Solutions Architect - Camunda, Java

A leading Global Solutions & Services provider to the Insurance market is looking for a seasoned Solution Architect to partner closely with Product Leadership and shape complex, enterprise-grade solutions across multiple delivery towers.If you thrive on turning business outcomes into robust, scalable architectures-and you're hands-on enough to get into the detail when needed-this one's for you. What you'll be doingOwning solution design across multi-tower / multi-service initiatives, from discovery through delivery. Leading customer discovery to understand operational processes, pain points and desired outcomes-then translating that into pragmatic designs aligned to product capability and roadmap. Planning build activities with stakeholders, breaking requirements into deliverable features/modules for engineering teams. Ensuring engineering best practice: BDD focus, code quality, unit testing, performance benchmarking and troubleshooting. Bringing industry best practices into design and delivery, with occasional involvement in pre-sales (demos/proposals). Essential skills (what we need you to bring) Camunda BPM experience Kafka + strong understanding of Kafka architecture Experience of hands-on enterprise software engineering (design + coding). Strong Java 8+ / J2EE, Gradle/Maven, Spring Boot/Security. OO design + data modelling with UML; strong grasp of functional & non-functional architecture constraints. [Databases: Postgres / Oracle / MySQL / DB2 + JDBC + ORM tooling. Tooling: Git/GitHub/BitBucket, CI/CD (e.g., TeamCity/Jenkins), JUnit 5. API-first mindset with OpenAPI (OAS); security exposure to OIDC and OAuth2. Comfortable working in Agile environments; familiarity with coding assistant tools / GenAI / agentic approaches. Desirable (nice to have)Insurance domain knowledge and/or ACORD standards exposure. Integration tooling such as Apache Camel; ESB/EAI; API gateway/management platforms. Cloud: Azure/AWS/GCP; containers and DevOps practices (Kubernetes/Docker). App servers (Tomcat/JBoss/WebSphere) and observability (Elastic/Logstash/Kibana). Consulting-style stakeholder engagement and presentation skills. #SolutionArchitect #ApplicationArchitecture #Camunda #Kafka #InsuranceTech #Java #SpringBoot #Agile #ACORD #Azure #AWS