principles and non-functional requirements are documented and communicated effectively across stakeholders. Work closely with engineering teams to ensure architectural intent is maintained throughout delivery and implementation. Identify and manage architectural risks, technical debt, technology constraints and cross-programme dependencies. Build productive relationships with business and technical stakeholders to maintain alignment between business objectives and technology strategy. Contribute to and maintain a detailed understanding of the architecture landscape across supported value streams. Contribute to the architecture repository using Admiral architecture modelling tools, standards and language. Promote architecture best practice within Admiral and support the continuous evolution of enterprise architecture standards and patterns. Support innovation through research and evaluation of emerging technologies and industry trends, producing recommendations on opportunities, threats and strategic technology direction. Keep the Head of Solution Architecture and CTO leadership informed of significant architecture risks, issues, dependencies and strategic considerations. Essential Skills and Experience Strong experience architecting solutions using Guidewire PolicyCenter and BillingCenter. Proven experience designing end-to-end enterprise solutions within Guidewire ecosystems, balancing business requirements, platform capabilities and architecture standards. Experience supporting Guidewire upgrades, migrations and platform modernisation programmes. Strong understanding of Guidewire platform architecture and associated design principles. Experience with Guidewire configuration concepts, including Product Configuration, Product Designer, Business Rules, Workflows, Data Model Extensions, Screen Configuration, User Experience Design, Rating and Underwriting concepts. Experience defining architecture and design approaches for Guidewire customisation, extension and configuration while promoting adoption of out-of-the-box platform capabilities. Experience designing and reviewing integrations between Guidewire platforms and enterprise applications. Strong understanding of Guidewire integration capabilities, including REST APIs, web services, messaging frameworks, batch interfaces and event-driven integrations. Experience designing solutions involving Guidewire platforms, Digital Channels, Customer Portals and Enterprise Services. Strong understanding of API architecture, integration patterns, messaging architectures and service-oriented design principles. Experience with one or more enterprise integration technologies such as TIBCO, MuleSoft, Azure or GCP Integration Services, or Kafka-based platforms. Experience designing enterprise solutions that satisfy security, resilience, scalability, performance, supportability and operational requirements. Understanding of cloud architecture principles and modern software engineering practices. Experience working with Agile delivery teams, DevOps principles and CI/CD delivery pipelines. Experience producing architecture artefacts, including Solution Outlines, High Level Designs, Architecture Decision Records, integration designs and option assessments. Experience facilitating architecture workshops, stakeholder engagement sessions and solution design discussions. Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at all organisational levels. Recognised expertise in architecture, solution design, technology strategy and the practical application of architecture within enterprise environments. Ability to take innovative approaches to problem solving and develop pragmatic, value-driven solutions. Ability to keep organisational objectives and strategic direction in mind when making architecture decisions. Understanding of commercial considerations, ensuring architecture recommendations reflect business value and strategic goals. Proactive approach to identifying risks, opportunities and continuous improvement initiatives. Desired Skills and Experience Experience with Guidewire Cloud Platform implementations and modern deployment approaches. Knowledge of Guidewire DataHub, InfoCenter or insurance reporting ecosystems. Experience delivering Digital Portal, Customer Self-Service or Customer Engagement solutions. Experience with containerisation and platform technologies such as Kubernetes, GKE or AKS. Experience within Insurance, Financial Services or other highly regulated industries. Knowledge of enterprise data architecture, analytics and reporting platforms. Experience evaluating AI-assisted engineering, architecture tooling or GenAI-enabled solutions. Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks, governance practices and architecture modelling approaches. Awareness of current and emerging standards associated with IT practice nationally and internationally, including standards published by organisations such as IEEE, IEC, BSI and ISO. Understanding of principles, methods and techniques for managing technology investment, budgeting and value-driven delivery. What Success Looks Like Solution architectures are clear, robust and aligned with Admiral's Enterprise Architecture Principles, Technology Roadmaps and Strategic Vision. Guidewire, digital and integration solutions are designed to be scalable, secure, maintainable and operationally sustainable. Architecture decisions are well documented, appropriately governed and clearly communicated to business and technical stakeholders. Engineering teams understand the architectural intent and are enabled to deliver solutions effectively. Stakeholders have confidence that solution options, risks, dependencies and trade-offs are clearly understood and managed. Architecture governance is applied pragmatically, supporting delivery while maintaining alignment with standards and strategic direction. Technical risks, constraints, dependencies and technical debt are identified early and managed effectively. Architecture recommendations support business value, commercial considerations and long-term technology strategy. Working arrangements This is a remote role, with an expectation to attend the Ty Admiral Cardiff office once per month or as and when required. 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Jul 14, 2026
Full time
hackajob is collaborating with Admiral Group Plc to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. The Guidewire Solution Architect is part of the Architecture practice within the CTO organisation, supporting the design and delivery of end-to-end solutions across Admiral's core insurance platforms, digital customer channels and integration landscape. The role provides technology consultancy, architecture leadership and solution design expertise, with primary focus on Guidewire PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, Digital Portal and Customer Engagement solutions. Working closely with Lead Solution Architects, Engineering teams, Product Owners, Delivery Leads, Heads of Technology and Business Stakeholders, the role ensures that solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable and aligned with Admiral's Enterprise Architecture Principles, Technology Roadmaps and Strategic Vision. The role contributes to enterprise roadmaps, architecture standards, governance forums and wider transformation initiatives, helping to ensure that change delivered through projects, programmes, value streams and innovation initiatives delivers business value while maintaining alignment with Admiral's target architecture and strategic technology direction. Key Responsibilities Provide technical leadership and architecture support for value streams, working with Lead Solution Architects to own solutions from ideation through to delivery and ensure business value is realised through successful implementation. Define end-to-end solution architectures spanning Guidewire platforms, Digital Channels, Integration Platforms, Enterprise Services and supporting technology ecosystems. Provide architectural leadership for Guidewire PolicyCenter, BillingCenter and digital customer-facing solutions. Define solution approaches for Guidewire product configuration, integration design, platform extensions, customer journeys and digital capabilities. Lead architecture workshops with business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements, assess impacts, evaluate solution options and drive architectural decisions. Lead and contribute to governance forums, ensuring solutions adhere to established architecture principles, standards and patterns, and identifying and managing divergence where required. Define integration strategies between Guidewire platforms and enterprise applications using APIs, messaging, event-driven architectures and enterprise integration patterns. Support strategic initiatives, platform modernisation programmes and technology transformation activities across the insurance landscape. Produce high-quality architecture artefacts, including Solution Outlines, High Level Designs, Architecture Decision Records, Option Papers, conceptual and logical architecture designs, integration designs, technical risk assessments and roadmaps. Ensure architectural decisions, assumptions, dependencies, risks, principles and non-functional requirements are documented and communicated effectively across stakeholders. Work closely with engineering teams to ensure architectural intent is maintained throughout delivery and implementation. Identify and manage architectural risks, technical debt, technology constraints and cross-programme dependencies. Build productive relationships with business and technical stakeholders to maintain alignment between business objectives and technology strategy. Contribute to and maintain a detailed understanding of the architecture landscape across supported value streams. Contribute to the architecture repository using Admiral architecture modelling tools, standards and language. Promote architecture best practice within Admiral and support the continuous evolution of enterprise architecture standards and patterns. Support innovation through research and evaluation of emerging technologies and industry trends, producing recommendations on opportunities, threats and strategic technology direction. Keep the Head of Solution Architecture and CTO leadership informed of significant architecture risks, issues, dependencies and strategic considerations. Essential Skills and Experience Strong experience architecting solutions using Guidewire PolicyCenter and BillingCenter. Proven experience designing end-to-end enterprise solutions within Guidewire ecosystems, balancing business requirements, platform capabilities and architecture standards. Experience supporting Guidewire upgrades, migrations and platform modernisation programmes. Strong understanding of Guidewire platform architecture and associated design principles. Experience with Guidewire configuration concepts, including Product Configuration, Product Designer, Business Rules, Workflows, Data Model Extensions, Screen Configuration, User Experience Design, Rating and Underwriting concepts. Experience defining architecture and design approaches for Guidewire customisation, extension and configuration while promoting adoption of out-of-the-box platform capabilities. Experience designing and reviewing integrations between Guidewire platforms and enterprise applications. Strong understanding of Guidewire integration capabilities, including REST APIs, web services, messaging frameworks, batch interfaces and event-driven integrations. Experience designing solutions involving Guidewire platforms, Digital Channels, Customer Portals and Enterprise Services. Strong understanding of API architecture, integration patterns, messaging architectures and service-oriented design principles. Experience with one or more enterprise integration technologies such as TIBCO, MuleSoft, Azure or GCP Integration Services, or Kafka-based platforms. Experience designing enterprise solutions that satisfy security, resilience, scalability, performance, supportability and operational requirements. Understanding of cloud architecture principles and modern software engineering practices. Experience working with Agile delivery teams, DevOps principles and CI/CD delivery pipelines. Experience producing architecture artefacts, including Solution Outlines, High Level Designs, Architecture Decision Records, integration designs and option assessments. Experience facilitating architecture workshops, stakeholder engagement sessions and solution design discussions. Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at all organisational levels. Recognised expertise in architecture, solution design, technology strategy and the practical application of architecture within enterprise environments. Ability to take innovative approaches to problem solving and develop pragmatic, value-driven solutions. Ability to keep organisational objectives and strategic direction in mind when making architecture decisions. Understanding of commercial considerations, ensuring architecture recommendations reflect business value and strategic goals. Proactive approach to identifying risks, opportunities and continuous improvement initiatives. Desired Skills and Experience Experience with Guidewire Cloud Platform implementations and modern deployment approaches. Knowledge of Guidewire DataHub, InfoCenter or insurance reporting ecosystems. Experience delivering Digital Portal, Customer Self-Service or Customer Engagement solutions. Experience with containerisation and platform technologies such as Kubernetes, GKE or AKS. Experience within Insurance, Financial Services or other highly regulated industries. Knowledge of enterprise data architecture, analytics and reporting platforms. Experience evaluating AI-assisted engineering, architecture tooling or GenAI-enabled solutions. Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks, governance practices and architecture modelling approaches. Awareness of current and emerging standards associated with IT practice nationally and internationally, including standards published by organisations such as IEEE, IEC, BSI and ISO. Understanding of principles, methods and techniques for managing technology investment, budgeting and value-driven delivery. What Success Looks Like Solution architectures are clear, robust and aligned with Admiral's Enterprise Architecture Principles, Technology Roadmaps and Strategic Vision. Guidewire, digital and integration solutions are designed to be scalable, secure, maintainable and operationally sustainable. Architecture decisions are well documented, appropriately governed and clearly communicated to business and technical stakeholders. Engineering teams understand the architectural intent and are enabled to deliver solutions effectively. Stakeholders have confidence that solution options, risks, dependencies and trade-offs are clearly understood and managed. Architecture governance is applied pragmatically, supporting delivery while maintaining alignment with standards and strategic direction. Technical risks, constraints, dependencies and technical debt are identified early and managed effectively. Architecture recommendations support business value, commercial considerations and long-term technology strategy. Working arrangements This is a remote role, with an expectation to attend the Ty Admiral Cardiff office once per month or as and when required. 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hackajob is collaborating with Admiral Group Plc to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. As a Claims Solution Architect, you will be responsible for designing and governing end-to-end technical solutions across the Claims domain. The role will ensure that solutions are secure, scalable, compliant, performant, and aligned with digital strategy, hybrid cloud principles, architecture standards, and customer-focused delivery. You will provide solution architecture leadership across initiatives, working closely with product owners, delivery teams, subject matter experts, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, and wider stakeholders. The role will translate requirements into pragmatic architecture designs and provide architectural oversight throughout delivery, including MVP implementation and future extensibility. Key Responsibilities Lead solution architecture design for Claims initiatives, ensuring solutions are aligned to outcomes, customer needs, technology strategy, and regulatory expectations. Design and maintain solution outlines and architecture artefacts that support hybrid cloud strategy and delivery governance. Provide architectural leadership across the Claims domain, including solutions involving Guidewire ClaimCenter 10 and the wider Guidewire suite of systems. Translate requirements into secure, compliant, scalable, and performant technical architectures. Collaborate with product owners, delivery teams, subject matter experts, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, and wider stakeholders to shape and validate solution options. Govern the use of APIs, event-driven architecture, shared services, and integration patterns across Claims and adjacent domains. Provide architectural oversight during MVP delivery, ensuring solutions are fit for purpose while remaining scalable and extensible for future phases. Support delivery teams by clarifying architecture decisions, resolving design issues, and ensuring alignment to agreed architecture principles and patterns. Apply enterprise solution patterns and security patterns to ensure consistency, resilience, and compliance across solutions. Ensure architecture decisions consider the full end-to-end process and operational context. Produce high-quality architecture artefacts, including high-level designs and solution outlines, to support governance, delivery, and stakeholder understanding. Essential Skills and Experience Hands-on experience with Guidewire ClaimCenter or a similar Claims platform. Knowledge of Guidewire ClaimCenter 10 and the wider Guidewire suite of systems. Experience designing secure, scalable, and performant solution architectures. Knowledge of Azure services such as Blob Storage, API Management, Key Vault, AKS, Event Grid, Logic Apps, or comparable cloud services. Understanding of enterprise solution patterns and security patterns. Previous engineering experience, such as Java, C#, or other programming languages. Ability to produce high-quality architecture artefacts, including high-level designs and solution outlines. Ability to translate requirements into secure, compliant, and practical technical solutions. Experience supporting architecture governance and assurance throughout delivery. Experience designing solutions that support MVP delivery while allowing for future scalability and extensibility. Desired Skills and Experience Proven experience designing Claims solutions within the UK General Insurance sector. Strong understanding of Claims lifecycle processes, including FNOL, liability, repair, settlement, and fraud. Familiarity with regulatory frameworks including FCA, GDPR, and PRA, and their impact on Claims systems. Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to work effectively with Claims SMEs, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, product owners, delivery teams, and business stakeholders. Experience with cross-cloud architectures, particularly across Azure and GCP. Broader experience across adjacent insurance domains such as Policy, Digital, or shared services. Experience governing API-led and event-driven architectures across multiple domains. What Success Looks Like Claims solutions are well designed, secure, scalable, compliant, and aligned with technology strategy and customer-focused outcomes. Architecture artefacts are clear, high quality, and provide delivery teams and stakeholders with the guidance needed to make informed decisions. Product owners, delivery teams, subject matter experts, Information Security, and Enterprise Architecture have confidence in the architecture direction and decisions. Solution designs support MVP delivery while enabling future phases and avoiding unnecessary rework. APIs, event-driven architecture, shared services, and integration approaches are governed consistently across Claims and adjacent domains. Architecture decisions are pragmatic, clearly communicated, and balance business value, regulatory obligations, technical quality, and delivery needs. Claims initiatives benefit from strong architectural oversight throughout design and delivery. Candidate Profile The successful candidate will be an experienced Solution Architect with strong technical architecture capability and practical knowledge of Claims platforms, cloud services, integration approaches, security patterns, and enterprise architecture practices. They will be comfortable operating in a complex delivery environment, producing clear architecture artefacts, engaging with technical and business stakeholders, and making pragmatic design decisions. This role is well suited to someone who can provide clear technical leadership, support delivery teams through ambiguity, and ensure solutions are designed with security, scalability, compliance, and customer outcomes in mind. Working arrangements: This is a remote role, with an expectation to attend the Ty Admiral Cardiff office once per month or as and when required. Admiral: Where You Can We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We're committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service. Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave. We're proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We're fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics. Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here. Disability Confident Leader As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we'll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process. If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please do email us or contact us on . This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.
Jul 14, 2026
Full time
hackajob is collaborating with Admiral Group Plc to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. As a Claims Solution Architect, you will be responsible for designing and governing end-to-end technical solutions across the Claims domain. The role will ensure that solutions are secure, scalable, compliant, performant, and aligned with digital strategy, hybrid cloud principles, architecture standards, and customer-focused delivery. You will provide solution architecture leadership across initiatives, working closely with product owners, delivery teams, subject matter experts, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, and wider stakeholders. The role will translate requirements into pragmatic architecture designs and provide architectural oversight throughout delivery, including MVP implementation and future extensibility. Key Responsibilities Lead solution architecture design for Claims initiatives, ensuring solutions are aligned to outcomes, customer needs, technology strategy, and regulatory expectations. Design and maintain solution outlines and architecture artefacts that support hybrid cloud strategy and delivery governance. Provide architectural leadership across the Claims domain, including solutions involving Guidewire ClaimCenter 10 and the wider Guidewire suite of systems. Translate requirements into secure, compliant, scalable, and performant technical architectures. Collaborate with product owners, delivery teams, subject matter experts, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, and wider stakeholders to shape and validate solution options. Govern the use of APIs, event-driven architecture, shared services, and integration patterns across Claims and adjacent domains. Provide architectural oversight during MVP delivery, ensuring solutions are fit for purpose while remaining scalable and extensible for future phases. Support delivery teams by clarifying architecture decisions, resolving design issues, and ensuring alignment to agreed architecture principles and patterns. Apply enterprise solution patterns and security patterns to ensure consistency, resilience, and compliance across solutions. Ensure architecture decisions consider the full end-to-end process and operational context. Produce high-quality architecture artefacts, including high-level designs and solution outlines, to support governance, delivery, and stakeholder understanding. Essential Skills and Experience Hands-on experience with Guidewire ClaimCenter or a similar Claims platform. Knowledge of Guidewire ClaimCenter 10 and the wider Guidewire suite of systems. Experience designing secure, scalable, and performant solution architectures. Knowledge of Azure services such as Blob Storage, API Management, Key Vault, AKS, Event Grid, Logic Apps, or comparable cloud services. Understanding of enterprise solution patterns and security patterns. Previous engineering experience, such as Java, C#, or other programming languages. Ability to produce high-quality architecture artefacts, including high-level designs and solution outlines. Ability to translate requirements into secure, compliant, and practical technical solutions. Experience supporting architecture governance and assurance throughout delivery. Experience designing solutions that support MVP delivery while allowing for future scalability and extensibility. Desired Skills and Experience Proven experience designing Claims solutions within the UK General Insurance sector. Strong understanding of Claims lifecycle processes, including FNOL, liability, repair, settlement, and fraud. Familiarity with regulatory frameworks including FCA, GDPR, and PRA, and their impact on Claims systems. Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to work effectively with Claims SMEs, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, product owners, delivery teams, and business stakeholders. Experience with cross-cloud architectures, particularly across Azure and GCP. Broader experience across adjacent insurance domains such as Policy, Digital, or shared services. Experience governing API-led and event-driven architectures across multiple domains. What Success Looks Like Claims solutions are well designed, secure, scalable, compliant, and aligned with technology strategy and customer-focused outcomes. Architecture artefacts are clear, high quality, and provide delivery teams and stakeholders with the guidance needed to make informed decisions. Product owners, delivery teams, subject matter experts, Information Security, and Enterprise Architecture have confidence in the architecture direction and decisions. Solution designs support MVP delivery while enabling future phases and avoiding unnecessary rework. APIs, event-driven architecture, shared services, and integration approaches are governed consistently across Claims and adjacent domains. Architecture decisions are pragmatic, clearly communicated, and balance business value, regulatory obligations, technical quality, and delivery needs. Claims initiatives benefit from strong architectural oversight throughout design and delivery. Candidate Profile The successful candidate will be an experienced Solution Architect with strong technical architecture capability and practical knowledge of Claims platforms, cloud services, integration approaches, security patterns, and enterprise architecture practices. They will be comfortable operating in a complex delivery environment, producing clear architecture artefacts, engaging with technical and business stakeholders, and making pragmatic design decisions. This role is well suited to someone who can provide clear technical leadership, support delivery teams through ambiguity, and ensure solutions are designed with security, scalability, compliance, and customer outcomes in mind. Working arrangements: This is a remote role, with an expectation to attend the Ty Admiral Cardiff office once per month or as and when required. Admiral: Where You Can We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We're committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service. Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave. We're proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We're fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics. Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here. Disability Confident Leader As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we'll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process. If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please do email us or contact us on . This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.
hackajob is collaborating with Admiral Group Plc to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. The Solution Architect will be responsible for shaping pragmatic, scalable and secure solution designs across public cloud services, system integration, and web and mobile application architecture. The role will focus on server-side architecture, integration patterns, and the design of solutions that support business outcomes while aligning with technology standards, delivery needs and architectural governance. Key Responsibilities Define and document solution architectures for web and mobile applications, with a particular focus on server-side architecture. Design solutions that make effective use of public cloud services and support scalable, secure and maintainable delivery. Shape integration approaches across systems, including synchronous and asynchronous integration architectures where appropriate. Work with stakeholders, engineering teams and delivery teams to translate business and technical requirements into clear solution designs. Provide architectural guidance throughout delivery, supporting design decisions, trade-offs and technical issue resolution. Contribute to architecture governance and assurance activities, ensuring solution designs align with agreed standards and principles. Identify technical risks, dependencies and constraints, and support pragmatic decision-making to enable successful delivery. Collaborate across technical and business teams to ensure solutions are well understood, deliverable and aligned to intended outcomes. Essential Skills and Experience Experience designing solutions using public cloud services. Strong understanding of system integration principles and patterns. Experience with web application architecture. Experience designing server-side architecture for web and mobile applications. Ability to translate business and technical requirements into clear, practical solution designs. Experience working with stakeholders and delivery teams to support solution delivery. Understanding of architectural governance, assurance and technical decision-making. Desired Skills and Experience Experience with GCP services. Experience with Azure services. Knowledge of Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM). Experience with synchronous integration architectures. Experience with asynchronous integration architectures. Broader experience across web and mobile application architecture. What Success Looks Like Solution designs are clear, well structured and aligned to business and technical requirements. Architecture decisions are pragmatic, understood by stakeholders and supportive of successful delivery. Public cloud, integration and server-side architecture choices are appropriate, scalable and maintainable. Delivery teams have the architectural guidance they need to progress confidently. Governance and assurance activities are supported with clear rationale, documented decisions and appropriate challenge. Technical risks, dependencies and trade-offs are identified early and managed effectively. Solutions demonstrate strong alignment between business needs, technology standards and delivery feasibility. Candidate Profile The successful candidate will be a capable Solution Architect with strong experience across public cloud, system integration and web application architecture. They will be comfortable working across business and technical stakeholders, able to explain complex architectural decisions clearly, and focused on designing practical solutions that can be delivered effectively. They will bring a collaborative approach, sound technical judgement and the ability to balance strategic architecture direction with delivery realities. Working arrangements This is a remote role, with an expectation to attend the Ty Admiral Cardiff office once per month or as and when required. Admiral: Where You Can We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We're committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service. Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave. We're proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We're fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics. Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here. Disability Confident Leader As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we'll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process. If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please do email us or contact us on . This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.
Jul 14, 2026
Full time
hackajob is collaborating with Admiral Group Plc to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. The Solution Architect will be responsible for shaping pragmatic, scalable and secure solution designs across public cloud services, system integration, and web and mobile application architecture. The role will focus on server-side architecture, integration patterns, and the design of solutions that support business outcomes while aligning with technology standards, delivery needs and architectural governance. Key Responsibilities Define and document solution architectures for web and mobile applications, with a particular focus on server-side architecture. Design solutions that make effective use of public cloud services and support scalable, secure and maintainable delivery. Shape integration approaches across systems, including synchronous and asynchronous integration architectures where appropriate. Work with stakeholders, engineering teams and delivery teams to translate business and technical requirements into clear solution designs. Provide architectural guidance throughout delivery, supporting design decisions, trade-offs and technical issue resolution. Contribute to architecture governance and assurance activities, ensuring solution designs align with agreed standards and principles. Identify technical risks, dependencies and constraints, and support pragmatic decision-making to enable successful delivery. Collaborate across technical and business teams to ensure solutions are well understood, deliverable and aligned to intended outcomes. Essential Skills and Experience Experience designing solutions using public cloud services. Strong understanding of system integration principles and patterns. Experience with web application architecture. Experience designing server-side architecture for web and mobile applications. Ability to translate business and technical requirements into clear, practical solution designs. Experience working with stakeholders and delivery teams to support solution delivery. Understanding of architectural governance, assurance and technical decision-making. Desired Skills and Experience Experience with GCP services. Experience with Azure services. Knowledge of Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM). Experience with synchronous integration architectures. Experience with asynchronous integration architectures. Broader experience across web and mobile application architecture. What Success Looks Like Solution designs are clear, well structured and aligned to business and technical requirements. Architecture decisions are pragmatic, understood by stakeholders and supportive of successful delivery. Public cloud, integration and server-side architecture choices are appropriate, scalable and maintainable. Delivery teams have the architectural guidance they need to progress confidently. Governance and assurance activities are supported with clear rationale, documented decisions and appropriate challenge. Technical risks, dependencies and trade-offs are identified early and managed effectively. Solutions demonstrate strong alignment between business needs, technology standards and delivery feasibility. Candidate Profile The successful candidate will be a capable Solution Architect with strong experience across public cloud, system integration and web application architecture. They will be comfortable working across business and technical stakeholders, able to explain complex architectural decisions clearly, and focused on designing practical solutions that can be delivered effectively. They will bring a collaborative approach, sound technical judgement and the ability to balance strategic architecture direction with delivery realities. Working arrangements This is a remote role, with an expectation to attend the Ty Admiral Cardiff office once per month or as and when required. Admiral: Where You Can We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We're committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service. Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave. We're proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We're fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics. Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here. Disability Confident Leader As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we'll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process. If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please do email us or contact us on . This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.
hackajob is collaborating with Admiral Group Plc to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Admiral is currently recruiting for a Pricing Manager within our Travel Insurance department. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to step into a key leadership role at a pivotal stage of growth. Our Travel business is expanding rapidly, pricing approaches are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and the team is growing both in size and expertise. This role follows a hybrid model, with a requirement to be in our Cardiff office once a week . At Admiral, Pricing has always been a fundamental cornerstone of our success. While the wider travel industry remains relatively simple in its pricing approach, often relying on basic tools and limited data, we have a unique opportunity to lead the way. By leveraging Admiral's group-wide pricing capabilities, we aim to build more advanced, data-driven pricing strategies and create a sustainable competitive advantage. We're looking for an ambitious and forward-thinking pricing leader who is passionate about challenging the status quo within the travel insurance space. You'll lead one of our key pricing pillars, managing a team of analysts while shaping rating structures, exploring new data sources, strengthening controls, and driving innovation across pricing. Key Responsibilities Lead and continuously enhance pricing and rating structures to improve performance Drive competitive advantage through smarter rate change management, data use and risk selection Identify and deliver strategic pricing opportunities to support sustainable growth Use modelling and market insights to inform pricing decisions and forecast impact Analyse large loss trends and embed insights into pricing strategy Ensure pricing decisions meet regulatory requirements, including fair pricing practices Oversee end-to-end rate changes, ensuring accurate implementation and strong governance Improve data quality and insight to support better decision-making Coordinate prioritisation, delivery and monitoring of pricing changes Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure alignment and effective delivery Lead, coach and develop a high-performing pricing team Experience & Skills Proven leadership experience within Insurance Pricing, demonstrated experience Strong communication and stakeholder management skills Ability to manage workload effectively for both yourself and your team, delivering high-quality outputs Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment Strong analytical and numerical skills with excellent attention to detail Experience building business cases and evaluating pricing strategies Degree (2:1 or above) in a numerate subject (e.g. Mathematics, Engineering, Economics) Experience with programming tools such as SAS, SQL, BigQuery or similar (training provided) Self-motivated with a proactive, solutions-focused mindset Essential Criteria Proven experience Insurance Pricing, including development and optimisation of pricing or rating structures Proven leadership experience, managing and developing pricing teams Strong analytical capability, with experience using data, modelling and insight to drive pricing decisions Experience with pricing tools and programming languages (e.g. SAS, SQL, BigQuery) and a numerate degree (2:1 or above) This is not an exhaustive list, but it highlights the key responsibilities and what success in this role looks like. Admiral: Where You Can We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We're committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service. Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave. We're proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We're fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics. Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here. Disability Confident Leader As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we'll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process. If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please do email or contact us on . This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.
Jul 14, 2026
Full time
hackajob is collaborating with Admiral Group Plc to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Admiral is currently recruiting for a Pricing Manager within our Travel Insurance department. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to step into a key leadership role at a pivotal stage of growth. Our Travel business is expanding rapidly, pricing approaches are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and the team is growing both in size and expertise. This role follows a hybrid model, with a requirement to be in our Cardiff office once a week . At Admiral, Pricing has always been a fundamental cornerstone of our success. While the wider travel industry remains relatively simple in its pricing approach, often relying on basic tools and limited data, we have a unique opportunity to lead the way. By leveraging Admiral's group-wide pricing capabilities, we aim to build more advanced, data-driven pricing strategies and create a sustainable competitive advantage. We're looking for an ambitious and forward-thinking pricing leader who is passionate about challenging the status quo within the travel insurance space. You'll lead one of our key pricing pillars, managing a team of analysts while shaping rating structures, exploring new data sources, strengthening controls, and driving innovation across pricing. Key Responsibilities Lead and continuously enhance pricing and rating structures to improve performance Drive competitive advantage through smarter rate change management, data use and risk selection Identify and deliver strategic pricing opportunities to support sustainable growth Use modelling and market insights to inform pricing decisions and forecast impact Analyse large loss trends and embed insights into pricing strategy Ensure pricing decisions meet regulatory requirements, including fair pricing practices Oversee end-to-end rate changes, ensuring accurate implementation and strong governance Improve data quality and insight to support better decision-making Coordinate prioritisation, delivery and monitoring of pricing changes Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure alignment and effective delivery Lead, coach and develop a high-performing pricing team Experience & Skills Proven leadership experience within Insurance Pricing, demonstrated experience Strong communication and stakeholder management skills Ability to manage workload effectively for both yourself and your team, delivering high-quality outputs Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment Strong analytical and numerical skills with excellent attention to detail Experience building business cases and evaluating pricing strategies Degree (2:1 or above) in a numerate subject (e.g. Mathematics, Engineering, Economics) Experience with programming tools such as SAS, SQL, BigQuery or similar (training provided) Self-motivated with a proactive, solutions-focused mindset Essential Criteria Proven experience Insurance Pricing, including development and optimisation of pricing or rating structures Proven leadership experience, managing and developing pricing teams Strong analytical capability, with experience using data, modelling and insight to drive pricing decisions Experience with pricing tools and programming languages (e.g. SAS, SQL, BigQuery) and a numerate degree (2:1 or above) This is not an exhaustive list, but it highlights the key responsibilities and what success in this role looks like. Admiral: Where You Can We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We're committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service. Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave. We're proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We're fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics. Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here. Disability Confident Leader As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we'll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process. If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please do email or contact us on . This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.