Solution Architect - P&C Insurance Domain

Job duties:

- Work with Client Partner, Technical Architect, project stakeholders to establish comprehensive and effective technical solution.

- Work with technical architect, business analyst and product team to establish most effective and efficient technical solution for product configuration and integration.

- Provide thought leadership to technical team(s) and stakeholders

- Estimate effort and budget for whole life-cycle

- Design and manage POC as required

- Support sales and pre-sales team

- Mentor technical staff to help them with responsibilities and establishing road map to assuming next level of responsibilities

- Identify leaders and mentor them and support them

Solution Architecture:

- Assess the current state, understand broad requirements and pain points to conceptualize solution based on client needs

- Define the overall scope, roadmap / plan, and execution approach

- Estimation and pricing

- Program / project management

Skill expectations

- 10+ years of experience in multiple lines of business in P&C industry

- Minimum 3 full-lifecycle implementation experience for product deployment and integration

- Experience in managing a team of 10-20 member team of technical architects / BA / Technology leads and business leads

- Lead teams of software specialists / engineers for the creation / implementation of technical architecture for a product/application

- Experienced in designing solution of technical integrations with third party applications with core business applications

- Experience in identification and mitigation of security related threats to application

- Experience in estimation techniques/methodologies on multiple technologies

Technology expertise -

- Experience in solutioning based on business rules and workflow engines

- Experience in designing new frameworks and understanding existing frameworks

- Experience in UML based analysis and design using tools

- Design/Development experience with object oriented programming preferably JAVA technology stack - Core Java, Web Services, JAVA, SPRING, JAXB, CXF, etc.

- Web services knowledge (SOAP, REST), Knowledge of Drools, GWT

- Strong database designing & RDBMS concepts

- Experience with testing methodologies and tools

- Experience with deployment tools and packaging

- Experience in software development processes with specific focus on requirement gathering on non-functional requirements

- Effective in handling teams, grooming, identifying the training needs etc.