Senior Solution Architect

at  Manulife

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JOB DESCRIPTION

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  We are looking for a passionate technology solutions leader to design and lead technical vision, who understands how to deliver what the customer wants and needs, through great collaboration with our business, operations, and engineering teams.
  Are you excited to tackle sophisticated cases while being at the forefront of the technology journey? Do you want to help with the transformation of our insurance business? Join our team!
  How will you contribute?

Partner with engineering, business and operations teams to craft and implement cross-platform solutions to support our customers insurance needs and the partners selling our products.

• Architectural design of complex software components, issue, and solution considerations; apply industry standard processes to build scalable and secure solutions that have outstanding technical performance.
• Partner with product collaborators to help influence priorities while being responsible for the technical solutions.
• Complete gap analysis of current solution design, evaluate future needs and develop proof of concepts.
• Cost/benefit analysis of solutions considering technology, risks, scope, cost, quality, time, and resources.
• Learn how to measure critical metrics, understand their value, and then use the results to continuously improve both the ecosystem and your solutions.
• Be proactive, work with collaborators to define architecture prior to initiating an effort, present and explain these concepts.
• Design and develop reusable architecture models and share knowledge with the larger team.
• Keep models current and accessible to the larger team.
• Work across small to medium sized teams setting guidelines and clarifying outcomes.

Attributes:

• 7+ years proven experience as a Solution Architect
• Strong background in Cloud system solution design and Event-based architecture.
• Proficient in NodeJS, React, C#, Azure, .Net, Mongo/Cosmo, Window/SQL, Java, Salesforce, GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA, Power BI, AEM
• In-depth knowledge of the Azure ecosystem.
• Experience in design and architecture of software, understanding NFRs like scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Demonstrated ability engineering large scale sophisticated systems from design to production.
• You obsess about customers, listen, engage, and act for their benefit.
• Ability to translate sophisticated business problems and important metrics into a solution architecture.
• Have an eye for the future - leader with vision who flourish with learning about what’s on the horizon and seeing how it can be applied to the customer challenges we need to address.
• Deep understanding of business strategy and ability to craft software/platform/infrastructure architecture plans to support business outcomes.
• Excellent time management, organization, communication, and problem-solving abilities
• Excitement for learning and coaching others
• Collaborative attitude, willingness to work with team members; able to coach, participate in code reviews, share skills and methods.

• Ability to effectively articulate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomesStrong analytical skills, cope with complex situations through deliberate analysis and planning

Please refer the Job description for details