Director, Platform Architecture

Fortegra•Jacksonville, FL

6d•$160,000 - $190,000

About The Position

We are seeking a hands-on Platform Architect to drive the design and build-out of a modern insurance platform leveraging InsureMO, Unqork, and cloud-native APIs and front ends. This role is central to enabling Fortegra's specialty program business models—spanning underwriting, program launches, policy administration, billing, financials, and claims administration. Unlike a traditional enterprise architect, this position requires deep technical engagement: designing domain services, building reference implementations, orchestrating event-driven integrations, and collaborating directly with engineering teams. The ideal candidate understands how to define, communicate, and guide architectural vision at the executive and individual engineer level.

Requirements

8+ years of hands-on software engineering/architecture experience.
Strong communication skills and the ability to work hands-on with engineering teams.
Strong experience with event-driven architectures, microservices, and distributed systems.
Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms
Proficiency with modern development languages (.NET Core, Node.js, Python).
Understanding of insurance or financial systems—preferably specialty, program, or commercial lines.
Experience designing APIs, event models, and scalable domain services.

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating or architecting solutions around InsureMO (or similar middle-office platforms).
Experience building workflows or applications using Unqork or comparable no/low-code frameworks.
Familiarity with event sourcing, CQRS, DDD, and real-time event streaming.
Understanding of specialty program operational flows—submissions, endorsements, premium reporting, bordereaux, TPA integration, etc.
Experience modernizing legacy insurance systems or migrating to cloud-native SaaS or microservice ecosystems.

Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Design Lead the decomposition of disparate, siloed applications into a modular, composable architecture that enables reuse, accelerates delivery, and supports rapid program evolution.
Define architectural vision and roadmap to reach the target-state composable architecture and guide module design decisions.
Dive deep into the architecture and best practices for InsureMO’s middle-office platform and Unqork's no-code platform.
Partner with vendor solution architects to align to target-state design.
Develop architectural patterns, blueprints, and templates for Azure cloud-native front-ends and microservices.
Partner with delivery teams to ensure API contracts, data models, event schemas, and integration patterns align with long-term platform strategy.
Establish guidelines for using AI-driven architectural decisioning, code generation, and design tooling to accelerate and standardize solution delivery.
Hands-On Technical Leadership Build prototypes, reference solutions, and foundational libraries used across teams.
Partner closely with development teams implementing services, Unqork modules, and cloud-native front ends.
Evaluate and optimize InsureMO configurations, including product definitions, BO APIs, event consumption, and orchestration.
Guide decomposition of legacy workflows into modular, API-first processes.
Provide architectural direction for cloud configuration, CI/CD automation, scalability, observability, and performance tuning.
Champion the use of AI coding tools (e.g., Replit, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot) to improve development efficiency, consistency, and quality.
Insurance Domain & Program Business Enablement Translate specialty program business requirements— underwriting rules, client self-service, bordereaux processing, financials, compliance, reinsurance structures—into scalable technical architecture.
Enable rapid deployment of new program products via InsureMO product configuration and Unqork’s no-code capabilities.
Ensure seamless data exchange and workflow execution between partners such as MGAs, TPAs, reinsurers, and distribution channels.
Architect solutions that support multi-tenant or multi-program use cases with strong governance and data segregation.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement Work with underwriting, product, operations, and actuarial partners to ensure platform capabilities meet business objectives.
Partner with Data Engineering, Data Science, Security, DevOps, and Cloud Infrastructure teams to ensure security, resiliency, compliance, and observability.
Communicate architectural decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and business audiences.
Educate and mentor teams on best practices and the overarching architectural vision