Lead Solutions Engineer / Architect

Chubb • Whitehouse Station, NJ

51d • $150,000 - $200,000

About The Position

Join our North American Solution Architecture and Engineering team to lead the design and delivery of next generation underwriting platforms and supporting systems. As a Lead Solution Engineer/Architect, you'll leverage your deep insurance policy administration experience-with platforms like Duck Creek Policy, Guidewire, Insurity, or Majesco - to influence the design, development, and implementation of solutions that efficiently support evolving business needs. This foundation empowers you to anticipate business requirements and expeditiously deliver solutions that are both compliant and impactful. An engineer and architect at your core, taking this role is a step that places you at the intersection of both. You'll partner with global teams and stakeholders to define, engineer, and deliver robust, modular solutions. You thrive on diving into technical details-reviewing code, enforcing best practices, guiding engineers and architects, and resolving complex issues-while also shaping high-level solution architecture. Your expertise will be instrumental as Chubb modernizes its technical landscape, with you playing a key role in leading efforts to incorporate open source and modern technology stacks and driving the integration of legacy and contemporary systems. Building on this foundation and your drive for both high-level architecture and hands-on engineering, you will have the unique opportunity to drive innovation and deliver practical solutions that help shape the future of our technology landscape.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (preferred)
• 10+ years as a solution engineer or architect delivering end-to-end technology solutions for large, complex projects, ideally in property and casualty insurance
• 5+ years working with insurance policy administration systems (Duck Creek, Guidewire, Insurity, Majesco, etc.), with strong understanding of personal lines property and casualty domains
• Proven experience developing enterprise application roadmaps, modularizing and modernizing applications, and adopting microservice architecture models
• Hands-on coding and engineering expertise across C#, Java, Kafka, MQ, JavaScript, Angular, Node.js, Azure, and/or AWS
• Deep knowledge of integration architectures (Service Bus, API Mediation, Event Bus) and underwriting platform architectures from blueprint to implementation
• Skilled in cloud solution design and implementation (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, hybrid models), platform ecosystem development, and information security/risk management
• Ability to abstract and communicate architectural patterns and design decisions to senior audiences (CIO level)

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees