Job details
Location: Birmingham, London, Manchester
Capability: Advisory
Experience Level: Senior Manager
Type: Full Time
Service Line: Technology & Data
Contract type: Permanent
Job Description
KPMG’s Insurance Enterprise Architecture practice is a leading independent advisor for Technology Architecture professional services. We help CIOs, CTOs and their management teams transform their businesses and IT services. Our clients have to develop robust and executable strategies that have to account for the continual development of technology, with current focus being on Digital disruption, exploitation of cloud technologies and modernising the IT estate.
We help these organisations understand and evaluate their strategic options, build business cases, design the roadmaps and then continually optimise. We have deeply skilled architects to support this journey and make the path robust throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
We are growing our Insurance Architecture team to respond to the increasing demand and in particular seeking technologists with architecture backgrounds and experience in Enterprise Architecture within the Insurance sector. Within the Insurance Architecture team, we work across all areas of the sector, from General Insurance, to Health Insurance, Life and all of London Markets, including Carriers, Brokers, Underwriting, MGA’s, as well as all aspects of the value chain. We look to simplify streamline end-to end architecture, reduce legacy, ensure appropriate governance is in place, as well as advise on new and innovative technology to enable our clients to grow their business and differentiate themselves in the market.
The Role

• Engagement Delivery - leading the technical delivery of complex programmes and large projects, including planning, managing and executing the delivery of engagements or projects, including responsibility for the review and quality assurance of deliverables
• Technical Leadership – ‘hands on’ leading the delivery of high quality strategy and technology architecture work throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Excellent communication skills and client-facing stakeholder management experience.
• Industry awareness of enterprise architecture methodologies, e.g. TOGAF, approaches to delivering enterprise solutions and market trends.
• Experience of applying architecture principles to application, data and / or infrastructure components as part of an overall enterprise architecture.
• Leading and contributing to proposals and sales activity.
• Contributing to the development of a vibrant technology capability.
  

The Person

• Senior IT Architect with a strong track record of defining and delivering IT Architectures in a complex environment
• Exceptional technical delivery skills for large scale project and programme management
• Deep hands-on technical experience, across a combination of package and bespoke system implementation
• Knowledge of the Insurance sector in one or more areas; General Insurance, Health, Life, London Markets (Carriers, Brokers, Underwriting, Lloyds, MGA’s)
• Significant experience of enterprise architecture and technology in a financial services sector.
• High energy levels, coupled with a desire to deliver to a high standard in a suitable timeframe
• Practical experience in large scale, enterprise wide, complex transformations providing the technical leadership throughout the life cycle.
• Experience of using EA tooling
  

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We offer part time roles with flexible working arrangements which could include, annualised hours, early or late starts to fit around other commitments, shorter working days etc. We are happy to discuss your own requirements and our range of flexible working arrangements in more detail, should that be of interest and, as part of the recruitment process, we can put you in touch with people who work flexibly. KPMG are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity employer and we seek to attract and retain the best people from the widest possible talent pool. As a member of the Business Disability Forum we\'re committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the Recruitment Process.
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