Technical Architect

at  AXA

TECHNICAL ARCHITECT

Hartford, CT I Stamford, CT I Morristown, NJ I New York, NY I Exton, PA I USA
Canada
The Technical Architect role is the lead technologist for a set of products or platforms. We are seeking an experienced Technical Architect with a robust background in the Insurance industry. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience designing and implementing technical solutions for insurance companies with a focus on enhancing business operations and improving customer experiences. The Technical Architect will work closely with various teams to understand business needs and requirements and then design and implement technology solutions to meet those needs.
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What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Design and implement technology solutions to support business operations and improve customer experiences.
• Collaborate with various teams to gather and analyze business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Create technical architecture designs, including system components, modules and interfaces
• Develop and implement standards and procedures for technical architecture design and development.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams.
• For internal assets, support Application Managers to develop and maintain Product Roadmaps
• Maintain a capacity plan with historical performance metrics, a future forecast and a capacity model to ensure services and infrastructure deliver performance and growth targets in a cost effective and proactive manner.
• Manage architecture exceptions for the application, including identifying, documenting, taking through exception approval process and remediation where and when possible.
• Monitor application services to ensure performance consistently meets non-functional requirements (response time, security, etc.)
• Ensure technology solutions are in line with industry standards, best practices and technologies in the insurance industry.
• Take a lead role in the detailed design (Component Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, HLD documents) of the transformed IT ecosystem from a technology, process, integration and data design perspective.
• Influence & engage key business & IT stakeholders in the definition of technology requirements.
• Provide technical support, mentor and develop vendor and junior IT Specialist resources and the test teams.
• Working closely with the Architecture Review Board throughout lifecycle of change & provide detailed handovers as change is delivered into test and production environments and integration to wider ecosystem.
• Adhere to standard processes/procedures and policies including delivery methods, change management, service transition, audit, data management, security, SOX etc.
• Develop optimal modular solutions covering the latest technologies, application scalability and reusability.

You will report to Delivery Lead.

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We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Science or related field
• Extensive experience in technical architecture design and implementation, with robust focus on the commercial Insurance industry
• Robust technical skills in IBM iSeries (AS400), Database design, Understanding of APIs and integration with backend systems, Micro Services Architecture, Web services.
• Broad understanding of Application, Information and Infrastructure technologies & Security practices
• Knowledge of Cloud computing technologies with hands on experience in Move to Cloud projects
• Experience with software development methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with various teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to mentor and guide developers on software architecture

• Design and implement technology solutions to support business operations and improve customer experiences.
• Collaborate with various teams to gather and analyze business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Create technical architecture designs, including system components, modules and interfaces
• Develop and implement standards and procedures for technical architecture design and development.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams.
• For internal assets, support Application Managers to develop and maintain Product Roadmaps
• Maintain a capacity plan with historical performance metrics, a future forecast and a capacity model to ensure services and infrastructure deliver performance and growth targets in a cost effective and proactive manner.
• Manage architecture exceptions for the application, including identifying, documenting, taking through exception approval process and remediation where and when possible.
• Monitor application services to ensure performance consistently meets non-functional requirements (response time, security, etc.)
• Ensure technology solutions are in line with industry standards, best practices and technologies in the insurance industry.
• Take a lead role in the detailed design (Component Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, HLD documents) of the transformed IT ecosystem from a technology, process, integration and data design perspective.
• Influence & engage key business & IT stakeholders in the definition of technology requirements.
• Provide technical support, mentor and develop vendor and junior IT Specialist resources and the test teams.
• Working closely with the Architecture Review Board throughout lifecycle of change & provide detailed handovers as change is delivered into test and production environments and integration to wider ecosystem.
• Adhere to standard processes/procedures and policies including delivery methods, change management, service transition, audit, data management, security, SOX etc.
• Develop optimal modular solutions covering the latest technologies, application scalability and reusability