Solution Architect

JOB TITLE: Solution Architect 

LOCATION(S): Leeds 

HOURS:  Full time 

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above location.

About this opportunity  

The Group is at a pivotal stage in delivering against its strategy; becoming increasingly proactive, nimble, and efficient is key to ensuring we make good decisions to maintain what differentiates us in the market. The Risk strategy, enabled by the Prudential & Analytics Platform, is key to creating this shift for the Group. We're passionate about building a collaborative, empowered, inclusive and successful team who can connect with this purpose and deliver for our customers. 

Prudential & Analytics (P&A) is on an exciting journey and there is no better a time to join us. The investments we are making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects; fresh possibilities have provided new ways for our people to work, learn and thrive. 

Currently embarking on a journey to simplify and redefine the data and technology landscape. And we need to deliver a Data & Analytics platform which allows us to deploy data products and advanced analytical (including Machine Learning) capabilities to the benefit of all our customers. You can help shape this future. 

You will work directly with our Engineering Lead/Product owner and the Enterprise and Solution architecture communities to shape and define the Target Solution Architecture for the Analytics Lab within the Prudential and Analytics Platform. Once agreed, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinning our Platform teams 

You will act as technology enthusiast, bringing to bear your experience and your enthusiasm to help build the modern data-led organisation. 

About us  

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. 

What you'll need 

• Story-telling skills to describe our Data Architecture and get agreement to achieve it. 

• Relationship and stakeholders skills to energise our product and engineering communities.

• Practical experience required to define the data patterns, standards and practices we will use to guide our organisation. 

• Knowledge to be able to talk to and understand our customers, reaching solutions that meet their needs. 

And any experience of these would be really useful 

• Practical experience of designing and building cloud-based data platforms at scale. You will know and understand the benefits and trade-offs of the various approaches to building data platforms. 

• Understanding of data engineering landscape and with this, a working knowledge of data pipelines and data mesh principles. You may have come from an engineering background in this space; although this is not essential .

• Working in Financial Services on Regulatory Risk deliveries. 

About working for us 

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. 

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. 

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. 

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. 

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. 

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: 

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15% 

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance 

• Share schemes including free shares 

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top 

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies 

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.