Solution Architect

Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

The position demands continuous engagement with various stakeholders to ensure the proposed solutions are practical, competitive, and aligned with the client s value proposition. The Solution Architect plays a pivotal role in bridging the gap between client requirements and technical execution, ensuring seamless integration and delivery throughout the project lifecycle.

• Facilitate alignment between business and IT, and across the democratized IT landscape.
• Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships.
• Adapt to changing business and operating models.
• Analyze trends and disruptions, and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes.
• Tell stories to visualize the future state and trigger long-term planning.
• Support various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric.
• Communicate the value of enterprise architecture, and its portfolio of services.
• Drive the evolution of the EA teams services and operating model.

• Master s or Bachelor s degree computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant.
• 4 or more years of experience in at least two disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment.
• Experience in Java development, Core Java, J2EE.
• Knowledge of various insurance domains such as Life, Health, Property & Casualty.
• Hands-on experience of insurance platforms like Guidewire and familiarity with the ACORD model.
• Familiarity with concepts such as Straight Through Processing (STP), Customer 360, and Account 360.
• Understanding of core insurance systems such as Policy Administration, Claims, Underwriting, and Rating.
• Awareness of insurance industry operations, regulatory requirements, best practices, and standards.
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, data and predictive analytics.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, and frameworks.
• Insight into information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Understanding of various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric and also different types of agile principles, methodologies and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.
• Awareness of existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments.

• The candidate should have minimum 12 years of experience in Solution Architecture.
• This position is based at our Bengaluru office.
• A 15 years full time education is required.