Senior Solution Architect (Insurance Underwriting)

Blue Rock Consulting

Morristown, NJ

Full-Time

Job Description

Senior Solution Architect – Insurance

Americas Pre-Bind & Underwriting

Stamford/ Hartford CT, Morristown NJ, Exton PA, USA (Hybrid role)

NOTE:

This role will support our Middle Market business with their policy and billing implementation with Guidewire. It would be a big plus if you can find someone with strong Underwriting Architecture experience along with what I noted. The candidate has to really understand what the Underwriters do and how to support them from an Architecture perspective and have proven working experience.

Senior Solution Architect – Insurance

Americas Pre-Bind & Underwriting

Stamford/ Hartford CT, Morristown NJ, Exton PA, USA

As we develop an enterprise-wide Insurance strategy to transform our business, we are seeking an Insurance Solutions Architect. The Insurance Solutions 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 Americas: Submission, Rate, Quote, Bind, Policy Administration, Servicing and Underwriting processes.

What will your essential responsibilities include?

Understanding of existing architecture
Understand user requirements (desired output & outcome) and existing environments (current state), and translate these into an architecture and road map
Collaborate with customers, analysts, other architects, modelers, developers, testers, partners and vendors
Guide the full lifecycle of a Solution, including:
- Understand the Business Capabilities that are required and translate this to Technical Capabilities and Solution Architecture
- Assist the customer (and business solutions analysts) to define and declare non-functional requirements for building out solution capabilities
- Design architecture and solutions to meet business requirements in a manner that balances architectural standards, and implementation and operational risks, with restricted parameters such as budget and time
- Document solution interactions and relationships, along with basic infrastructure and application onboarding requirements
- Assist in the creation of cost estimates including implementation as well as total cost of ownership
- Ensure the future-state solutions have been fully vetted, are performant and scalable, enable agility, can be supported, are cost effective and highly available, and meet the robust needs of the business
- Ensure security by design to meet Information Security policies, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Regulatory requirements, and industry best practice
- Assess vendor tools based on required capabilities, future capabilities, and architecture drivers, and document justification for tool selection
- Be hands on to demonstrate tools, patterns, security, performance, scalability, etc. in a lab environment when necessary
- Work with quality assurance team to ensure the testing approach is appropriate for the given architecture and solution
- Lead design reviews (pre-development) and implementation reviews (post-development) to ensure principles and standards are followed, and that technical debt is managed
- Create a feedback loop for those who are implementing and interacting with the solutions
- Participate in the definition of adoption and experience metrics for the solution to measure the success of the solution
Present architecture decisions, explain the end-to-end solution, educate others how they can contribute, and provide guidance on tool usage
Extract best-practice knowledge, reference architectures, and patterns for sharing with the broader community of Architects at Group
Document cost and performance metrics for different design patterns, and provide project teams the ability to decide the most appropriate pattern for their requirements, timeline, and budget
Participate in the definition and maintenance of Architecture principles and artifacts
Engage with tool vendors on their roadmaps and appropriate usage of their tools
Engage with industry experts to validate the architecture and designs, and understand industry trends

You will report to the Principal Architect – Americas Pre-Bind & Underwriting.

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Initiates own work receiving broad direction as needed
Guide and mentor colleagues at all levels and provides advice to senior/executive management on complex/strategic issues
Lead or manage large, long term or complex projects with dotted line responsibility
Ability to assess and advise on the department’s strategy
Independently resolve a variety of novel strategic challenges that have significant impact on organization-wide cost and efficiency with far-reaching impact
Resolve novel problems requiring creative application of advanced skill, training and education
Several years in relevant architecture roles.
Possess broad and deep insurance and architecture expertise and knowledge
Understand & be able to communicate business problems & technical solutions in appropriate terminology
Ability to navigate business dynamics/political sensitivities
Excellent presentation, communication (oral & written), and relationship building skills, across all levels of management
Strong Organizational skills with attention to detail and ability to handle change
Excellent problem solving and analysis skills
Must be able to work well under pressure and consistently meet deadlines
Ability to work as part of a team or to be self-directed as required
Practiced at working as part of a global team (including outsourcing) spanning multiple time zones
Knowledge and active use of Agile, SCRUM and Continuous Delivery
Understand cultural differences and be effective working in a diverse environment
Passion for learning and prepared to go the “extra mile”
You care about what you do, and what we do
Hands-on experience with architecting, implementing, and performance tuning of:
- Insurance products & services
  1. ISO, Workers Compensation, E&S, Propriety & Specialty Lines
- Modern Policy Administration Systems
- Billing experience preferred
- Dev/Ops knowledge a plus
- Azure and/or AWS cloud platform environment
- Container & Orchestration platforms
- Relational databases and structured query languages
- Integration
  - API’s, message queues, streaming technologies and event driven architecture
- Reference & Master Data Management
- Access control and security