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Sr Architect

Sr Architect

TekWissen LLCWorcester, Massachusetts, USA
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Overview :

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.

Job Title : Sr Architect

Work Location : Worcester MA 01653

Job Type : Temp to Perm

Work Type : Hybrid

Duration : 6 Months

Job Description :

Responsibilities / Essential Functions :

  • At an expert level the Senior Architect is responsible for :
  • Strategic planning and road mapping activities particularly for Guidewire Policy Center implementations.
  • Driving technology and thought leadership across technical projects involving Guidewire applications.
  • Ensuring project documentation for the Architecture Review Board including Technical Approach and Technical Design.
  • Managing the tenants of the projects architecture (business application information and technology architecture).
  • Promoting reuse of technologies and processes across technical projects.
  • Developing reference architecture compliance rules and principles for use across the portfolio and sharing them across the enterprise.
  • Managing technical risk for all technical decisions and any platform dependencies.
  • Leading the evaluation process of the architecture components of the project.
  • Planning and integrating new technologies into projects for effective execution.
  • Communicating enterprise application platform vision and strategy for software architecture and application capabilities software platforms and shared solutions.
  • Ensuring software portfolio conformance within the division (Get Current / Stay Current).
  • Mentoring Solution and Senior Solution Architects to further their growth.

Key Measures of Success :

  • Delivering technical design and approach.
  • Providing position statements and solution patterns.
  • Measurable roadmaps with clear milestones

    • Required Skills & Competencies and Experience :

    Skills :

  • At an expert level uses core solution architecture skills :
  • Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork facilitation and negotiation.
  • Excellent planning facilitation and organizational skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to understand the long-term (big picture) and short-term perspectives of situations.
  • Ability to translate business needs into solution architecture requirements.
  • Ability to estimate the financial impact of individual solution architecture alternatives.
  • Ability to define multiple solution options to business problems.
  • Knowledge of key aspects of client s business.
  • Expert knowledge of information principles and policies.
  • Understanding of application development methodologies.
  • Understanding of SOA object-oriented analysis and design or client / server systems.
  • Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.

    • Competencies :

  • Conceptualization : Visualize the solution process or infrastructure required to satisfy the business requirement.
  • Innovation : Improve organizational performance through the exploration and introduction of new opportunities that add to the business value proposition or reduce costs.
  • Results-driven Attitude : Deliver appropriate solutions based on Enterprise Architecture principles and compliance rules within required timeframes.
  • Enterprise Perspective : Understand the broader implications of strategy across all business units while visualizing the project-level implications.
  • Foresight : Manage short-term medium-term and long-term planning horizons concurrently.
  • Consensus Building : Enable a group of people with diverse backgrounds to accept a majority or common conclusion without damaging relationships.
  • Facilitation : Guide a debate without forcing a conclusion while ensuring all participants have an opportunity to voice ideas and opinions.
  • Leadership : Influence a broad audience to adopt a particular path and be respected as a leader regardless of position / role in the organization.
  • Logic : Select the best solution from a range of options to resolve an issue or seize an opportunity.
  • Communication : Effectively convey the results of the architecture the process to develop it and the value it provides by demonstrating the applicability of technology to the business.

    • Experience :

  • Bachelors degree in computer science system analysis or a related field or equivalent experience.
  • Minimum of 10 years in the industry with at least 5 years as a Senior Solution Architect with increasing development responsibility.
  • Exposure to multiple diverse business systems technologies and processing environments.
  • Solution design and development experience.
  • Specific experience with Guidewire Insurance Suite Policy Center application.
  • Experience with GW PC cloud migration data integration APIs MFA SSO and performance tuning.
  • Insurance Industry & Product Knowledge :

    • Broad understanding of Property / Casualty systems & applications.

  • Understanding of how changes / updates affect not only the specific domain but also other systems in the assigned business unit.

    • TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

    Key Skills

    APIs,Pegasystems,Spring,SOAP,.NET,Hybris,Solution Architecture,Service-Oriented Architecture,Adobe Experience Manager,J2EE,Java,Oracle

    Employment Type : Full-time

    Experience : years

    Vacancy : 1

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