Technical Architect
Bangalore, India
As we develop an enterprise-wide Digital Factory strategy to transform our business, we are seeking an Insurance Technical Architect with an outstanding Guidewire Cloud background. The Insurance Technical Architect is a hands-on, execution-focused role helping translate the Insurance strategy, define architecture, and deliver the solution. In this role, you will have an understanding of our insurance systems and processes and function as an insurance architecture subject matter expert for our various projects. Your expertise in Insurance products will help guide and reimagine solutions for US, APAC, Europe and Lloyd’s Insurance. The position is responsible for providing I.T. leadership and solutions for major transformation programs. A major focus for this role is to provide technical leadership in AXA XL Insurance application changes and data flow and oversee the delivery of technical changes. Will need to work collaboratively with vendor resources. An ideal candidate for this role is expected to have significant hands-on technical expertise in Guidewire.
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What will your essential responsibilities include?
·Design and technical delivery of products.
·Producing quality, secure, scalable, high-performing, and resilient designs for new or improved services.
·Led the systems analysts, developers, and testers in sympathetic change to the applications.
·Partner with engineers, DevOps engineers, administrators, and other roles responsible for implementing solutions on Azure to ensure leveraging sound infrastructure solution options.
·Accountable for leading technical project delivery within the applications landscape.
·Provide DevOps standards across value streams, design CI/CD pipelines, and implement automated deployment and gating mechanisms.
·Handle multiple tech initiatives in Agile delivery models.
·Support Product Owners to develop and maintain the Product Roadmap.
·Define and maintain development standards such as system and data design, coding, etc.
·Maintain a capacity plan with historical performance metrics, a future forecast, and a capacity model to ensure services and infrastructure deliver performance and growth targets in a cost-effective and proactive manner.
·Manage architecture exceptions for the application, including identifying, documenting, taking through an exception approval process, and remediation where and when possible.
·Monitor application services to ensure performance consistently meets non-functional requirements (response time, security, etc.).
·Leads the DevOps team and developers in targeted use of DevOps for their application platform assets.
You will report to Release Train Engineer – Middle Markets (Delivery Lead).
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We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
Required Skills and Abilities:
·Significant hands-on experience in Guidewire, ideally with policy admin implementation (GW Policy Center) experience.
·Proficiency with working in the Agile delivery model.
·Experience with MS Azure preferred.
·Prior work experience in P&C insurance field.
·Uphold technical integrity of internal assets at the logical and physical level, ensuring designs and changes are done based on an effective architectural foundation.
·Experience leading and mentoring development and architecture professionals.
·Lead the analysts and developers in sympathetic technical change to the product.