Senior Application Architect

Senior Application Architect – Insurance Claims

This role will be guiding strategy and development of global Claims digital and non-digital solutions which leverage reusable platforms and frameworks, using architecture best practices and strategy. Critical to this role is an in-depth understanding of modern Application Architecture, including responsive UI’s, API’s, microservices and cloud architecture. A primary responsibility for this role will be to leverage the global claims architecture and practice for the regions. Familiarity with claims processing or with the P&C or financial services industry is preferred.

Primary Job Responsibilities

· Provide end-to-end Application Architecture strategy and design for digital and non-digital claims solutions.

· Engage with claims business stakeholders and senior claims IT leadership to understand COG and regional solution and platform needs to formulate strategies and solutions.

· Develop working relationships with regional and country-level architects and senior technical staff to enable collaboration on regional claim solutions.

· Assist the global Claims Chief Architect in building out an effective solution architecture practice for COG practice, including talent acquisition and retention.

· Develop solution designs that align with architecture direction and regional business needs, incorporating appropriate input from various platform specialists and domain experts.

· Ensure alignment of claims solutions with Claims Platform reference architectures.

· Deliver scalable and flexible solution designs that are reusable and reuse shared services.

· Engage and enable relevant infrastructure, security, compliance and architecture governance processes.

· Communicate designs to other architects, developers, tech leads and Agile teams, assist in estimation of effort, and conduct design reviews.

Technical Experience and Competencies

· Demonstrated experience designing extensible and reusable solutions

· Up to date knowledge and experience of industry best practices, technologies and frameworks needed to deliver modern digital Application Architecture such as API’s microservices, Cloud and hybrid platforms, web-based applications, business process/rules orchestration and application integration.

· Experience designing scalable platforms using concepts such as clustering, load balancing, and fault tolerance.

· Experience with applying architecture analyses to evaluate alternative options based on their impacts.

· Experience with building and retaining architecture or technical teams is a strong plus.

· Experience with using DevOps, continuous integration and automated testing with related tooling for delivery.

· Expertise with REST JSON-based API’s, microservices, and cloud platform capabilities. Knowledge of Azure serverless components, Angular, (C#) and/or Java.

· Experience with claims processing or systems or alternatively with the P&C insurance industry is a strong plus.

· Good communication and leadership.

· Must be able to provide hands-on guidance and feedback to technical resources (including contract resources) as well as senior business and IT leadership.

· Demonstrate strong ability to work in a team environment.

· Ensure documentation is captured appropriately and is easily accessible to the team members

Recommended Qualifications

· Bachelor's Degree (required)

· 3 - 5 years Application Architecture experience (Insurance P&C experience is a plus)

· Ability to execute and prioritize a number of tasks simultaneously

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills

· Strong interpersonal/relationship management skills