Associate Solution Architect

**Job Description**:
**Associate Solution Architect**

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

We are looking for a collaborative, team player who enjoys working with diverse stakeholders and gaining exposure to strategic business transformation initiatives_._

**What you’ll be DOING**

What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Analyze business requirements, desired outcomes, and current environments to develop strategic architecture and roadmap.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, including business analysts, architects, developers, partners and vendors.
- Support & oversee the full solution lifecycle by:

- Mapping business capabilities to technical capabilities and solution architecture
- Assisting in defining non-functional requirements for solution development
- Designing architecture solutions that align with business needs while following architecture standards, budget and time constrains.
- Ensure target-state solutions are scalable, performant and highly available
- Embedding security by design to comply with Information Security policies, legal and regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
- Evaluate vendor tools based on capability requirements, future scalability, architecture drivers, providing documented justifications for tool selection.
- Lead design reviews before development and implementation reviews after deployment to ensure adherence to principles, standards, and proper management of the technical debt.
- Establish a continuous feedback loop for teams implementing and interacting with solutions
- Communicate architecture decisions effectively, providing a clear understanding of the end-to-end solution.
- Capture and share best practices, reference architecture, and design patterns with the broader architecture community at AXA XL.
- Engage with vendors to stay informed about their roadmaps and ensure appropriate use of their tools.
- Collaborate with peers to validate architectural designs and stay up to date with domains landscape changes.
- Rise or escalate to the manager when a point is identified as a potential risk.

You will report to Principal Architect.

**What you will BRING**

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
**Required Skills and Abilities**:

- Work on complexity issues as part of significant and strategic projects, leveraging knowledge, skills and experience to resolve challenges.
- Proficiency in Azure cloud platform environment (compute, networking, storage, security and identity management).
- Experience defining non-functional requirements (scalability, security, performance, and availability)
- Familiarity with APIs, event-driven architectures, and message queues.
- Ability to translate business problems into technical solutions.
- Must be able to work under pressure and consistently meet deadlines.
- Excellent presentation, communication, and relationship-building skills across all the levels of management.
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to adopt to change.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Good knowledge of Agile, Scrum and Continuous delivery methodologies.
- A passion for learning, willingness to go the extra mile and a effective ownership in work.

**Desired Skills and Abilities**:

- Insurance products & services.
- Possess broad and deep insurance and architecture expertise and knowledge.
- DevOps and Automation knowledge is a plus.

**Who WE are**

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

**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 benef