Solution Architect (Application Architecture) | Camunda + Kafka
A leading Global Solutions & Services provider to the Insurance market is looking for a seasoned Solution Architect to partner closely with Product Leadership and shape complex, enterprise-grade solutions across multiple delivery towers.
If you thrive on turning business outcomes into robust, scalable architectures—and you’re hands-on enough to get into the detail when needed—this one’s for you.
What you’ll be doing
* Owning solution design across multi-tower / multi-service initiatives, from discovery through delivery.
* Leading customer discovery to understand operational processes, pain points and desired outcomes—then translating that into pragmatic designs aligned to product capability and roadmap.
* Planning build activities with stakeholders, breaking requirements into deliverable features/modules for engineering teams.
* Ensuring engineering best practice: BDD focus, code quality, unit testing, performance benchmarking and troubleshooting.
* Bringing industry best practices into design and delivery, with occasional involvement in pre-sales (demos/proposals).
Essential skills (what we need you to bring)
✅ Camunda BPM experience
✅ Kafka + strong understanding of Kafka architecture
* Experience of hands-on enterprise software engineering (design + coding).
* Strong Java 8+ / J2EE, Gradle/Maven, Spring Boot/Security.
* OO design + data modelling with UML; strong grasp of functional & non-functional architecture constraints. [
* Databases: Postgres / Oracle / MySQL / DB2 + JDBC + ORM tooling.
* Tooling: Git/GitHub/BitBucket, CI/CD (e.g., TeamCity/Jenkins), JUnit 5.
* API-first mindset with OpenAPI (OAS); security exposure to OIDC and OAuth2.
* Comfortable working in Agile environments; familiarity with coding assistant tools / GenAI / agentic approaches.
Desirable (nice to have)
* Insurance domain knowledge and/or ACORD standards exposure.
* Integration tooling such as Apache Camel; ESB/EAI; API gateway/management platforms.
* Cloud: Azure/AWS/GCP; containers and DevOps practices (Kubernetes/Docker).
* App servers (Tomcat/JBoss/WebSphere) and observability (Elastic/Logstash/Kibana).
* Consulting-style stakeholder engagement and presentation skills.
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