Summary: Seeking a highly motivated individual who possesses strong leadership, technical and analytical skills, with an understanding of the wholesale brokerage insurance industry preferred. The individual is expected to understand requirements, identify appropriate designs, code to the design specifications to ensure a quality solution delivery. Effective collaboration with the business users, IT, and various stakeholders is required. Serves as mentor, advisor, and guide to the team of Developers, Sr Devs, Tech Leads.
Required Education/Experience
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science
18+ years professional development and applications architecture experience
Responsibilities:
Serve as a Architect to design, customize, and implement IT solutions for wholesale brokerage platforms within the organization.
Maintains familiarity with new development tools and techniques for systems analysis, design, and development.
Single point of contact for architecture, design, and development for existing stack of applications.
Develop and review solution architecture, design, and code.
Ability to review and rationally analyze requirements in a timely manner.
Research and propose solutions for cloud data transformation, data connections, operational frameworks, and application integration.
Work closely with lead architects and engineers to create and maintain architectural templates and build/operational documents.
Work with DevOps and engineering teams to develop service catalogs.
Lead a large team of Developers, Senior Developers, Tech Leads across various Tech stack.
Develop an understanding of existing client IT applications while actively searching for improvement areas.
Streamline workflows and process optimization by implementing inventive technical solutions.
Engage with stakeholders, updating them on IT development processes and costs.
Deep hands-on experience with multiple development approaches, pattern and architecture means to implement solution. Collaborating with their team to identify and fix technical problems.
Work closely with business leads and product owners to understand solution requirements and identify architectural patterns.
Evaluate existing tech stack and emerging technologies on a regular basis.
Develop and implement ways to move applications and workloads to the cloud and modernize applications.
Enhance cloud capability by creating and implementing cloud application patterns.
Lead and guide development & support teams. Mentor team members. Technical/ functional guidance on the app
Orchestrate work prioritization, scheduling, and allocation for the rest of the Service Provider team.
Required Skills:
Familiarity with a variety of both legacy and modern coding languages, frameworks, and patterns. MUST Have: Typescript, PHP, XML, NodeJS, Postgres, PubSub, GCP and Azure Cloud, MicroServices, APIs.
Good To HAVE: Experience of .Net, SQL, T-SQL, MongoDB, and Java.
Looking for:
Solid experience working in Agile environment. Both Scrum and Kanban.
Solid Understanding of Web applications, cloud managed services, service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, microservices, containers, API development and managed databases
Hands on experience designing and developing new features.
Superior analytical and problem-solving abilities
Proven ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
Hands on experience with Jira, Confluence, Service Now, ITIL tools and process framework
Experience presenting and interacting with CXO Level executives.