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Underwriting Frameworks Platform Architect Chubb is the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurer. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling expertise and local operations globally. The Underwriting Frameworks Solution Architect (this role) will be responsible for the architecture, design, performance, build, deployment and support of core insurance capabilities for Chubb built on modern and opensource configuration driven integration platform. A suitable candidate is a successful, experienced, and accomplished technology leader with significant hands-on experience in cross platform design and has a deep passion for technology and architecture. This role will be required to plan, manage, monitor as well as influence, differentiate, and guide both business and technologies teams across multiple divisions of Chubb through the various phase of the SDLC. The candidate is expected to actively collaborate with the business, business architects, and BA’s along with development teams, test teams, Enterprise Architects, Information Security, Data & Analytics, Digital Technology and other shared services teams to build cutting edge, highly reusable platform with a cloud first mentality. Scope/Responsibilities Responsible for architecture and design of rating models in Radar Base software including model versioning and segmentation, technical keys, integrations, private rating details for forms/print needs, and both Actuary and Underwriter needs. Infrastructure and model service integration request and response design along with model service deployment design within Radar Live Stays on top of industry trends including Digital Transformation, InsureTech, AI/Machine Learning etc. Owns the underwriting frameworks 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 frameworks 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. 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 Radar 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, Quarkus, ASP.NET, IIS, Kafka, SQL Server, XML, XPATH, JSON, CSS, XSLT, MongoDB etc. At least 5-10 years of hands-on experience in technology including IBM BAMOE rules engine. Knowledge of message bus technologies (Kafka preferred, or MQ, Amazon SQS, etc.) Knowledge of various cloud design patterns and common security patterns (Azure preferred) 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, 3 rd 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. Responds well to change. Handles multiple demands / priorities effectively. Adapts to best fit with situation at hand. Handles conflict effectively. Collaborates. Develops new skills quickly. Willing to accept new responsibilities. Takes initiative & accountability. IT Methodologies. Good organizational skills. Has experience managing projects and staff. Advanced technical skills or specialized knowledge. Analyzes tasks, dependencies, and resource needs. Manages budgets and performs financial activities effectively. Understands system development life cycle (SDLC) including AGILE methodology; uses project methodologies. Business Knowledge. Understands fundamentals of insurance, IT best practices, and technology. Understands some insurance business processes. Connects business problems to technical solutions. Validates that solutions achieve desired business result. Deliverables Management. Matches business requirements to deliverables. Understands & meets deadlines. Proactive identification and management of risk. Manages multiple work streams. Works effectively across multiple groups (both internal and external). Has experience managing scope and change control. Communication. Communicates effectively both written and oral. Responds to customers appropriately, timely, and accurately. Manages relationships effectively. Influences others. Transfers knowledge to others. Has experience working with multi-vendor projects and related communications challenges.
