DescriptionYour responsibilities will include:
- Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
- Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
- Conduct research and analysis to identify business problems, opportunities, and solutions.
- Oversee the evaluation and selection of new products, as well as the design of standard configurations and the evaluation and testing of specific solutions.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including senior management and vendors.
- Contribute to the development of enterprise architecture (EA) strategy based on a deep understanding of business strategy and plans.
- Collaborate and partner with other functions within Group IT to drive strategic initiatives and effectively support our business partners.
- Continuously analyze the IT environment to identify opportunities and recommend improvements.
Your skills and abilities should include:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of relevant work experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development.
- Demonstrated experience with a broad set of AWS technologies, across the areas of compute, data, networking and security, with a particular emphasis on serverless and containerized workloads. Similar experience with Azure and other Cloud service providers is a plus.
- Familiarity with Cloud platform management & governance at scale, particularly across a multi-cloud, multi-account, multi-region ecosystem.
- Deep and up-to-date expertise in SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, DevOps and micro services.
- Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
- Exposure and understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments.
- Exceptional communication skills (verbal and written), presentation skills, soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
- Knowledge of insurance industry would be advantageous.