Solutions Architect (Insurance)

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Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Desired Candidate Profile

Required Skills and Knowledge

• At least 6 years of professional experience in solution architecture design and delivery roles in the insurance vertical with exposure to multiple lines of business
• Experienced in delivering cloud-based technology product solutions in an enterprise environment
• Ability to assist in defining and socialising a product/enterprise roadmap
• Ability to translate client requirements into actionable steps and solution architectures
• Understand business architecture models & patterns
• Has designed and implemented innovative and creative solutions to business problems
• Can think "outside the box", but also be able to understand the business constraints that lead to in the box approaches
• Understand the optimum approaches for cloud-based applications with high availability and highly scalable solutions
• Experienced in designing solutions in a Relational DB and noSQL environment
• Experienced in designing for API & Micro-services centric environments
• Demonstrated capability to self-learn new technology trends and approaches
• Ideally has experience or understanding of the benefits of low-code platforms
• While the Solution Architect is not expected to build the solutions experience of multiple development languages & various DB engines will be advantageous
• Exposure to authentication and authorisation concepts (SSO, SAML integration, identity federation etc)
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Required Competencies

• Must be equally comfortable discussing the solution strategies and enterprise roadmap with people at all levels of our organisation and CxO to project-level teams in our clients
• Strong analytical skills & ability to understand and collect business requirements from corporate clients.
• Strong ability to build the value proposition and solution documents, and in some cases, the business case for a corporate client.
• Relationship management experience with corporate clients.
• Excellent organisational, interpersonal & communication skills and an ability to engage audiences
• Excellent decision-making and judgment skills
• Understanding of insurance business processes across all areas and at least two lines of business
• Maintains direction and focus through proactive planning and organized approaches to work
• Certification in one architecture discipline (TOGAF, Zachman, etc.) is a distinct advantage
• Certification in one cloud environment is a distinct advantage with a broad knowledge and experience of the cloud platform s capabilities
• A high proficiency in working in English as your primary language