Data Modeler

Responsibilities

• Develop application and system roadmaps associated with applications transformation and modernization.
• Develop flexible, adaptable, modular, and reusable solution designs in collaboration with business stakeholders and the IT development teams while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Support the definition of high-level operational models, and prepare business cases in alignment with the IT security and quality guidelines.
• Present business cases for operational and tactical technical initiatives for approval, funding, and prioritization.
• Uphold appropriate solution architecture governance processes and tools while maintaining focus on design patterns and technology standards.
• Be the accountable individual for the finalization, acceptance, and approval of solutions you architected by relevant stakeholders.
• Act as an enabler of Agile and DevSecOps practices in collaboration with product delivery and operation support teams.
• Explore, evaluate, and promote technology innovation within the organization.
• Review high-level designs with technical leads and developers, review code, enforce best practices, assist with debugging critical issues, and enforce performance testing to deliver efficient and performant applications.
• Identify technology risk(s) of initiatives you are leading as an architect and develop corresponding mitigation strategies.
• Stay current on, evaluate, and recommend the use of cutting-edge technologies and methods, considering their technical pros and limitations.
• Leverage market and technology trends to identify the business benefits of alternative technical solutions.
• Support the requirements gathering process to right-size initiatives and solution strategy.
• Collaborate with development teams and assist with the application of Agile and DevSecOps techniques within architecture and designs.
• Create comprehensive solution architecture specification documents and other required documentation.
• Help maintain a business unit-level repository of architecture assets (platforms, services, APIs, technical debt, etc.) and promote reuse across the organization.

Knowledge And Skills

• Experience in the insurance (e.g. UW, Claim, Policy Issuance) ideally with Guidewire.
• Exceptional analytical and critical thinking skills, with thorough attention to detail.
• Excellent planning, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of design and implementation of solutions and systems using custom built and CoTS / MoTS applications hosted in the cloud and on-prem.
• Experience designing solutions including policy administration systems, ERP, and customer / agent-facing portals.
• Substantial knowledge of the system development life cycle and the scaled agile methodology. Certifications preferred.
• TOGAF certification is a significant plus.
• Demonstrate competence to work at the highest technical level of all phases of system architecture design, using state of the art rule/framework-based architecture, object-oriented component analysis, and proficiency in web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, and enterprise application architecture.
• Ability to guide and mentor development teams on sound design and coding principles, best practices in API based, Micro Services, and Cloud technologies.
• Experience in integration architectures from Service Bus to API mediation and event bus models.
• Strong knowledge of contemporary technologies and business trends that allows architecture to solve problems in a creative and cost-effective manner.