It’s an exciting time to join the Technology team here at AXA Health, with significant investment planned in all UK & I businesses to transform, deliver new digital services to our customers, streamline, and automate our business processes, while ensuring the continued stability and performance of our legacy platforms. We’re looking for an experienced Solution Architect to join our architecture and analysis function and help us make our goals a reality.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work across a broad range of initiatives and technologies, collaborating with enterprise architects, solution architects, product owners, and engineers in a mixture of more traditional and agile delivery teams. Our change portfolio includes initiatives to improve legacy platforms (predominantly Azure-hosted .NET), implement new SaaS/PaaS technology solutions, and launch a broader digital transformation program introducing a new strategic Salesforce‑centred digital platform.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You’ll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) towards the end of 2025. The “away from home” days may involve attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. We’re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

What you'll be doing

• Design, define and communicate complex IT solutions across a range of technology platforms
• Evaluate solution options, integration patterns and recommend the right one for a given situation, ensuring compliance with company standards
• Assess new technology solutions to meet business requirements
• Ensure application performance, quality, and responsiveness through solution design
• Work within both agile programs and teams, adhering to Scrum or Kanban principles, and traditional waterfall style projects
• Contribute to the architecture runway and target architecture
• Operate in a multi‑vendor environment, providing direction and support to delivery teams
• Support continuous improvement initiatives within the team and across the IT department
• Collaborate with security and data protection officers to ensure solutions are secure by design and compliant

What you’ll bring

• Experience and knowledge working as a solution architect, or senior engineer with the desire, aptitude and ability to move into solution architecture
• Proven experience across a range of technologies including Azure, .NET, React, Salesforce, SaaS and PaaS solutions
• Deep understanding of frontend digital architecture, design patterns, and interaction design principles
• Good knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and technologies
• Experience of API architectural design standards including RESTful APIs and Open API
• Hands‑on experience integrating digital solutions with Salesforce and Salesforce Marketing Cloud
• Understanding of current and emerging technologies and their potential to deliver business benefits
• Influencing and negotiation skills, managing effective stakeholder relationships
• Ability to translate business strategy into technical solutions and business requirements into technical design

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer

• Competitive annual salary dependent on experience
• Annual company & performance‑based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10x annual salary)
• Private health cover
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts

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We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and don’t discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long‑term condition or disability and require adjustments during the application or interview process, we’re proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge. For our support, please send an email to lauren.standen@axa-insurance.co.uk.

At AXA Health, we’re passionate about helping our members to put their health first, whether that’s individuals, families, small businesses, or huge corporates. From fast access to diagnosis and treatment, to guidance and tools that can help them manage their health every day, not just when there’s a problem, our members can be confident we’ll guide them every step of the way.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom