Insurance Principal Architect - APAC & Europe, UK & Lloyd’s

London, UK

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As we develop an enterprise-wide Insurance strategy to transform our business, we are seeking an Insurance Principal Architect. The Insurance Principal Architect is a hands-on, execution focused role helping translate the Insurance strategy, define architecture, and deliver the solution. In this role you will have an understanding of our Insurance systems and processes, and function as an Insurance architecture subject matter expert for our various projects.

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What will your essential responsibilities include?

Understanding of AXA XL’s existing architecture
Understand user requirements (desired output & outcome) and existing environments (current state), and translate these into an architecture and road map
Collaborate with customers, analysts, other architects, modelers, developers, testers, partners and vendors
Guide the full lifecycle of a Solution, including:
Understand the Business Capabilities that are required and translate this to Technical Capabilities and Solution Architecture
Assist the customer (and business solutions analysts) to define and declare non-functional requirements for building out solution capabilities
Design AXA XL’s architecture and solutions to meet business requirements in a manner that balances architectural standards, and implementation and operational risks, with restricted parameters such as budget and time
Document solution interactions and relationships, along with basic infrastructure and application onboarding requirements
Assist in the creation of cost estimates including implementation as well as total cost of ownership
Ensure the future-state solutions have been fully vetted, are performant and scalable, enable agility, can be supported, are cost effective and highly available, and meet the robust needs of the business
Ensure security by design to meet Information Security policies, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Regulatory requirements, and industry best practice
Assess vendor tools based on required capabilities, future capabilities, and architecture drivers, and document justification for tool selection
Be hands on to demonstrate tools, patterns, security, performance, scalability, etc. in a lab environment when necessary
Work with quality assurance team to ensure the testing approach is appropriate for the given architecture and solution
Lead design reviews (pre-development) and implementation reviews (post-development) to ensure principles and standards are followed, and that technical debt is managed
Create a feedback loop for those who are implementing and interacting with the solutions
Participate in the definition of adoption and experience metrics for the solution to measure the success of the solution
Present architecture decisions, explain the end-to-end solution, educate others how they can contribute, and provide guidance on tool usage
Extract best-practice knowledge, reference architectures, and patterns for sharing with the broader community of Architects at AXA XL and/or AXA Group
Document cost and performance metrics for different design patterns, and provide project teams the ability to decide the most appropriate pattern for their requirements, timeline, and budget
Participate in the definition and maintenance of Architecture principles and artifacts
Engage with tool vendors on their roadmaps and appropriate usage of their tools
Engage with industry experts to validate the architecture and designs, and understand industry trends

You will report to the Head of Insurance Architecture.

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Bachelors Degree or equivalent
Line management responsibility for APAC & Europe, UK & Lloyd's solution architecture team
Rate Quote Bind, Underwriting, Claims and Risk Consulting domain architecture authority & accountability, is self-supervising from a technical perspective
Act as a strategic advisor to management
Experience in technology products evaluation
Use skills to profoundly influence senior/executive management where contributions may impact the industry as well as the company
Effective management and leadership skills with the ability to influence department’s strategy
Work on novel and diverse, "state-of-the-art" issues/problems, and on assignments of large scope, impact and importance
Contribute to the development of the Strategic Architecture
Provide technical training and direction to others as needed at all levels of the organisation
Established experience within architecture roles.
Possess broad and deep insurance and architecture expertise and knowledge
Understand & be able to communicate business problems & technical solutions in appropriate terminology and ability to influence across business lines
Ability to navigate business dynamics/political sensitivities
Excellent presentation, communication (oral & written), and relationship building skills, across all levels of management
Proven organisational skills with attention to detail and ability to handle change
Excellent problem solving and analysis skills
Must be able to work well under pressure and consistently meet deadlines
Ability to work as part of a team or to be self-directed as required
Practiced at working as part of a global team (including outsourcing) spanning multiple time zones
Knowledge and active use of Agile, SCRUM and Continuous Delivery
Understand cultural differences and be effective working in a diverse environment
Passion for learning and prepared to go the “extra mile”
You care about what you do, and what we do
Hands-on experience with architecting, implementing, and performance tuning of:Insurance products & services
Basic Salesforce knowledge – mandatory
Azure cloud platform environment
Container & Orchestration platforms
Relational databases and structured query languages
Message queues, streaming technologies, and event driven architecture
Microservices
Integration and ETL/ELT technologies
Reference & Master Data Management
Access control and security

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