Underwriting Platform Architect

Skills

The Underwriting Platform Architect will be responsible for the architecture design performance build deployment and support of core insurance platforms for organization built on Duck Creek Technology or other approved underwriting platforms. A suitable candidate is a successful experienced and accomplished technology leader with significant hands-on experience in cross platform design and has a deep passion for technology and architecture. This role will be required to plan manage monitor as well as influence differentiate and guide both business and technologies teams across multiple divisions of organization through the various phase of the SDLC. The candidate is expected to actively collaborate with the business business architects and BA’s along with development teams test teams Enterprise Architects Information Security Data & Analytics Digital Technology and other shared services teams to build cutting edge underwriting and policy admin platforms which push the norms/boundaries of Duck Creek platform all with a cloud first mentality.

Description

Responsible for architecture & design of products on Duck Creek Policy or another underwriting platform including design of inheritance models, data models, common capabilities, and integrations.
Owns underwriting platform solutions and designs/develops technology strategy/patterns/frameworks to deliver those solutions effectively and efficiently while maximizing reuse.
Act as a broker between divergent business and IT teams to bring them together, share knowledge, solve problems, design common reusable assets and maximize the use of existing capabilities and frameworks.
Work closely with project management and delivery leads to identify key activities and owners while ensuring alignment and feasibility of all planned deliverables and related dependencies and include all optimization feedback
Build and maintain relationships with our business and IT stakeholders across the enterprise while providing support, updates, and issue resolutions for their respective platforms.
Support infrastructure teams in build out, availability, performance, reliability and ensure that all non-functional system requirements will be met.
Stays on top of Duck Creek Technology platform and other approved underwriting platforms as well as industry trends including Digital Transformation, InsureTech, AI/Machine Learning etc

Responsibilities

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or another related field.
• At least 12 years of experience as a Solution Architect, leading technical teams with strong software engineering background
• Minimum 10 years of industry experience in system development and implementation preferably in insurance or financial services industry.
• At least 7 years of experience in insurance technology projects/programs
• At least 7 years of experience with Duck Creek Policy Platform
• At least 7 years of experience in engineering, designing and implementing large & complex system & application architectures
• At least 5 years of experience in performance engineering & optimization of distributed systems in API based architectures
• At least 5 years of experience leading systems integration projects with many internal and external interfaces
• At least 5-10 years of hands on experience in technology stack such as Microsoft.Net, Java, ASP.NET, IIS, BizTalk, MQ, SQL Server, HTML, XML, XPATH, JSON, CSS, XSLT etc.
• Knowledge of message bus technologies (Kafka preferred, or MQ, Amazon SQS, etc.)
• Knowledge of various cloud design patterns and common security patterns (Azure preferred)
• Hands on knowledge of Duck Creek Policy, native API layer, Anywhere API, Duck Creek Author and building manuscripts, the Duck Creek Express UI, platform configuration files, support/debug tooling, and large schedule performance enhancing Duck platform features
• Superior communication skills and ability to interact with business and IT resources at all levels
• Experience with systems integration to third parties, internal systems, and downstream systems as well exposure of products and services to external partners or risk aggregators.
• Good knowledge of Data & Analytics technologies such as Data Lakes, Business Intelligence Tools, Predictive Models, 3rd Party Data.
• Good knowledge of Microservices & API Mgmt., Java Script Frameworks such as Angular, Cloud Platforms such as Microsoft Azure is preferred.
• Experience with AGILE methodology