Xceedance is a global provider of consulting and managed services, technology, and data sciences to insurance organizations. With offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Poland, and India, Xceedance helps insurers launch new products, drive operations, implement technology, and deliver advanced analytics capabilities and process optimization. The experienced insurance professionals at Xceedance enable re/insurers, brokers, and program administrators worldwide to enhance policyholder service, enter new markets, boost workflow productivity, and improve profitability. For more information, visit www.xceedance.com.

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POSITION TITLE  : Duck Creek Solution Architect

CAPABILITY        : Technology and Core Systems

LOCATION          : Global

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY:

This is a technical position that requires 15+ years’ experience in IT combined with strong application design & development skills in Duck Creek Platform. The Solution Architect works very closely with System Owners, Architects, the Agile Teams and Stakeholders to provide architectural direction of a project. Demonstrated experience designing solutions on the Duck Creek platform is required. This position will be responsible for conceptualizing and designing innovative end-to-end solution architectures that enable client’s strategic objectives.  Designs produced must meet both business and non-functional requirements while aligning to standard reference architectures

QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED (INCLUDING KEY COMPETENCIES):

 CORE SKILLS:

•  Knowledge gained through broad or deep experience in designing and implementing robust enterprise level solutions with Duck Creek suite of products – Policy , Claims Billing , Rating and Data Insights.  
• Should be able to orchestrate the core product and other related applications to achieve/ monitor application’s performance milestones. Should well versed with concepts like clustering, replication etc.
• Experience in designing and implementing solutions within the Duck Creek platform, aligning to OOB features and best practices.  
• Ability to drive clear, effective, and innovative solution designs aligning to The DuckCreek reference architectures, blueprints, and business and IT strategies and Enterprise landscape. 
• Deep knowledge of Duck Creek platform from backend i.e., core architecture, features, and limitations. With comparative view on prior versions and latest platform versions(7.1 above)
• Wide experience across various Duck Creek customer-implementations , with diverse flavor on implementation approaches, leveraging  various integration utils or accelerators provided by Duck Creek and/or developing internally .
• Experience with developing reusable assets such as prototypes, solution designs, documentation and other materials that contribute to department and organization effectiveness and efficiency.
• Understanding of DCOD, hybrid cloud, and container deployment architectures including building cloud-ready applications and container orchestration systems (e.g., Kubernetes). Experience designing and implementing API-based integrations with clear understanding of JSON, REST and HTTP standards.  Experience integrating both modern and legacy systems.
• A broad understanding of traditional and modern software technology frameworks, platforms, vendor software solutions, development tools, and processes.
• Experience working with agile development teams, methodologies, and toolsets.
• Experience with DevOps practices including but not limited to continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) concepts and tools, familiarity with automated testing and code analysis tools.
• The incumbent must have strong written and verbal communication, presentation, and technical writing skills with ability to effectively communicate solution recommendations and influence key stakeholders.
• Be a self-motivated individual with strong analytical and research skills; Can handle multiple high priority demands; and can be detail oriented, yet still be able to have clarity on the overall picture.
• Proficiency in designing and developing complex IT systems and assessing and evaluating alternative solutions.
• A strong desire to stay on top of technology trends in the Insurance Industry and Emerging Technology space.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 15+ years’ experience, with relevant Duck Creek experience least of 8+ Years

ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

•  Familiar with business process design concepts and principles.
• Familiarity with insurance products, rules, and methodologies desirable
• Positive attitude
• Good communication skills
• Problem solving skills and capacity to work independently as well as in team
• Ability to mentor and guide architects and developer.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Primary accountability for the position involves establishing and driving clear, effective, and innovative solution designs aligning to The DuckCreek reference architectures, blueprints, and business and IT strategies and Enterprise landscape. 

• Responsible for conceptualizing and designing architectures within the Duck Creek platform that enable strategic initiatives & technology objectives that consider strategic alignment, scale, reliability, security, complexity, and cost.

• Ensuring solutions maximize the use of out of the box Duck Creek capabilities and configuration while limiting customization to the platform.

• Participation with agile teams to ensure architecture standards are being maintained

• End-to-end, cross functional system design in conjunction of Duck Creek products and related integration /automation as desired by client.

• Contribute to the evolving reference architecture and product/technology roadmap, with consideration of client’s IT landscape , and transformation to future state.

• Work with other team members to design solutions with elicitation of product features. Execute Proofs of Concepts to test architectural elements of the core-product and integration.

• Establish and apply standard design/integration patterns including in new/complex situations

• Work with Duck Creek teams and other teams to research, define and execute system optimal design for implementation and integrations.

• Operate with no required supervision in a complex environment and acts independently to take decisions and/or propose alternate design and implementation approaches for moderate and complex business problem.

• Familiar with Joint Application Design (JAD) session, prototyping, Conference Room Pilot (CRP), and similar approaches and principles

• Work closely with the senior technical resources from Duck Creek , Customer, and external partners, to interpret and translate business requirements into a solution technical design.

• Lead Product workshops & discovery ,enabling fit-gap analysis. Be able to simplify technical solution to customer to explain how the components of each applications interact to each other.

• Actively participates in review of configuration of the Policy & billing implementation  approaches, ensuring effective transition of knowledge, design assumptions and development expectations.

• Take a leadership role in developing technical scope, approach, and implementation estimates.

• Collaborates with the client’s product-owner & business to ensure proper understanding of the functional needs and ensure they translate into solution designs.

• Works across the Architecture teams to ensure the application components align with the application architecture and meet application performance goals

• Identifies and address application and data issues that affect application integrity.

• Identifies cross-capability and cross-release issues that affect the business architecture integrity.

• Serves as a trusted advisor of the customer

• Leads and Participates in Conformance Review(s)

• Facilitation experience for conducting demos, discovery sessions, conformance sessions  stakeholder agreement meetings etc.

BENEFITS:

At Xceedance people come first. Our training and development programs are focused on people growth and will help you develop and explore newer skills to bring out the best in you. We have many internal career opportunities – Over the course of your career with us, your goals may shift, and your interests may change. We keep the team informed about new positions and programs that will enable you to explore different opportunities that could help advance your career. We build engaged and motivated teams – Challenge and diversity are a part of our dynamic and interactive environment, which makes each day new and exciting. We strive to introduce new experiences into our work life through our fun at work initiatives, and social activities inside and outside our organization.