In this role, you will develop, solve, and drive the digital transformation agenda in conjunction with the business, global stakeholders, and regional IT organizations. You'll get to be part of a team building a new end-to-end digital insurance platform to enable new distribution models. Insurance offerings on this platform will be specifically designed for high levels of automation and straight-through processing across the full insurance value chain.
Your tasks & key responsibilities:
- Develop a strong understanding of the digital insurance business and apply to architecture & design artifacts.
- Drive workshops on solution options with IT and & business subject matter experts.
- Investigate new technologies, platforms, and design patterns as applicable to business focus areas.
- Engage with business stakeholders on digital initiatives and proposed solution architectures.
- Creation of application technical design documents to guide development/delivery.
- Address technical queries from development teams.
- Coach development teams in best practices.
- Ensure development is in line with architectural design.
- Take end-to-end responsibility for technology solutions from design through to delivery.
- Provide technical leadership to delivery teams – specifically senior developers and business analysts.
- Make pragmatic and delivery-focused technical decisions.
Your skills and experience:
- 15+ years in IT across multiple IT disciplines.
- Prior experience in Applications Architecture in Insurance / financial services industry.
- Broad experience with modern technologies and applications integration paradigms.
- Recent project experience with UI/UX technologies, APIs, and systems integration.
- Development experience in Java & JavaScript preferred.
- Recent experience in Agile delivery / DevOps.
- Sound understanding of Architecture methodologies and standards.
- In-depth knowledge of recent UI/UX technologies (eg ReactJS), API design (REST/JSON) and applications integration technologies.
- Knowledge of data modelling/database design.
- Sound experience with Cloud technologies – especially AWS – Containers, Lambda, RDS etc.
- Sound understanding of IT project delivery and agile / DevOps methodologies.
- Passion for new and emerging technologies. Ability to investigate these in depth.
- Ability to understand business requirements in detail.
- Ability to work with both off-the-shelf platforms and bespoke development.
- Strong modeling & UML skills.
- Excellent communication & documentation skills.
This global insurance success story prides itself on out-of-box thinking and challenging the status quo. With an optimistic approach, they focus on the positives and constantly ask, "What can go right?" They value the experiences and know-how of employees and offer a wide range of opportunities across business areas.
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