Our Clients are a well-established Life Insurance Company. Our client is present in 107 locations across the country with access to over 100 million customers in more than 11,000 locations.

Role: Senior Architect

Reporting to : Associate Director of IT

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide long term information technology architecture, roadmaps and annual plans. Identify gaps or deficiencies in the existing portfolio of IT solutions, management information systems and reporting, technology landscape and processes.

- Manage the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements; including analyzing industry, technology to determine their potential impacts

- Identify organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the Enterprise Architecture.

- Simplify the IT landscape by reducing complexity, diversity of solution and establishing consistency of approach within IT. This can cover IT applications and Infrastructure architecture.

- Drive the development of enterprise standards and strategic target states and ensure alignment across MetLife technology departments and business functions.

- Cultivate an environment of innovation, thought leadership, and partnership.

- Drives to maximize efficiency in both application development and infrastructure.

Desired Qualifications and Experience:

- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent.

- Candidates must have 10+ Years of experience in software delivery and architecture team preferably in the insurance or financial services industries

- Candidates expected to have wide technical knowledge on SOA Architecture, Micro services, Cloud or Infra and so on.

- Candidates must have a deep understanding of the financial services business and be able to discuss the business implications of technology decisions, as well as the technology implications of business decisions, particularly in terms of costs and implementation roadmaps.

Knowledge and skills required:

- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English

- Strong interpersonal, conflict resolution and negotiation skills.

- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of financial, non-financial, technical and executive audiences.

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