Lead Solution Engineer / Architect

Chubb • Whitehouse Station, NJ

77d • $170,000 - $190,000

About The Position

By joining Chubb's North American Solution Architecture and Engineering team, you'll be instrumental in developing our next generation underwriting platforms and supporting systems across Chubb's business portfolio. As the Solution Architect/Engineer, you will partner with global teams and hold responsibility for defining and engineering solutions and technically leading strategic programs to success. In this hands-on role, we'll also look to you to partner closely with engineers at the code/detailed design level to ensure solutions are built and implemented as architected.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science or Engineering degrees preferred
• At least 10+ years of experience as a solution engineer or solution architect delivering end-to-end technology solutions for large and complex projects, ideally in the property and casualty insurance domain
• At least 5+ years of experience working with insurance policy administration systems, including COTS products such as: Duck Creek, Insurity, Guidewire, Majesco, etc.
• Experience developing roadmaps outlining the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from current to future state
• Experience in application modularization and modernization including adoption of Micro Service Architecture models
• Coding experience in C#, Java, Kafka, MQ, JavaScript, Angular, Node.js, Azure, and/or AWS
• Experience in Integration Architectures from Service Bus to API Mediation and Event Bus models
• Ability to abstract-up to harvest patterns and articulate design decisions with senior audience (CIO level)
• Extensive knowledge and experience of underwriting platform architectures, from blueprint to solution design and implementation
• Experience in Information Security and Risk Management
• Experience in cloud solution design and implementation of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS and hybrid models
• Understanding of platform design and technology considerations to build out an ecosystem for producers and consumers
• Excellent communication, problem solving, analytical, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Good understanding of Insurance business domains, especially in personal lines property and casualty space

Responsibilities

• Develop flexible, adaptable, modular and reusable business solution architecture designs in collaboration with product delivery and operation support teams
• Collaborate with project managers and engineers to ensure alignment of program deliverables to defined and engineer sound technical solution
• Partner with developers closely to review code, enforce best practices in API based, Micro Services and Cloud environments, debug critical issues, and conduct performance testing to deliver efficient and performant applications
• Evaluate, learn and assist teams with open source technology solutions
• Identify technology risk and corresponding mitigation strategies
• Implement appropriate solution architecture governance processes and tools while maintaining a key focus on design patterns and technology standards
• Enable of Agile and DevOps practices in collaboration with product delivery and operation support teams
• Explore, evaluate and promote technology innovation within the enterprise

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Discretionary annual incentive program

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree