Helping careers take flight. Reshaping an industry. Enable you career to be Made on Duck Creek.

WHAT WE ARE ABOUT:

Our global team creates technology solutions that the insurance world has never seen - but really needs. With offices around the globe, our inclusive, innovative teams collaborate to continuously evolve our product offering that world class P&C Insurers build their core systems on – Billing, Claims, Policy, Insights, Reinsurance and more. The team at Duck Creek helps insurance companies bring amazing ideas to life quickly and easily with software that thinks and works like they do.

Duck Creek is proud to be a Remote-First employer, empowering our employees with the choice to work from an office, from home or on a hybrid schedule. Our remote-first environment fosters inclusion, collaboration, and ensures a consistent employee experience regardless of location. We support our employees in making a decision that allows them to be the most productive they can be both at work and at home.

If working in a fast paced, rapidly evolving company that is transforming one of the world’s oldest and largest industries into a standard for innovation and open exchange sounds exciting, let us know. We are excited for your career to be Made on Duck Creek.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

The Principal Software Architect acts as an architecture leader in a domain area in multiple activities and teams. Responsible for the high-level design/architecture decisions and drives continuous improvement of architects across the whole Suite of software products.

• Acts as an architecture leader in a domain area in multiple or all of the following ways:
  • Acts as a Domain Architect for an entire domain area, representing the design/architecture decisions of that domain area.
  • Refines technical backlog items for 3+ project teams in the same domain area.
  • Creation of the overall solution concept or architectural direction for 3+ project teams.
  • Provides guidance and support to the developers of 3+ project teams in the completion of stories against design/architecture plans
  • Represents the design/architecture decisions of 3+ project teams in the same area.
• Drives continuous improvement of architects across the whole Suite
• Participates in pre-sales and customer technical presentations
• Drives and coordinates our technical position with key vendors such as Microsoft
• Creates a conceptual design/architecture for large scale software solutions, working independently.
• Designs, codes, and/or configures solutions for Agile stories with key architectural impact.

WHAT YOU’VE DONE:

• Bachelor’s degree, or higher education level, or its foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Information Sciences, and/or related field;
• Total Work Experience: 20+ years typical (software development), 15 years minimum,
• Product Experience: 12 years minimum, 15+ years preferred
• Domain Experience: 12 years minimum, 15+ years preferred
• Expert knowledge of object-oriented design.
• Expert knowledge of Java or C# language and associated frameworks.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise application architecture patterns and distributed software patterns.
• Expert in relational data storage including database design, query optimization, and database operational considerations.
• Expert in Cloud platforms.
• Expert in XML technologies, especially XML document and schema design, as well as XPath and XSLT.
• Expert in software security best practices.
• Expert in the full-stack of technologies.
• Expert insurance domain knowledge.
• Expert knowledge of at least one of Duck Creek’s products, both technically and how the product meets the needs of the industry.
• Possess excellent analytical ability and be a compulsive problem solver.
• Must have excellent communication skills, both oral and written, to all audiences (technical and non-technical).
• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance to meet deadlines.
• Ability to manage others to deadlines.
• Highly experienced in daily software development activities such as unit testing, source code management, estimation and root cause analysis.
• Travel: 0-20%
• Work Authorization: Legally authorized to work in the country of the job location.
• Physical: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Our global company celebrates & leverages the differences each employee brings to the table. Our success is a direct result of an inclusive culture where opportunities to learn from one another occur regardless of title, seniority or background. This collaborative and team-oriented approach is at the core of how we operate and continuously improve our products, services and systems. As such, Duck Creek is committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and applicants - to recruit, hire, train, and reward employees for their individual abilities, achievements and experience without regard to race, color, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, marital, military, or any other protected status.

Duck Creek Technologies does not accept nor will we pay a fee for any hires resulting from unsolicited headhunter or agency resumes.