Principal Architect

**Job Description**:
**Principal Solution Architect - Data & Digital Architecture**

**Innovation & Emerging Tech**

Bengaluru (Bangalore), India

We invent the new to help the world move forward. Combining powerful analytics and deeper insights with bigger ideas and innovative solutions, we free up our clients’ potential, thereby fulfilling our own. Take it seriously.

Make it fun. Know it matters.

Your expertise in Emerging Tech and Innovation strategy to maintain competences advantage, long-term sustainability, and growth. Innovation Solution Architect builds the roadmap to support adoption of new technology, meet evolving client's needs, drive efficiency and address complex challenges.

**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
- Assist in the creation of cost estimates including implementation as well as total cost of ownership
- Make sure 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
- make sure 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 make sure the testing approach is appropriate for the given architecture and solution
- Lead design reviews (pre-development) and implementation reviews (post-development) to make sure 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
- take part 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
- take part 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
- Actively participating in research and development activities
- Staying updated on the latest technological advancements and industry trends

You will report to the Head of Data & Digital Architecture.

**What you will BRING**

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

- Line management responsibility for Innovation & Emerging Tech solution architecture team
- Innovation & Emerging Tech domain architecture authority & accountability, is self-supervising from a technical perspective
- Act as a strategic advisor to management
- Use skills to profoundly influence senior/executive management where contributions may impact the industry as well as the company
- robust 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 organization
- 10+ years in relevant 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 busin