Principal Architect

Majesco

23h

About The Position

Majesco is seeking a Principal Solution Architect for Majesco Policy for Life and Annuities product line. Majesco has been identified in the ‘Visionary’ Quadrant as per Gartner’s report for L&A Product vendors in North America. This role involves working closely with business analysts, product owners, and test leads to understand business requirements and solution objectives. The architect will author technical solution architecture/design documents, considering end-to-end solution approaches, functional and non-functional requirements, and the impact on various clients. A key aspect is demonstrating API-first thinking, ensuring designs are modular, performant, secure, reusable, and upgradable. The architect will create extensible designs allowing customers and partners to extend product capabilities and develop templates for team consistency. This role aligns with SAFe Agile processes for project scope ingestion, design specification completion, and accurate estimation. The architect will provide technical oversight as a design authority for multiple products, review and approve architecture changes, lead implementation with hands-on coding where applicable, conduct code reviews, and mentor team members. Participation in Show & Tells, supporting issue analysis and resolution, developing Technical PoCs, and ensuring compliance with industry standards are also key responsibilities. Support for pre-sales activities and providing subject matter expertise on system architecture and integrations is expected.

Requirements

Outstanding communication skills and the ability to connect, resonate, and establish credibility with an array of technical and non-technical stakeholders
Strong design thinking and a pattern-based problem-solving approach
Innate trait to analyze and learn the impact of design and incorporate learnings in future designs.
Passion for reusability, extensibility, and scalability
Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
Innovative thinking to bring in new design approaches and marry them with existing designs and constraints
Strong business acumen with the ability to translate and predict ‘the question behind the question’
Global accessibility as well as the ability to seamlessly work with remote teams
Excitement and passion for leading an emerging technology in the Insurance space
Ability to tackle technical queries and problems with zeal and enthusiasm, helping team to successfully steer towards quality-based solutions.
Minimum 15+ of industry experience, including 7+ years in development & solution architecture for Packaged software (Products) and at least 5+ years in the Life / Group Insurance domain
5+ years of experience in leader the solution design and development (at least at a module level – UW, Claims or similar)
Prior solution architecture experience with another insurance package solution will be a strong advantage
Technical expertise and hands-on development experience in multiple high-level languages such as Java, JavaScript, Hibernate including a strong desire to learn and grow with multiple technologies
Knowledge of integration architecture & protocols - SOA, REST, SOAP, Message Queues as well as interface patterns and typical system integration techniques with and without ESBs
Understanding of the end-to-end technical flow from UI stack to the DB including exposure to databases like SQL Server, PostgreSQL.
Thorough understanding of the end-to-end software development lifecycle
Strong understanding of the non-functional aspects like performance, scalability, and vulnerability/security
Knowledge and working experience of design principles such as SOLID & architecture frameworks such as TOGAF
Experience of working in Agile (SAFe) and Test-Driven Development projects
Is hands on with an inclination to carry the design into code, experience to perform code reviews, and focus to convert any repetitive manual code reviews into automated code reviews
Excellent communication skills and can articulate the solution design to developers and testers but also figuratively create the solution diagrams in tools like Visio/PowerPoint
Excellent interpersonal and client management skills.
Bachelor’s Degree (or global equivalent) in Computer Science or related field

Nice To Haves

Experience in SaaS software is plus
Master’s Degree preferred
SAFe Agilist certification preferred
Exposure to the North American insurance marketplace and business processes is an advantage
Experience of working with packaged software vendors, particularly in the insurance space is an advantage

Responsibilities

Work closely with business analysts, product owners and test leads to understand the business requirements and solution objectives
Authors the technical solution architecture / design documents that outline the data model changes, process changes including whether they are to be done in rules or core logic, UI changes, interface design and other technical components
Consider end-to-end solution approach - functional as well as non-functional, development as well as operating in production, robust for today’s need as well as flexible for future needs and impact on implementing the solution for various clients – for determining best design patterns.
Demonstrate API first thinking in building modular solution designs.
Ensure that the design approach takes into consideration the performance and security aspects, reusability, and upgradability/backward compatibility
Create extensible designs so that customers and partners can extend from the product capabilities and make changes to align with their requirements without impacting the core processing.
Create templates to ensure that the various design considerations are followed across the team for consistency
Work In alignment with SAFe Agile processes to ingest the scope of the project, complete the design specifications and accurately estimate the development timeframe at a user story level
Provide technical oversight as a design authority for multiple products, review and approve proposed architecture related changes from the Engineering team
Lead the implementation of the technical solution, including hands on coding where applicable and ensure the code delivered aligns with the design specifications
Conduct code reviews, provide feedback and be a mentor to others
Work with QC in ensuring the design patterns implemented are covered adequately through test cases
Participate & present in Show & Tells (product demos) to wider audience / customer
Support issue analysis and fix activities during test phases, as well as production issue resolution
Where applicable develop and demonstrate Technical PoC followed by implementing the learnings in the form of quality driven functional code, using architectural patterns
Ensure compliance to organization & industry standard practices
Support pre-sales activities and provide subject matter expertise on system architecture and integrations