Tech Stack
AWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformNoSQL
About the role
- Provide design and delivery expertise for cloud-based insurance solutions in a modern, enterprise environment
- Work directly with clients to assess needs, design tailored solutions, and support business initiatives aligned to roadmaps
- Engage with clients to understand requirements and advise on appropriate solution architectures
- Collaborate with Product Managers to ensure alignment between client needs and solution design
- Work closely with Delivery Managers to oversee the architecture approach during solution deployment
- Explore possibilities and creative alternatives to identify the most effective solutions
- Ensure designed solutions are implemented according to client expectations and company standards
- Assist in identifying, specifying, and selecting off-the-shelf components to meet client needs
- Provide ongoing support and guidance to clients throughout the implementation process
- Maintain awareness of industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve solutions
- Emphasize solutions leveraging AWS and/or GCP, open-source, PaaS, and SaaS components
Requirements
- At least 6 years of professional experience in solution architecture design and delivery roles in the insurance vertical with exposure to multiple lines of business
- Experienced in delivering cloud-based technology product solutions in an enterprise environment
- Ability to assist in defining and socialising a product/enterprise roadmap
- Ability to translate client requirements into actionable steps and solution architectures
- Understand business architecture models & patterns
- Experience designing and implementing innovative and creative solutions to business problems
- Ability to balance creative ("outside the box") and pragmatic ("in the box") approaches
- Understand optimum approaches for cloud-based applications with high availability and scalability
- Experienced in designing solutions in Relational DB and noSQL environments
- Experienced in designing for API & Micro-services centric environments
- Demonstrated capability to self-learn new technology trends and approaches
- Ideally has experience or understanding of the benefits of low-code platforms
- Experience of multiple development languages & various DB engines is advantageous
- Exposure to authentication and authorisation concepts (SSO, SAML integration, identity federation etc)
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong analytical skills & ability to understand and collect business requirements from corporate clients
- Strong ability to build value propositions, solution documents, and business cases for corporate clients
- Relationship management experience with corporate clients
- Excellent organisational, interpersonal & communication skills and an ability to engage audiences
- Excellent decision-making and judgment skills
- Understanding of insurance business processes across all areas and at least two lines of business
- Certification in one architecture discipline (TOGAF, Zachman, etc.) is a distinct advantage
- Certification in one cloud environment is a distinct advantage with broad knowledge and experience of the cloud platform’s capabilities
- High proficiency in working in English as primary language