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.

Technical Solution Architect

The Technical Solution Architect is responsible for the creation of technical multi-component solution designs, and partners with Enterprise and Technical Architects to identify and implement solutions that enable the business. The Technical Solution Architect will provide technical leadership to a project team to ensure the technical success of a project, and provides expert knowledge of interface architectures, serving as Subject Matter Expert (SME) to business, operations and technology teams on those topics.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Authors Project Technical Solution Architecture documents that define the agreed solution architecture for a project including scope, interface design, impacted components, risks and necessary trade-offs including finding areas for re-use
• Provides expert knowledge of interface architectures, serving as Subject Matter Expert (SME) to business, operations and technology teams on those topics
• Reviews, comments, and approves deliverables created as part of the project delivery methodology
• Provides technical leadership to the project team to design the overall solution and to resolve ongoing technical issues within the project
• Provides ongoing support and guidance to development teams during the analysis, development and testing processes
• Presents technical issues to technical governance boards when required for project decisions and communicates those decisions to impacted teams
• Reviews designs for their ability to achieve business benefits within the estimated cost restraints
• Negotiates scope and costs with vendor partners as applicable for their project
• Collaborates with Enterprise Architects to review and contribute to Enterprise Technology Roadmaps
• Creates and communicates initial estimates including suggested solution, IS impacts, IS costs for minor, small, and enterprise projects
• Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the Technical Solution Architecture
• Collaborates with vendor partners for integration of partner development activities within project timeline
• Mentors technical resources interested in an Architectural career
• Establishes strong working relationships with Solution, Enterprise, and Technical Architects
• Establishes strong working relationships with the business, operations and other technology team members
• Participates in and support cross technology process improvement initiatives
• Participates in firm-wide Architecture / Engineering working groups, and ensures that the technology organization is aligned to corporate technology directions
• Perform 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, or Information Technology discipline, or a related engineering/computer field.
• 8+ years’ experience implementing Information Technology in an enterprise of similar technical breadth and scale. Ideally across multiple functional roles including Architect, Design, Code, Test, Deploy, and Operate
• 1-3 Years performing Technical Solution Architecture for a company of similar technical breadth and scale

Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities:

• Telecom BSS/OSS experience preferably in Amdocs
• Application experience including: CRM, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Inventory Management, Retail POS, Commissioning, Collections, Data Warehouse, Analytical applications
• Architecture Frameworks such as TOGAF
• Software Development: Java
• Integration Technologies: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Oracle ESB
• Databases: Oracle
• Understanding of software development lifecycle practices
• Knowledge of Interface patterns, and typical system integration techniques
• Knowledge of project management methodologies
• Knowledge of architecture methodologies, standards and tools
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations
• eSkills: HTML/CSS, Java/JSP, J2EE, XML, Angular, Node.js
• Standards & Methodology: CMMI, RUP, Extreme, Agile
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments

Other Requirements:

• Travel:   0-10%
• 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.