Platform Architect - DuckCreek

Scope/Responsibilities

• Responsible for architecture & design of products on Duck Creek Policy or another underwriting platform including design of inheritance models, data models, common capabilities, and integrations.
• Owns the underwriting platform solution and designs/develops technology patterns/frameworks to deliver the solution effectively and efficiently while maximizing reuse.
• Act as the primary design owner of all underwriting platform solutions & associated infrastructure while collaborating with business and projects teams to assist with capacity planning, discovery, strategy, design and prototyping of new features & capabilities.
• Act as a broker between divergent business and IT teams to bring them together, share knowledge, solve problems, design common reusable assets and maximize the use of existing capabilities and frameworks.
• Work closely with project management and delivery leads to identify key activities and owners while ensuring alignment and feasibility of all planned deliverables and related dependencies and include all optimization feedback.
• Build and maintain relationships with our business and IT stakeholders across the enterprise while providing support, updates, and issue resolutions for their respective platform instances.
• Support infrastructure teams in build out, availability, performance, reliability and ensure that all non-functional system requirements will be met.
• Stays on top of Duck Creek Technology platform and other approved underwriting platforms as well as industry trends including Digital Transformation, InsureTech, AI/Machine Learning, microservices, cloud technologies, etc.

Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or another related field. 
• At least 12 years of experience as a Solution Architect, leading technical teams with strong software engineering background

• Minimum 10 years of industry experience in system development and implementation in the insurance industry.

• At least 7 years of experience in insurance technology projects/programs
• At least 7 years of experience with Duck Creek Policy Platform
• At least 7 years of experience in engineering, designing and implementing large & complex system & application architectures.
• At least 5 years of experience in performance engineering & optimization of distributed systems in API based architectures.
• At least 5 years of experience leading systems integration projects with many internal and external interfaces
• At least 5-10 years of hands-on experience in technology stack such as Microsoft.Net, Java, ASP.NET, IIS, Kafka, SQL Server, XML, XPATH, JSON, CSS, XSLT etc.
• Knowledge of message bus technologies (Kafka preferred, or MQ, Amazon SQS, etc.)
• Knowledge of various cloud design patterns and common security patterns (Azure preferred)
• Hands on knowledge of Duck Creek Policy, native API layer, Anywhere API, Duck Creek Author and building manuscripts, the Duck Creek Express UI, platform configuration files, support/debug tooling, and large schedule performance enhancing Duck platform features.
• Superior communication skills and ability to interact with business and IT resources at all levels.
• Experience with systems integration to third parties, internal systems, and downstream systems as well exposure of products and services to external partners or risk aggregators. 
• Good knowledge of Data & Analytics technologies such as Data Lakes, Business Intelligence Tools, Predictive Models, 3rd Party Data.
• Good knowledge of Microservices & API Mgmt., Java Script Frameworks such as Angular, Cloud Platforms such as Microsoft Azure is preferred.
• Experience with AGILE methodology. 

Critical Skills

Adaptability- Agility.

IT Methodologies.

Business Knowledge.

Deliverables Management.

Communication.

Influences others. Transfers knowledge to others. Has experience working with multi-vendor projects and related communications challenges