Senior Solutions Architect
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Job description
As we develop an enterprise-wide P&C Insurance strategy to transform our business, we are seeking a Senior Solution Architect that will focus on Insurance Underwriting Solutions. The Insurance Senior Solutions Architect is a hands-on, execution focused role helping translate the Insurance strategy, define architecture, and deliver the solution. You will need to work closely with the other architects as well as key business stakeholders to attend strategic workshops with the product owners and journey owners, as well as external advisors who are providing market insights and thought leadership to solve the complexity of underwriting.
In this role you will have an understanding of our Insurance applications and processes, and function as an Insurance architecture subject matter expert for our various projects.
Your expertise in Insurance products will help guide and reimagine End to End solutions for Submission, Rate, Quote, Bind, Risk Consulting, Claims and Underwriting processes.
What you'll be doing
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
- Drive the end to end solution architectures and designs for the AXA XL Underwiting Solutions for the P&C Insurance
- The architect will engage with E2E and Underwriting and CRM stakeholders to support the analysis of the business requirements and capabilities to craft the technical solutions.
- Requires strong technical skills, fluency and excellent communication skills.
You will report to the Principal Architect, * Salesforce Cloud platforms such as Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, or Commerce Cloud
- Integration with external systems using APIs, Salesforce Connect, and middleware tools
- Data modeling, including custom objects, fields, and relationships
- Data migration, ETL/ELT processes, and data quality management within Salesforce
- Event-driven architecture using Platform Events and Change Data Capture
- Microservices and modular architecture within Salesforce and connected systems
- Security models, including user access, permissions, sharing rules, and data security
- Performance tuning and optimization of Salesforce applications and integrations
What we offer
Inclusion
AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. That's why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential. It's about helping one another - and our business - to move forward and succeed.
- Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
- Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
- Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
- Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
- Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter
Requirements
- Hands on knowledge and experience with architecting and implementing Salesforce solutions
- Initiates own work receiving broad direction as needed
- Lead or manage large, long term or complex projects with dotted line responsibility
- Ability to assess and advise on the department's strategy
- Independently resolve a variety of novel strategic challenges that have significant impact on organization-wide cost and efficiency with far-reaching impact
- Established experience in relevant architecture roles
- Possess broad and deep insurance and architecture expertise and knowledge of underwriting Domain.
- Understand & be able to communicate business problems & technical solutions in appropriate terminology
- Excellent presentation, communication (oral & written), and relationship building skills, across all levels of management
- Strong Organizational 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 designing, implementing, and optimizing Salesforce solutions, including
Benefits & conditions
AXA XL's Reward program is designed to take care of what matters most to you, covering the full picture of your health, wellbeing, lifestyle and financial security. It provides competitive compensation and personalized, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do.
We're committed to rewarding your contribution for the long term, so you can be your best self today and look forward to the future with confidence.
