Duck Creek Architect

Job Title: Technical Architect – Duck Creek

Primary Skill: #DuckCreek, #Architect

Location: Hyderabad/Pune

Experience: 10+ years

About the job

Are you someone with an ability to take a leadership role in solving problem and working with a team to resolve technical complexities as well as provide confidence to our customers on the solutions and our ability to deliver projects ensuring high quality, innovation and functional design? We have an exciting opportunity…read on

ValueMomentum is seeking a Technical Architect with a strong background in designing and implementing business solutions that meet the functional, technical and performance requirements to join our growing Core Engineering group. You have deep insights into the software development lifecycle with an ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and ready to take on new challenges. You will lead and mentor a team of talented software developers to build world class applications and systems by providing guidance to the team from Duck Creek Architecture perspective.

You have strong understanding of complex software architecture to help your team with providing design input and architecture reviews. You will lead the development of proof-of-concept for the business problems. You will work closely with the customer architects & SMEs to ensure alignment of solutions with the business and IT strategies. Communicate regularly on solutions, expectations, estimates, priorities, status and impacts.

You will ensure team adopts the best practices from the perspective of architectural artifacts, interface, tools, etc. You will communicate regularly on the solutions and status to all levels of business and management.

Know your team

At ValueMomentum’s Engineering Center, we are a team of passionate engineers who thrive on tackling complex business challenges with innovative solutions while transforming the P&C insurance value chain. We achieve this through strong engineering foundation and continuously refining our processes, methodologies, tools, agile delivery teams, and core engineering archetypes. Our core expertise lies in six key areas: Cloud Engineering, Application Engineering, Data Engineering, Core Engineering, Quality Engineering, and Domain expertise.

Join a team that invests in your growth. Our Infinity Program empowers you to build your career with role-specific skill development leveraging immersive learning platforms. You'll have the opportunity to showcase your talents by contributing to impactful projects.

Responsibilities:

As a Technical Architect – Duck Creek, your day-to-day work activities will be as follows:

• To lead and drive a team of developers in a fast-paced environment while solving difficult business problems.
• Prepare and enhance design documents that would be needed to support product configuration – Field mapping, Data definition, rules definition and so on
• Be responsible for leading the solutioning efforts by developing and presenting POCs
• Identify value additions that can be built as configuration components and reused on multiple projects, in order to gain efficiency / productivity.
• Coordinate with business users, business analysts, and team members to understand the business requirements and configure complex business rules and workflows.
• Trouble shoot & resolve technical issues, provide solutions & workarounds to critical requirements.
• Lead, mentor & coordinate with the offshore team.
• Oversee and contribute to daily communication / reports between onsite and offshore.
• Oversee daily task allocation, monitoring, and status reporting to the client & project leadership.

Requirements:

The incumbent must –

• Have an overall work experience ranging between 10-15 years, with at least 5 or more years of Duck Creek Policy implementation experience, solution design, configuration, extension, customization and post live support experience.
• Have a ‘differentiator’ mindset – a practitioner who contributes to asset creation and build the competency / team
• Have a deep insight into the SDLC and strong understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of application development projects involving the implementation of complex business rules.
• Have proven technical experience in requirement analysis, detailed designs and implementation activities required to ensure the development, integration and long-term maintenance of applications.
• Should have proven experience in the following areas:
• Configuration and development of various areas of Duck Creek Policy.
• Experience on Author, Rules, Business Rules, Tasks, Notifications, Forms, Transactions
• Core competency and development experience in using and developing CBOs
• Experience as a Manuscript developer working on personal and commercial Line of business.
• Maintain and adhere to Duck Creek coding standards and best practices.
• Work with Anywhere API and Data Hub and added advantage
• Have previous experience with using any of the following - XML / GIT / XPATH,
• Use of debugging tools like TSV debugger, Example UTIL, Trace monitor.
• Experience on Duck Creek platform upgrade and DCOD will be PLUS
• Working knowledge on SQL server database is mandatory.
• Duck Creek Policy Certification is preferable
• Awareness on Cloud Implementation is beneficial.
• Experience working in Agile preferred.
• People first - Empower employees to succeed.
• Nurture leaders - Nurture from within.
• Enjoy wins – Recognize and celebrate wins.
• Collaboration – Foster a culture of collaboration and people-centricity.
• Diversity – Committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Fun – Create a fun and engaging work environment.
• Warm welcome – Provide a personalized onboarding experience.
• Compensation - Competitive compensation package comparable to the best in the industry.
• Career Growth - Career development, comprehensive training & certification programs, and fast track growth for high potential associates.
• Benefits: Comprehensive health benefits and life insurance.

Desired Skill Set:

Candidates with these extra skills on their resumes have an added advantage while their profile is being assessed. Some of them are as follows:

About ValueMomentum

ValueMomentum is a leading solutions provider for the global property & casualty insurance industry, supported by deep domain and technology capabilities. We offer a comprehensive suite of advisory, development, implementation, and maintenance services across the entire P&C insurance value chain. This includes Underwriting, Claims, Distribution, and more, empowering insurers to stay ahead with sustained growth, high performance, and enhanced stakeholder value. Trusted by over 75 insurers, ValueMomentum is one of the largest standalone insurance-focused solutions providers to the US insurance industry.

Our culture – Our fuel

At ValueMomentum, we believe in making employees win by nurturing them from within, collaborating and looking out for each other.

People first - Empower employees to succeed.

Nurture leaders - Nurture from within.

Enjoy wins – Recognize and celebrate wins.

Collaboration – Foster a culture of collaboration and people-centricity.

Diversity – Committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Fun – Create a fun and engaging work environment.

Warm welcome – Provide a personalized onboarding experience.

Company Benefits

Compensation - Competitive compensation package comparable to the best in the industry.

Career Growth - Career development, comprehensive training & certification programs, and fast track growth for high potential associates.

Benefits: Comprehensive health benefits and life insurance.

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