Solutions Architect - Insurance

SUMMARY:
To coordinate the architectural design and implementation of a solution in alignment with Enterprise Architecture vision.

POSITION INFO:

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsible for Solutions Architecture

-          Develop the solution architectures for the different projects.

-          Combine various domain (business, data, application, and technology) architectural as-is and to-be models, with roadmaps to create an overall solution architecture and roadmap with the supporting transition architectures.

-          Accountable for the end-to-end delivery of the solution to the business.

-          Alignment between the EA and the SA to manage project risk and compliance.

-          Drive optimization of legacy applications for increased efficiency and reduced costs.

-          Reduce IT environment complexity and cost through consolidation and rationalization.

-          Consider re-using existing assets and cost-saving in all roadmaps and designs (Driving cost down) to support the IT Departmental objectives.

-          Drive digitization and modernization by leveraging new technologies and architectures.

Responsible for IT Governance decisions

-          Member of the IT Governance Committees.

-          Make joint decisions based on the IT needs of the organization.

Responsible for the development of complex components in IT Solutions

REQUIREMENTS:

      BEng Software Engineer / BSc Computer Science / Relevant IT Degree

      TOGAF Certification (advantage)

      Microsoft AZURE Architect Technologies Certification (advantage)

      4 years’ experience in Cloud architecture

      5 years’ experience in IT application architecture

      4 years’ experience in project management

      5-8 years’ experience in the following:

-          Application Design

-          Data Design

-          System Integration

-          ICT Industry Standards

-          Services Design

-          Solutions Modelling

-          Application Development

-          8 years’ experience in the long term insurance industry

KNOWLEDGE:

 Technology: Microsoft Tech Stack (SQL, .Net, C#, VB.NET (advantage), Azure Tech Stack, Angular 7.x+ and Bootstrap 4.x+, HTML5 and CSS3, JavaScript

 WCF Restful / Web API Entity Framework (.NET and .NET Core) .NET Core Micro Services

      WCF, WPF, ASP.net; MVC, OOP, .NET Framework,

      MVC Web Applications

      IT Governance: COBIT, ITIL, ISACA, Kanban, Scrum, DevOps

      Development: Scripting, Programming, Interfacing, Object-Oriented Programming, Design Patterns

      Infrastructure: Network, Server, Workstation, Peripherals, Security

      Frameworks: TOGAF, Zachman, ACORD or related

      Digital: Understanding digital and emerging technologies

      Operational Awareness: Designing solutions taking operability, cost, and business processes into account

      Business Knowledge & Contributions: Understands the broader business environment in which they work from industry, organization, Business Unit, and role perspective.

CLOSING STATEMENT:

      Only candidates who meet the above requirements will be considered.

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