Technical Architect Senior.

Accountabilities

As Senior Technical Architect, you will provide technical leadership across the architecture, development, integration, and operation of an automated insurance platform. Your responsibilities will include:

• Design and lead the development of a comprehensive technical platform for fully automated transactional insurance in the single-risk business segment.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and senior leaders to understand business challenges and opportunities and translate them into technical solutions and infrastructure.

• Serve as the primary technical expert, guiding teams throughout platform development, testing, deployment, and production operations.

• Develop continuous and periodic automated performance testing and monitoring processes, targeting a platform operational success rate of 98%.

• Establish Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for technical deliverables and platform performance to ensure customer and stakeholder satisfaction.

• Define and maintain the technical roadmap, prioritizing new products, enhancements, capabilities, and technology components.

• Engage with external clients to support integrations and drive successful adoption of the technical platform.

• Lead engineering resources, including internal staff and contractors, within Agile teams to ensure effective backlog management, sprint planning, and timely delivery.

• Ensure compliance with IT governance, security, redundancy, business continuity, and operational best practices.

• Drive continuous improvements in platform reliability, scalability, automation, and overall technical performance.

Requirements

The ideal candidate combines advanced technical architecture expertise, strong leadership capabilities, and in-depth knowledge of property and casualty insurance technology. You should bring:

• A master's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field.

• At least 5 years of professional experience as an Information Systems Architect, Technical Architect, Software Engineer, Enterprise Systems Architect, or in a closely related position.

• Proven experience managing internal staff and contracted engineering resources within Agile environments.

• Expertise in developing technical backlogs, assigning sprint-cycle work, and coordinating engineering delivery to meet business objectives and deadlines.

• Strong insurance domain knowledge, particularly in leading end-to-end automation for single-risk personal and commercial property and casualty insurance.

• Experience developing and implementing real-time insurance rating and pricing engines for property and casualty insurance.

• Expertise in designing and operating automated cloud infrastructure, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

• Experience architecting the orchestration of containerized workloads across distributed cloud systems supporting near-real-time applications.

• Proven ability to design data democratization platforms serving multiple internal and external stakeholders, including reporting capabilities, actuarial modeling environments, and end-to-end machine learning development and operations.

• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical and operational concepts to non-technical audiences, including financial decision-makers.

• Excellent stakeholder management, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration capabilities.

• Ability to work from the New York, NY office twice per week, with telecommuting flexibility available for the remaining working days.

Benefits

• Annual base salary of $201,950.

• Eligibility for a company bonus based on a percentage of eligible pay.

• Health insurance coverage.

• Employee wellness program.

• Life and disability insurance.

• 401(k) matching contributions.

• Retirement savings plan.

• Paid holidays.

• Paid time off (PTO).

• Hybrid working arrangement with the possibility of telecommuting, subject to the requirement to work from the New York office twice per week.