Solution/Enterprise Architect with P&C Insurance
hace 23 horas
Purchase
Title: Solution/Enterprise Architect with P&C Insurance domain \n Preferred Locations: Purchase, NY → Morristown, NJ → Charlotte, NC. \n Alternate Locations : Alpharetta, GA; Chicago, IL; Conshohocken, PA; Denver, CO; Fargo, ND; Garden City, NY; Houston, TX; Lubbock, TX; Mt Juliet, TN; New York, NY; Topeka, KS \n Experience: Minimum 12+ Years \n Pay rate: $100/hr inclusive all (or) $200k/Annum + Benefits \n \n \n Client: SOMPO International \n \n Any tech stack is fine like (.net or Java or Guidewire, SAP etc.) \n \n Top 5 Skills / Requirements \n\n • P&C Insurance Domain Expertise across the insurance value chain.\n, • Solution / Enterprise Architecture experience in P&C insurance.\n, • Solution Building Experience, from initial solutioning through architecture.\n, • Build vs. Buy Advisory, with strong knowledge of insurance products and platforms.\n, • AI & Automation, focused on improving operational efficiency and business value.\n\n Compensation \n\n • Contract Pay Rate: $100/hour\n, • Full-Time Salary: $200K/year\n\n Role Summary: \n\n • Client is seeking a highly experienced Senior Technology & Solution Architect to support strategic technology initiatives across Global Commercial Insurance, Specialty Insurance, and Reinsurance businesses operating in the US, UK, Europe, Singapore, and Australia.\n, • The role will operate across Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, and Technology Planning, serving as the bridge between business strategy and technology delivery. The successful candidate will take a business problem, opportunity, or transformation idea from inception, translate it into a well-defined solution architecture, and develop the associated technology roadmap, dependencies, workstreams, and implementation approach required to initiate a project.\n, • A key expectation is the ability to transform ambiguous business needs into an architecturally sound and executable initiative that can be transitioned to a Project/Program Manager and delivery teams for implementation.\n, • The ideal candidate will combine strong Commercial and Specialty Insurance/Reinsurance domain knowledge with broad enterprise architecture experience and familiarity with platforms such as Guidewire, SAP Insurance/Reinsurance/Finance, VIPR, integration technologies, data platforms, and cloud solutions. Well verse with AI and other productivity tools.\n\n \n Role Responsibilities: \n Business Problem to Solution Architecture: \n\n • Partner with business and technology stakeholders to understand business problems, strategic objectives, transformation opportunities, and technology needs.\n, • Translate business ideas and requirements into solution architectures and technology options.\n, • Define current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures, considering applications, integration, data, cloud/infrastructure, security, and operational requirements.\n, • Conduct technology option assessments, including build vs. buy vs. extend vs. integrate, and provide recommendations based on business value, cost, risk, scalability, and strategic alignment.\n, • Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, technology standards, security requirements, and longer-term business strategy.\n\n Project Inception & Architecture-Driven Planning: \n\n • Take initiatives from problem statement or early-stage concept through project inception and delivery readiness.\n, • Define business and technology scope, major solution components, workstreams, assumptions, constraints, risks, and dependencies.\n, • Translate architecture into actionable project components, milestones, phases, and implementation sequences.\n, • Identify dependencies across applications, APIs/integration, data, infrastructure/cloud, security, vendors, and business teams.\n, • Develop high-level resource, skill, effort, and technology considerations to support business case and project planning.\n, • Produce an architecture/project inception package with sufficient definition for a Project or Program Manager to mobilize and execute the initiative.\n\n Enterprise Architecture & Technology Planning: \n\n • Contribute to enterprise architecture strategy, standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps.\n, • Assess existing application and technology landscapes to identify capability gaps, technical debt, modernization opportunities, application rationalization, and platform consolidation opportunities.\n, • Develop multi-phase technology roadmaps balancing strategic target-state architecture with practical near-term delivery.\n, • Provide architecture governance and design oversight throughout project implementation.\n, • Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Engineering Leaders, Product Owners, PMO, delivery teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.\n, • Present architecture recommendations and technology strategies effectively to both senior business executives and technical stakeholders.\n\n \n Technical Qualifications: \n Insurance Domain & Platforms \n\n • Strong knowledge of Global Commercial, Specialty Insurance, and Reinsurance business and technology landscapes.\n, • Understanding of key insurance capabilities including:\n, • Submission, Quote, Bind and Policy Issuance\n, • Underwriting and Risk Assessment\n, • Policy Administration\n, • Billing and Premium Processing\n, • Claims Management\n, • Ceded and Assumed Reinsurance\n, • Treaty and Facultative Reinsurance\n, • Reinsurance Accounting, Recoveries and Settlements\n, • Insurance Finance and Accounting\n, • Broker, Delegated Authority and Bordereaux processes\n, • Experience with global insurance markets, preferably including US, UK/London Market, Europe, Singapore, and/or Australia.\n, • Experience with insurance technology platforms such as:\n, • Guidewire PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter and BillingCenter\n, • SAP Insurance / Reinsurance / Finance solutions\n, • VIPR and/or Specialty/London Market platforms\n, • Underwriting, Reinsurance, Finance and Claims platforms\n\n \n Architecture & Technology \n\n • Strong experience in Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture and/or Technology Architecture.\n, • Ability to develop:\n, • Business and technology capability maps\n, • Current and target-state architectures\n, • Solution and integration architectures\n, • Technology option assessments\n, • Transition architectures\n, • Dependency and system interaction models\n, • Architecture-driven project plans\n, • Multi-year technology and transformation roadmaps\n, • Good understanding of API-led integration, enterprise integration, messaging/event-driven architecture, and distributed enterprise systems.\n, • Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and/or AWS, including cloud-native and SaaS architectures.\n, • Understanding of enterprise data architecture, analytics, security, IAM, DevSecOps, CI/CD, resilience, and regulatory requirements.\n, • Experience supporting legacy modernization, application rationalization, platform transformation, cloud migration, and large-scale integration programs and AI.\n\n \n General Qualifications: \n\n • Typically 12+ years of enterprise IT experience, including significant experience in insurance technology environments.\n, • 7+ years of experience performing Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Technology Architecture, or equivalent responsibilities.\n, • Demonstrated ability to move between business strategy, architecture, technology planning, and delivery execution.\n, • Proven ability to take an ambiguous problem or idea, structure it, develop solution options, and transform it into a delivery-ready technology initiative.\n, • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to balance business value, cost, technology strategy, delivery risk, and speed-to-market.\n, • Experience working within complex global organizations involving multiple business units, systems, vendors, and geographically distributed teams.\n, • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with CIO/CTO leadership, business executives, architects, engineers, Product Owners, and Program/Project Managers.\n, • Ability to influence architecture and technology decisions without necessarily having direct organizational authority.\n, • Strong documentation and presentation skills with the ability to simplify complex technology topics for business audiences.\n, • Experience facilitating architecture workshops, discovery sessions, solution reviews, and technology planning discussions.\n\n \n Education Qualifications: \n Required \n\n • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.\n\n Preferred \n\n • Master's degree in Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or Business Administration.\n, • Relevant architecture certifications such as TOGAF, Azure/AWS Architecture, or equivalent enterprise/solution architecture certifications.\n, • Insurance industry certifications or demonstrated deep experience within Commercial, Specialty, London Market, and Reinsurance environments.\n\n