Technical Architect - Billing

Company: XL CATLIN
Location: Hartford
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

Job Description - Technical Architect - GuidewireJob Number:25AAOT81D20241209Location: Hartford, CT - Stamford, CT - USAThe Technical Architect role is the lead technologist for a product or platform. Technical Architects perform deliverable reviews and manage measurement of deliverable quality within the Delivery Team.Essential Responsibilities

• Specification of technologies, application architectures and data structures as a basis for application change for internal assets.
• Producing quality, secure, scalable, high-performing, and resilient designs for new or improved services.
• Lead the systems analysts, developers, and testers in sympathetic change to the applications.
• For internal assets, support Application Managers to develop and maintain the Product Roadmap.
• Define and maintain development standards such as system and data design, coding, etc.
• Maintain a capacity plan with historical performance metrics, a future forecast, and a capacity model to ensure services and infrastructure deliver performance and growth targets in a cost effective and proactive manner.
• Manage architecture exceptions for the application, including identifying, documenting, taking through exception approval process, and remediation where and when possible.
• Monitor application services to ensure performance consistently meets non-functional requirements (response time, security, etc.).
• Work with the Application Manager & Delivery Lead(s) in defining, analyzing, planning, measuring and improving product availability and continuity.
• Leads the DevOps team and developers in targeted use of DevOps for their application platform assets.Required Skills and Abilities
  • A moderate amount of Cloud based insurance applications (Ex. Guidewire, DuckCreek, etc.) and DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and containerization.
  • Demonstrated experience in billing and payment solutions within the insurance domain, including integration with external applications.
  • Ability to break down complex problems, evaluate multiple solutions & choose the most suitable outcome based on tradeoffs.
  • Uphold technical integrity of internal assets at the logical and physical level, ensuring designs and changes done based on an outstanding architectural foundation.
  • Deep understanding of enterprise integration patterns (API, middleware and/or data migration).
  • Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, product owners, and operations to ensure alignment on technical goals and priorities.
  • Develop, own and publish the product technical architecture and design documentation.
  • Identify technical resources required to deliver the service and maintain plans for the short-, mid-, and long-term to support business cases for technical investments (upgrades, etc.).
  • Translates the high-level designs into the technical specifications to facilitate efficient and effective development and unit testing.
  • Proficiency with multiple application delivery models including Agile, iterative and waterfall.
  • Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures, etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.
  • Advanced skills in developing tools, frameworks and processes intended to maximize software quality and minimize time-to-delivery.
  • Bachelor's degree in the field of computer science, information systems, business management, or a related field preferred.The U.S. pay range for this position is $106,500 - $186,500. Actual pay will be determined based upon the individual's skills, experience, and location.AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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