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Sompo has a unique opportunity for a a Senior Bureau Messaging Integration Architect in our IT team.
This role will play a key part in shaping secure, scalable, and resilient integration architecture across underwriting, claims, bordereaux, finance, and operational data flows. The successful candidate will work closely with business and technology teams to support market-facing change and ensure alignment with enterprise standards and regulatory expectations.
Our business, your impact, our opportunity:
What you’ll be doing:
- Define and maintain target architecture for bureau messaging and external market integrations.
- Design end-to-end integration solutions across underwriting, claims, finance, delegated authority, and reporting processes.
- Establish and govern integration standards, patterns, and design principles.
- Provide architectural oversight and design assurance across projects and programmes.
- Support connectivity with London Market and Lloyd’s platforms, bureaus, brokers, cover holders, and service providers.
- Ensure effective message routing, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and exception handling.
- Embed security, resilience, operational support, and audit requirements into integration designs.
- Collaborate with business, delivery, data, security, and vendor teams to translate requirements into practical architecture solutions.
- Identify opportunities to simplify the integration landscape, improve reuse, and reduce technical debt.
What you’ll bring:
- 8+ years’ experience in integration architecture or solution architecture.
- 8+ years’ experience within the London Market, Lloyd’s, or specialty insurance sector.
- Experience designing integrations between core insurance systems and external market participants or bureau platforms.
- Strong knowledge of integration patterns, including message-based, API-led, event-driven, batch, and file-based integration.
- Understanding of data mapping, transformation, validation, and reconciliation.
- Knowledge of security, resilience, and governance requirements for external system integrations.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Familiarity with ACORD and London Market messaging or bordereaux standards.
- Experience with delegated authority or Lloyd’s ecosystem platforms.
- Experience with tools such as Azure Integration Services, MuleSoft, Boomi, IBM MQ, Kafka, REST/SOAP, XML, JSON, and managed file transfer solutions.
- Knowledge of cloud and hybrid integration architecture.
- TOGAF or similar architecture framework knowledge.
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Relevant architecture, cloud, or integration certifications desirable.
At Sompo, we recognize that the talent, skills, and commitment of our employees drive our success. This is why we offer competitive, high-quality compensation and benefit programs to eligible employees.
Our compensation program is built on a foundation that promotes a pay-for-performance culture, resulting in higher incentive awards, on average, when the Company does well and lower incentive awards when the Company underperforms. The total compensation opportunity for all regular, full-time employees is a combination of base salary and incentives that gets adjusted upfront based on overall Company performance with final awards based on individual performance.
We continuously evaluate and update our benefit programs to ensure that our plans remain competitive and meet the needs of our employees and their dependents.
Below is a summary of some of the benefits we offer, which may vary depending on the country:
- Health & Wellness Benefits
- Retirement & Savings Plans
- Global Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Tuition Reimbursement & Professional Qualification benefits
Who we are and what we stand for:
At Sompo, our shared purpose is to create meaningful value for clients, communities, and each other. We strive to foster a workplace where everyone feels respected, included, and empowered to excel. As a global organization, we embrace diversity and champion equal opportunity. Guided by our core values—Accountability, Agility, Collaboration, Development, and Integrity—we build trust and support one another to achieve our goals worldwide. Life at Sompo page
Our values come to life in how we hire and grow talent. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and organizational need, and we strive to ensure equitable access to opportunities so everyone can do their best work. If you need an accommodation for any part of the application process, please contact the recruiter in charge.
