Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced and certified Enterprise Architect with deep domain expertise in General Insurance and Motor Insurance. The ideal candidate has a strong background in legacy transformation, cloud-native architecture, API-led modernization, and multi-team and phase delivery governance – with the ability to connect business vision to architecture roadmaps and ensure consistent implementation across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and govern modernization roadmap for transforming legacy platforms into modular, service-oriented, cloud-ready architectures.
- Provide architecture direction across multiple delivery squads during modernization.
- Ensure cross-squad and cross-phase alignment through consistent API, data, cloud, security and integration standards.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, solution architects, and development teams to ensure solutions meet enterprise architecture guidelines.
- Provide architecture oversight and governance across the delivery lifecycle, ensuring compliance with business and technical standards.
- Lead architecture assessments, capability modeling, and gap analysis within the General and Motor Insurance domains.
- Lead business capability mapping and value-stream alignment to ensure the modernization roadmap reflects real business priorities.
- Design future-state architectures that support core insurance processes such as policy administration, claims management, underwriting, and customer engagement.
- Evaluate modernization-enabling technologies (modern integration patterns, domain-driven approaches, modularization).
- Define modernization sequencing, transition states, and coexistence architecture.
- Establish and run architecture governance forums (ARB, ADA) to ensure compliance across multiple streams.
- Produce architecture decisions, reference models, and modernization guidelines consumable by delivery squads.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Hands-on experience as an Enterprise Architect with direct involvement in General Insurance and Motor Insurance projects.
- Strong understanding of insurance core systems, digital channels, and industry regulations.
- Experience with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and tools (e.g., ArchiMate, Sparx EA).
- Certified Enterprise Architect (e.g., TOGAF Certified or equivalent).
- Certified in AWS: Solution Architect (or equivalent).
- Proven ability to design and implement enterprise-grade solutions in complex environments.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of insurance standards (e.g., BNM, ISM).
- Experience with coexistence architecture or multi-phase modernization involving both legacy and modern platforms.
- Familiarity with modern architecture paradigms (e.g., microservices, API-led integration, cloud-native design).
- Experience with legacy system modernization in the insurance sector.