Job Title-
Solution Architect
Position type-
Full Time
Work Location-
Bangalore, Karnataka
Working style-
Hybrid
Cab Facility-
Yes
Shift Time -
10 AM To 7 PM
People Manager role:
No
Education
: BE/ B. Tech or Equivalent
Required Years Of Experience - 12- 15 Years
AON IS IN THE BUSINESS OF BETTER DECISIONS
At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.Specifically, within Commercial Risk Solutions we offer risk advisory, risk transfer and structured solutions that help organisations and individuals identify, quantify and manage their risk exposure through insurance.
General Description Of The Role
This role will provide the candidate an opportunity to work as part of a global Solutions Architecture group spanning multiple Agile Product Delivery teams. Specifically, this role is focused on our Marine Placement Platform - delivering a web-based solution that supports placing marine insurance and managing the voyages, declarations and invoicing.The solution will be based on SaaS platform and integrated via domain APIs into our Commercial Risk ecosystem. The role will also be responsible for defining the appropriate architecture and overseeing the delivery from a technical architectural perspective.
Job Responsibilities
- Early assessment of new requirements, defining the impact across products within our ecosystem, documenting solution designs, estimating and planning the future state of our system landscape.
- Contributing to Agile Planning meetings to groom requirements and defining features down to user story level to successfully modernize, enhance and scale the solutions in place.
- Attending Agile Scrums meetings to groom requirements, help unblock engineering roles as they deliver on features within their respective product team sprints.
- Quality oversight of delivery by developers in line with engineering standards, ensuring teams are equipped with the tools, access and training to perform successfully within their product team.
- Building up the architecture practice engineering know-how within an Aon context - adopting and extending SDLC and DevSecOps standards across Aon.
- Engaging Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Engineering and Project Managers to ensure successful and smooth delivery day-to-day.
- Serving as a point of technical escalation for Agile teams, addressing technical issues as they arise.
- Taking personal responsibility for architecture quality across Agile product teams, demonstrated by robust solutions.
How This Opportunity Is Different
Aon has transitioned to a product-oriented model and is investing in capabilities like never before. This role will give the chosen candidate a unique opportunity to shape the architecture for our Commercial Risk Ecosystem to drive significant revenue and efficiency opportunities across all countries where Aon operates
Skills/Competencies Required
- 5-10 years of experience in similar solutions architecture role, with specific focus on building secure enterprise-grade workflow solutions.
- Experience in commercial insurance brokerage is ideal, Marine Placements or Policies specifically.
- Strong experience in API architecture and design incl. REST swagger definitions for endpoint/payload design, API security, monitoring and management etc.
- Experience architecting domain APIs to run on Azure cloud incl. Azure APIm, Azure Functions, container-based applications.
- Experience in Event Driven Applications and Integration design
- Some experience in data mapping and analysis, interface specifications and data job design.
- Experience with relational databases, warehousing and lake-house technology - SQL Server, Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Blob Storage / AWS S3.
- Strong Agile knowledge - Scrum, Kanban, TDD and other practices. Certification desirable.
How We Support Our Colleagues
In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we are proud to be an equal-opportunity workforce. At Aon, we believe a diverse workforce is an innovative workforce. Our agile, inclusive environment allows colleagues to manage their well-being and work/life balance while empowering them to be their authentic selves.Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two “Global Wellbeing Days” each year, encouraging them to take time to focus on themselves. We offer a variety of workstyle options through our Smart Working model, but we also recognize that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work... and we are all for it!Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips colleagues to learn, share, and grow, helping them achieve their fullest potential. As a result, Aon colleagues are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.
COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABILITY
“Aon is dedicated to integrating sustainability into our core business practices. We strive to minimize our environmental impact through innovative solutions and responsible stewardship, ensuring a sustainable future for our clients and communities.”2568244