Senior Principal Architect

• Own the design and solution integrity for L&A Policy from a business, integration, performance, security, and scalability standpoint.
• Work closely with business analysts, product owners and test leads to understand the business requirements and solution objectives.
• Authors/works with the Principal Solution architects on the technical solution architecture, design documents that outline the data model changes, process changes including whether they are to be done in rules or core logic, UI changes, interface/API design and other technical components.
• Institute thorough design documentation along with clear trace of why certain design decisions are made.
• Ensure an end-to-end solution approach - functional as well as non-functional, development as well as operating in production, robust for today's need as well as flexible for future needs and impact on implementing the solution for various clients - for determining best design patterns.
• Demonstrate API first thinking in building modular solution designs.
• Ensure that the design approach takes into consideration the performance and security aspects, reusability, and upgradability/backward compatibility.
• Create extensible designs so that customers and partners can extend from the product capabilities and make changes to align with their requirements without impacting the core processing.
• Create templates & guidelines to ensure that the various design considerations are followed across the team for consistency.
• Review the design approaches by other solution architects are in line with the overall approach.
• Work In alignment with SAFe Agile processes to ingest the scope of the project, complete the design specifications and accurately estimate the development timeframe at a user story level.
• Provide technical oversight as a design authority for multiple products, review and approve proposed architecture related changes from the Engineering team.
• Lead the implementation of the technical solution, including hands on coding where applicable and ensure the code delivered aligns with the design specifications.
• Conduct code reviews and provide feedback be a mentor to others
• Work with QC in ensuring the design patterns implemented are covered adequately through test cases

• Leadership & Ownership of the overall solution approach for Majesco Policy for L&A
• Strong design thinking and a pattern-based problem-solving approach
• Innate trait to analyze and learn the impact of design and incorporate learnings in future designs.
• Strong decision-making skills when faced with ambiguity or other challenges to ensure that the design is not compromised while other key business metrics are though through.
• Outstanding communication skills and the ability to connect, resonate, and establish credibility with an array of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Passion for reusability, extensibility, and scalability
• Innovative/creative thinking to solve for various business problems including suggesting to the business owners on changes where applicable.
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
• Understanding of existing solution constraints and customer history and drafting plans to work through them.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate and predict 'the question behind the question.'
• Global accessibility as well as the ability to seamlessly work with remote teams.
• Excitement and passion for leading a team and building new talent that can continue to put design first.
• Ability to tackle technical queries and problems with zeal and enthusiasm, helping team to successfully steer towards quality-based solutions.

• Minimum 15+ years of industry experience, including 5+ years in development & solution architecture for Packaged software (Products) and at least 5+ years in the life/group/P&C Insurance domain.
• 5+ years of experience in leader the solution design and development (at least at a module level - UW, Claims or similar)
• Experience of working in Agile (SAFe) projects and well conversant with Agile processes, metrics, and implementation.
• Should have working experience in solution architecture, requirement analysis, design, development, testing, production support, environment support and implementation of Enterprise applications.
• Prior solution architecture experience with another insurance package solution will be a strong advantage.
• Is hands on to implement the design in code and is experienced to do code reviews manually.
• Convert any repetitive manual code reviews into automated code reviews technical expertise and hands-on development experience in multiple high-level languages such as Java, C#.net, JavaScript, hibernate including a strong desire to learn and grow with multiple technologies.
• Knowledge of integration architecture & protocols - SOA, REST, SOAP, Message Queues as well as interface patterns and typical system integration techniques with and without ESBs
• Understanding of the end-to-end technical flow from UI stack to the DB including exposure to databases like SQL Server, Postgres, Oracle
• Strong understanding of the non-functional aspects like performance, scalability, and vulnerability/security
• Knowledge and working experience of design principles such as SOLID & architecture frameworks such as TOGAF
• · Planning, coordinating, and overseeing activities related to integration of software programs and applications into the organization's information systems.

• Bachelor's Degree (or global equivalent) in Computer Science or related field; Master's Degree preferred
• Good understanding of

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