Dublin, Ireland
4 days ago
Lead Solutions Architect

We are seeking a talented individual to join our Solutions Architecture team at Marsh Tech.

This role will be based in Dublin. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

You will join our global Architecture, Technology and Engineering hub as the first, Dublin based, Lead Solutions Architect, leading a team of geographically distributed Solution Architects, embedded in our delivery Pods & Squads, delivering key Global projects, shaping strategic technology capability for Marsh.

Collaborating with like-minded, innovative colleagues across geographies including UK, US Latin America, AsiaPac & India - together you will help define, implement and manage application design patterns, standards and approaches, establishing and evolving a refreshed Solution Architecture practice within Marsh Tech Architecture & Engineering.

Share our ambition to transform the way in which we design and deliver technology products and solutions to our business customers, enabling new offerings.

We will count on you to:

Collaborate with your colleagues in the broader Marsh and MMC Tech organisations to define and implement a set of standard design patterns and approaches that support our strategic goals including delivering with speed and agility; and reducing the unit cost of technologyBe innovative in your thinking and use your expertise to influence the MMC technology roadmapTake your architectural designs through our on boarding processes to ensure they meet MMC’s standards and conventionsLead and participate in architecture reviews as part of MMC’s Architecture Assurance processHelp us build a geographically distributed team of highly capable Solution Architects, who will be embedded with our delivery teams (in a scaled Agile Pods & Squads model), and who can drive the adoption and implementation of our standard design patterns through hands-on technical leadership, guidance and empowerment for engineering teamsLead the Solution Architecture team to achieve our goals around delivery with agility, reduced unit cost through re-use, etcBe an involved member in our technology community, championing the latest technologies and trends within MMC and the wider industry Provide thought leadership around how technology can be deployed in new and innovative ways to provide a source of competitive advantage to Marsh.Work with other technology groups and stakeholders across MMC Tech , sharing your knowledge, successes and learnings with your colleagues, to ensure alignment with companywide tooling, standards and processes.

What you need to have: 

Experience in building and leading highly capable distributed technology teams, ideally including experience working with teams based in IndiaDeep experience of modern application architectures, and in environments and cultures focused on achieving highly robust and performant software products at a reduced unit cost, with high degree of re-useA broad and deep range of experience in the tech industry; across technologies and business problems.Excellent knowledge across a range of modern technology tools, languages and processes, to include, Angular/React, Camunda, Kafka, MongoDB, Node.js, Open AI API, REST API, Apigee Hybrid, Kubernetes.

What makes you stand out?

Your experience with large scale, complex, business critical globally deployed solutions. You bring real world experience of e.g. site reliability engineering (SRE) practices, etcYou can rapidly relate business (financial services or insurance) concepts, to technical and system design concepts that can support and deliver improved business outcomesYour ability to simplify complexity. You can rapidly grasp complex technical and business problems; identify and design elegant and simple solutions; and communicate the problem and the solution succinctly and clearly to a range of audiences.

Why join our team:

We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $23 billion and more than 85,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marshmclennan.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable support to any candidate with a disability/health condition to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. We welcome candidates to contact us at reasonableaccommodations@mmc.com to discuss any specific needs.

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Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marshmclennan.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable support to any candidate with a disability/health condition to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. We welcome candidates to contact us at reasonableaccommodations@mmc.com to discuss any specific needs.

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.

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