Integration Architect

Senior Bureau Messaging Integration Architect

£95,000 - £105,000 plus bonus and benefits

City of London

Hybrid

An experienced Enterprise Integration Architect with deep London Market insurance knowledge who can design, govern, and modernise complex integrations between insurance systems, Lloyd's platforms, brokers, bureaus, and partners while ensuring security, resilience, and scalability.

My client is looking for someone who can design and lead the messaging technology that allows the exchange of data securely and reliably with external organisations, particularly within the London Market and Lloyd's insurance ecosystem.

The ideal candidate:

• an experienced integration architect with 8+ years designing enterprise integration solutions.
• Lloyd's, bureau messaging, bordereaux, delegated authority, and insurance operations.
• Can design complex integration architectures connecting underwriting, claims, finance, reporting, and external partners.
• Has strong technical expertise in APIs, messaging, event-driven systems, cloud integration, and middleware platforms like Azure Integration Services, MuleSoft, Kafka, IBM MQ or Boomi.
• Understands insurance data standards, particularly ACORD messaging and London Market standards.
• Can balance business and technology, translating business requirements into practical, scalable technical solutions.
• Leads architectural governance, ensuring projects follow enterprise standards and best practices.
• Builds secure and resilient systems, considering security, compliance, auditability, disaster recovery, and operational support from the outset.
• Works well with stakeholders, collaborating with business teams, developers, vendors, security specialists, and senior leadership.
• Looks for continuous improvement, simplifying integrations, reducing technical debt, and promoting reusable solutions.

The key technical skills:

• Enterprise Integration Architecture
• API Design
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Message-Based Integration
• Cloud & Hybrid Integration
• Data Mapping & Transformation
• XML, JSON
• REST & SOAP APIs
• Kafka
• IBM MQ
• Azure Integration Services
• MuleSoft or Boomi
• Managed File Transfer (MFT)
• TOGAF (or similar architecture framework)
• Security & Governance
• Integration Standards

The key business knowledge:

• London Market Insurance
• Lloyd's
• Bureau Messaging
• Delegated Authority
• Bordereaux
• Underwriting
• Claims
• Finance Processes
• ACORD Standards

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