Solutions Architect

**About the Role**

**Working: Remote**

**Shift
- Regular IST**

**What You Will Do**
- Engage with clients to understand their requirements and advise on appropriate solution architectures
- Architect and design scalable solutions for **PAS insurance systems**.
- Lead **data strategy and API architecture**, ensuring seamless integrations.
- Utilize **TOGAF or Zachman frameworks**to define enterprise architecture.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business objectives.
- Provide guidance on best practices for **Java/React-based system development**.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with Product Managers to ensure alignment between client needs and solution design
- Work closely with Delivery Managers to oversee the architecture approach during solution deployment
- Explore a range of possibilities and creative alternatives to identify the most effective solutions
- Ensure that designed solutions are implemented in accordance with client expectations and company standards
- Assist in identifying, specifying, and selecting off-the-shelf components to meet client needs
- Provide ongoing support and guidance to clients throughout the implementation process
- Maintain awareness of industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve solutions

**Required Skills and Knowledge**
- At least 6 years of professional experience in solution architecture design and delivery roles in the insurance vertical with exposure to multiple lines of business
- Extensive experience in **PAS insurance systems**.
- Strong expertise in **data architecture and API design**.
- Proficiency in **TOGAF or Zachman frameworks**.- Need with insurance experience for sure and also highlight all experience of the profiles in
- payment gateway integrations
- Third-party system integrations such as external claim management systems etc
- Experienced in delivering cloud-based technology product solutions in an enterprise environment
- Ability to assist in defining and socialising a product/enterprise roadmap
- Ability to translate client requirements into actionable steps and solution architectures
- Understand business architecture models & patterns
- Has designed and implemented innovative and creative solutions to business problems
- Can think "outside the box", but also be able to understand the business constraints that lead to “in the box” approaches
- Experienced in designing solutions in a Relational DB and noSQL environment
- Experienced in designing for API & Micro-services centric environments
- Demonstrated capability to self-learn new technology trends and approaches
- Ideally has experience or understanding of the benefits of low-code platforms
- While the Solution Architect is not expected to build the solutions experience of multiple development languages & various DB engines will be advantageous
- Exposure to authentication and authorisation concepts (SSO, SAML integration, identity federation etc)
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

**Required Competencies**
- Must be equally comfortable discussing the solution strategies and enterprise roadmap with people at all levels of our organisation and CxO to project-level teams in our clients
- Strong analytical skills & ability to understand and collect business requirements from corporate clients.
- Strong ability to build the value proposition and solution documents, and in some cases, the business case for a corporate client.
- Relationship management experience with corporate clients.
- Excellent organisational, interpersonal & communication skills and an ability to engage audiences
- Excellent decision-making and judgment skills
- Understanding of insurance business processes across all areas and at least two lines of business
- Maintains direction and focus through proactive planning and organized approaches to work
- Certification in one architecture discipline (TOGAF, Zachman, etc.) is a distinct advantage
- Certification in one cloud environment is a distinct advantage with a broad knowledge and experience of the cloud platform’s capabilities
- A high proficiency in working in English as your primary language