Responsibilities
* Develop application and system roadmaps associated with applications transformation and modernization.
* Develop flexible, adaptable, modular, and reusable solution designs in collaboration with business stakeholders and the IT development teams while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
* Support the definition of high-level operational models, and prepare business cases in alignment with the IT security and quality guidelines. Present business cases, for operational and tactical technical initiatives, for approval, funding and prioritization.
* Uphold appropriate solution architecture governance processes and tools while maintaining focus on design patterns and technology standards.
* Be the accountable individual for the finalization, acceptance and approval of solutions you architected, by relevant stakeholders.
* Act as an enabler of Agile and DevSecOps practices in collaboration with product delivery and operation support teams.
* Explore, evaluate and promote technology innovation within the organization.
* Review high-level designs with technical leads and developers, review code, enforce best practices, assist with debugging critical issues, and enforce performance testing to deliver efficient and performant applications.
* Be the responsible individual to identify technology risk(s) of initiatives you are leading as an architect and develop corresponding mitigation strategies.
* Stay current on, evaluate and recommend the use of cutting-edge technologies and methods, considering their technical pros and limitations. Leverage market and technology trends to identify the business benefits of alternative technical solutions.
* Support the requirements gathering process to right-size initiatives and solution strategy.
* Collaborate with development teams and assist with the application of Agile and DevSecOps techniques within architecture and designs.
* Create comprehensive solution architecture specification documents and other required documentation.
* Help maintain a business unit-level repository of architecture assets (platforms, services, APIs, technical dept, etc.) and promote reuse across the organization.
Knowledge And Skills
* Experience in the insurance (e.g. UW, Claim, Policy Issuance) ideally with Guidewire.
* Exceptional analytical and critical thinking skills, with thorough attention to detail.
* Excellent planning, documentation and problem-solving skills.
* Knowledge of design and implementation of solutions and systems using custom built and CoTS / MoTS applications hosted in the cloud and on-prem.
* Experience designing solutions including policy administration systems, ERP and customer / agent-facing portals.
* Substantial knowledge of the system development life cycle and the scaled agile methodology. Certifications preferred.
* TOGAF certification is a significant plus.
* Demonstrate competence to work at the highest technical level of all phases of system architecture design, using state of the art rule/framework-based architecture, object-oriented component analysis and proficiency in web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture and enterprise application architecture.
* Ability to guide and mentor development teams on sound design and coding principles, best practices in API based, Micro Services and Cloud technologies.
* Experience in integration architectures from Service Bus to API mediation and event bus models.
* Strong knowledge of contemporary technologies and business trends that allows architecture to solve problems in a creative and cost‑effective manner.
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