Senior Technical Architect

Responsibilities

• Assume technical lead role in implementation projects and guide the work of the team.
• Responsible for the technical architecture across a suite of custom business applications and off the shelf products.
• Develop flexible, adaptable, modular, and reusable architectures in collaboration with business stakeholders and IT teams while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Develop the standards and patterns for application development across various technology disciplines including quality profiles, coding standards, configuration standards, and unit testing.
• Review high-level designs with technical leads and developers, review code, enforce best practices, and enforce performance testing to deliver efficient and performant applications.
• 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 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 organisation.
• Align with and adhere to Munich Re global governance processes and tools while maintaining a key focus on design patterns and technology standards.
• Act as a liaison between IT teams to bring them together, mentor, share knowledge, solve problems, design common reusable assets and maximise the use of existing capabilities and frameworks.
• Work closely with project managers and delivery leads to identify key design activities and owners while ensuring alignment and feasibility.
• Coach, mentor and collaborate with technical subject matter experts to develop technology architecture that enables and drives new business capabilities and operating models.
• Assess the state, risk and technical viability of the application portfolio, including how well it meets business needs, and determine the options for remediation.

Knowledge And Skills

• Strong project delivery background (ideally 7 years of hands-on experience in system design, systems integration or software development as a senior developer/architect).
• Strong knowledge of the processes of the entire software development and product life cycle: DevOps principles, patterns, UML, agile development practices.
• Deep technical knowledge in web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture, cloud architecture as well as experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints.
• Working knowledge in Database technologies MS SQL and Oracle.
• Lead end-to-end design which includes integration with other services (e.g. Microsoft Power Platform, Azure APIM).
• Track record of successful implementations that delivered value to the business, resulting in measurable business outcomes.
• Evaluate and design data collection, data staging, data movement, analytics delivery and data quality.
• Lead and guide the ETL developers in data profiling, source target mappings, ETL development, SQL tuning, optimisation and testing.
• API development, JSON, micro-service architecture, API Gateways, SOA frameworks, ESBs, ETL pipelines, etc.
• Proven track record of DevSecOps practices including Build-/Release-/Continuous Integration tools and frameworks such as Azure DevOps, GitHub or Jenkins.
• Knowledge of on-premise and cloud-based solutions.
• Knowledge in the use of Workflow solutions.