Technical Architect

Job Title : Technical Architect

Location : Buffalo, NY & Chicago, IL

Duration : Long Term

Required experience 12 Years

Must haves: Strong Architectural experience with Typescript, PHP, Google Cloud Platform and Azure Cloud.

Job Summary:

• Seeking a highly motivated individual who possesses strong leadership, technical and analytical skills, with an understanding of the wholesale brokerage insurance industry preferred.
• The individual is expected to understand requirements, identify appropriate designs, code to the design specifications to ensure a quality solution delivery.
• Effective collaboration with the business users, IT, and various stakeholders is required. Serves as mentor, advisor, and guide to the team of Developers, Sr Devs, Tech Leads.
• Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Serve as an Architect to design, customize, and implement IT solutions for wholesale brokerage platforms within the organization.
• Maintains familiarity with new development tools and techniques for systems analysis, design, and development.
• Single point of contact for architecture, design, and development for existing stack of applications.
• Develop and review solution architecture, design, and code.
• Ability to review and rationally analyze requirements in a timely manner.
• Research and propose solutions for cloud data transformation, data connections, operational frameworks, and application integration.
• Work closely with lead architects and engineers to create and maintain architectural templates and build/operational documents.
• Work with DevOps and engineering teams to develop service catalogs.
• Lead a large team of Developers, Senior Developers, Tech Leads across various Tech stack.
• Develop an understanding of existing client IT applications while actively searching for improvement areas.
• Streamline workflows and process optimization by implementing inventive technical solutions.
• Engage with stakeholders, updating them on IT development processes and costs.
• Deep hands-on experience with multiple development approaches, pattern and architecture means to implement solution. Collaborating with their team to identify and fix technical problems.
• Work closely with business leads and product owners to understand solution requirements and identify architectural patterns.
• Evaluate existing tech stack and emerging technologies on a regular basis.
• Develop and implement ways to move applications and workloads to the cloud and modernize applications.
• Enhance cloud capability by creating and implementing cloud application patterns.
• Lead and guide development & support teams. Mentor team members. Technical/ functional guidance on the app
• Orchestrate work prioritization, scheduling, and allocation for the rest of the Service Provider team.

Required Skills

Familiarity with a variety of both legacy and modern coding languages, frameworks, and patterns.

Good to have:

• Experience of .Net, SQL, T-SQL, MongoDB, and Java.
• Solid experience working in Agile environment. Both Scrum and Kanban.
• Solid Understanding of Web applications, cloud managed services, service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, microservices, containers, API development and managed databases
• Hands on experience designing and developing new features.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Proven ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Hands on experience with Jira, Confluence, Service Now, ITIL tools and process framework
• Experience presenting and interacting with CXO Level executives.

Required Education/Experience

• Bachelor s Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science