Challenging convention. Trying new things. Reshaping an industry.  

The team at Duck Creek helps insurance companies bring amazing ideas to life quickly and easily with software that thinks and works like they do. We're fueled by sharing ideas openly, challenging conventions, trying new things, and valuing "Why not?" over "Why?" Our certainty that there is always a better way to do things keeps carriers ahead of their competition and is helping to reshape an industry.  

If having a hand in transforming one of the world’s oldest and largest industries into a standard for innovation, open exchange, and peerless user experience sounds exciting, let us know. We may be looking for you.

Principal Software Architect

The Principal Software Architect acts as an architecture leader in a domain area in multiple activities and teams. Responsible for the high-level design/architecture decisions and drives continuous improvement of architects across the whole Suite of software products.

Responsibilities:

• Acts as an architecture leader in a domain area in multiple or all of the following ways:
  • Acts as a Domain Architect for an entire domain area, representing the design/architecture decisions of that domain area.
  • Refines technical backlog items for 3+ project teams in the same domain area.
  • Creation of the overall solution concept or architectural direction for 3+ project teams.
  • Provides guidance and support to the developers of 3+ project teams in the completion of stories against design/architecture plans
  • Represents the design/architecture decisions of 3+ project teams in the same area.
• Drives continuous improvement of architects across the whole Suite
• Participates in pre-sales and customer technical presentations
• Drives and coordinates our technical position with key vendors such as Microsoft
• Creates a conceptual design/architecture for large scale software solutions, working independently.
• Designs, codes, and/or configures solutions for Agile stories with key architectural impact.
• Performs other related duties and activities as required.

Requirements:

Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree, or higher education level, or its foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Information Sciences, and/or related field;
• Total Work Experience: 20+ years typical (software development), 15 years minimum,
• Product Experience: 12 years minimum, 15+ years preferred
• Domain Experience: 12 years minimum, 15+ years preferred

Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities:

• Expert knowledge of object-oriented design.
• Expert knowledge of Java or C# language and associated frameworks.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise application architecture patterns and distributed software patterns.
• Expert in relational data storage including database design, query optimization, and database operational considerations.
• Expert in Cloud platforms.
• Expert in XML technologies, especially XML document and schema design, as well as XPath and XSLT.
• Expert in software security best practices.
• Expert in the full-stack of technologies.
• Expert insurance domain knowledge.
• Expert knowledge of at least one of Duck Creek’s products, both technically and how the product meets the needs of the industry.
• Possess excellent analytical ability and be a compulsive problem solver.
• Must have excellent communication skills, both oral and written, to all audiences (technical and non-technical).
• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance to meet deadlines.
• Ability to manage others to deadlines.
• Highly experienced in daily software development activities such as unit testing, source code management, estimation and root cause analysis.

Other Requirements:

• Travel: 0-20%
• Work Authorization: Legally authorized to work in the country of the job location.
• Physical: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.