Description:  

1. As a contract solution architect, you will help lead the effort to create the technology target state for the customer facing and digital servicing systems of the Personal Insurance Unit of a global, Dow 30 company. As a direct report to a member of the Enterprise Architecture and Emerging Technology leadership team, you will interface directly with senior technology leaders to transform our current business and technology capabilities and pave the way for best-in-class solutions. You will be a dedicated contributor to senior Technology and Business leaders as they define a target state, roadmaps, and identify new and emerging technologies that will transform and optimize the business. You have an established track record of building high-quality enterprise solutions. You are results-driven and bring strong engineering skills and a deep understanding of modern technologies including Cloud-native, APIs, AI and ML. You are a person of high integrity, who believes in challenging the status quo when needed, while always first seeking to understand. You will work within a community of architecture leaders, helping establish and evolving a unified architecture vision.  

Job Description  

• Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities  
• Architecture responsibility within a major segment of Enterprise Architecture in support of the Personal Insurance business unit  
• Leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions  
• Hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions  
• Partner with Software Engineering to execute proof of technologies  
• Provides architecture direction for engineers in support of a technical pattern  
• Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernization  
• Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt  
• Create a partnership with Software Engineering  
• Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise  
• Participates in defining target state technology architecture and roadmaps  
• Ensures alignment of IT initiatives with the target state  
• Builds strong partnership with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction  
• Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture  

Minimum Qualifications  

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in work experience.  
• Five years of experience in engineering software within a line of business area  

Education, Work Experience, & Knowledge  

• Bachelor’s in technology related field or equivalent with 4+ years of technology Engineering experience  
• Organizational experience in an agile operating model  
• Established work in proof of concepts and technology  
• Strong proven Software Engineering experience  
• Supports technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals  
• Insurance technology experience desired  
• Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models  
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement  

Job Specific Technical Skills & Competencies  

• Must be passionate about technology transformations  
• Has hands on experience in the last 3 years  
• Executed technology modernization initiatives including migration to cloud native and API Strategy  
• Current experience with AWS, APIs, accelerators, DevSecOps  
• Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud  
• Good understanding of security  
• Experienced with large scale technology platforms.