Lead Architect - Insurance

Endava ,
London, Greater London
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Endava is a global technology company, with over 20 years of experience of working with some of the world's leading Finance, Insurance, Telecommunications, Media, Technology, and Retail companies. Through the Digital Evolution, Agile Transformation and Automation solutions, Endava is helping clients be more engaging, responsive and efficient. Endava has over 6,000 employees located in offices in North America and Western Europe and delivery centres in Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Colombia. Along with investing in long term customer relationships, Endava recognized the importance of providing rewarding and challenging careers for people and, by doing so, has established itself as the employer of choice. What we are looking for: We are seeking a dynamic and highly experienced Technical Leader within the Insurtech sector to develop digital ecosystem propositions that will disrupt and transform our Insurance clients business models. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of working within the Insurance industry, ideally across multiple markets e.g. specialty, commercial, personal lines and from both the perspective of the underwriter and broker; In-depth understanding of a number of commonly used insurance applications, both enterprise and startup as well as a view on the positives and negatives of buy vs build vs hybrid approach. In this role you must be confident in engaging in a range of conversations with senior client management and staff, have the ability to lead discussions, workshops & interviews, have the technical ability to both architect and design complex enterprise solutions, and the technical experience to specify future potential architectures. Your Responsibilities: Develop and shape our propositions to disrupt and transform the Insurance customer's business models, actively shaping scope, requirements and technical details of projects Develop architectural solutions in collaboration with Insurance clients, or review and validate the solutions produced by clients Provide thought leadership to our clients and prospects on trends in the insurance market through talks, meetings, webinars and publications Support pre-sales and 'pitch' activity by providing technical and solution expertise to the sales team and Endava delivery teams Create thought leadership papers and advisory models on technology potential and engagement areas for Insurance clients Attend conferences and be an inspiring leader/voice in the Insurance field Build an Insurance domain knowledge community within Endava Keep yourself up to date with best practices and Insurance sector updates Understand the trends and explore opportunities within Insurtech market Minimum of 15 years working within the Insurance industry, ideally be across multiple markets In-depth understanding of a number of commonly used insurance applications, both enterprise and startup In depth knowledge of the overall insurtech market 15 years of experience in delivering quality software solutions Exceptional client-facing communications skills, both written and verbal Expertise with architecting, designing, delivering large systems implemented in one or more popular technology stacks (including those based on Java, .Net, Python, Ruby, Javascript, etc) Experience in pre-sales efforts and running client engagements from a technical perspective Extensive experience in application architectures Understands a broad range of architectural patterns and styles (e.g. SOA, Microservices, etc) Experience in modernizing legacy architectures In-depth knowledge of one or more cloud platforms (eg. AWS, Azure) Knowledge of database architectures, data modeling, SQL and NoSQL approaches Proficiency in creating a broad range of architecture documentation Ability to conduct in-depth design reviews of large systems Understanding of DevOps culture, practices and tools Desirable: Enterprise Architecture experience Advanced degree in computer science or related field Knowledge of functional programming in one or more languages Exposure to offshore development using both agile and other delivery techniques In-depth knowledge with one or more complex technical domains, including Distributed Cache Solutions, Master Data Management, Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Visualization, Augmented Reality, Internet of things, etc Experience with Data Warehouse, ETL, dashboard, and associated reporting solutions is a big plus Experience with one or more CMS platforms such as Sitecore or others. Wide exposure to a variety of computer languages Experience with Continuous Delivery Extensive experience in working in the Insurance sector Public speaking experience

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