Underwriting Platform Architect

About Chubb

Chubb is a world leader in insurance. With operations in 54 countries and territories, 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 defined by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength and local operations globally. Parent company Chubb Limited is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CB) and is a component of the S&P 500 index. Chubb employs approximately 40,000 people worldwide. Additional information can be found at: www.chubb.com.

About Chubb India

At Chubb India, we are on an exciting journey of digital transformation driven by a commitment to engineering excellence and analytics. With a team of over 2500 talented professionals, we foster a startup mindset that promotes collaboration, diverse perspectives, and a solution-driven attitude. We are dedicated to building expertise in engineering, analytics, and automation, empowering our teams to excel in a dynamic digital landscape.

We offer an environment where you will be part of an organization that is dedicated to solving real-world challenges in the insurance industry. Together, we will work to shape the future through innovation and continuous learning.

Position Details:

• Job Title

  : Underwriting Platform Architect

• Function/Department

  : Technology

• Location

  : [Hyderabad/Bengaluru – Work from Office]

• Employment Type

  : Fulltime

• Role Overview

Key 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.

Required technical skills:

• 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.

Why Chubb?

integrity, inclusivity, and purpose-driven innovation

• Global Collaboration

  : Work on projects that have a direct impact across Chubb’s global markets and serve millions of customers.

• Inclusive Culture

  : Be part of an environment that values

  diversity, equity, and inclusion

  , where every voice matters, and ideas are respected.

• Professional Growth

  : Access world-class learning, leadership programs, and development opportunities tailored to empower your career journey.

• Work-Life Integration

  : Experience a supportive, flexible work environment that prioritizes employee well-being.

• Community Responsibility

  : Join initiatives that drive

  sustainable practices

  and support the communities we serve, reflecting Chubb’s commitment to corporate responsibility.

Employee Benefits

Our company offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support our employees’ health, well-being, and professional growth. Employees enjoy flexible work options, generous paid time off, and robust health coverage, including treatment for dental and vision related requirements. We invest in the future of our employees through continuous learning opportunities and career advancement programs, while fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment. Our benefits include:

• Savings and Investment plans: We provide specialized benefits like Corporate NPS (National Pension Scheme), Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP), Retiral Benefits and Car Lease that help employees optimally plan their finances
• Upskilling and career growth opportunities: With a focus on continuous learning, we offer customized programs that support upskilling like Education Reimbursement Programs, Certification programs and access to global learning programs.
• Health and Welfare Benefits: We care about our employees’ well-being in and out of work and have benefits like Hybrid Work Environment, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Yearly Free Health campaigns and comprehensive Insurance benefits.

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