Sr. Solution Architect

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. As we develop an enterprise-wide Insurance strategy to transform our business, we are seeking an Insurance Solutions Architect. The Insurance Solutions Architect is a hands-on, execution focused role helping translate the Insurance strategy, define architecture, and deliver the solution. In this role you will have an understanding of our Insurance systems and processes, and function as an Insurance architecture subject matter expert for our various projects.

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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.
• 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.
• Document solution interactions and relationships, along with basic infrastructure and application onboarding requirements.
• Assist in the creation of cost estimates including implementation as well as total cost of ownership.
• Ensure 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.
• Ensure 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 ensure the testing approach is appropriate for the given architecture and solution.
• Lead design reviews (pre-development) and implementation reviews (post-development) to ensure 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.
• Participate 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.
• Participate 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.
• Key part of the role will be driving the solution architecture and design for the AXA XL Ceded Reinsurance Solution.

You will report to the Head of Digital Factory Delivery.

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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.

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