The Role
Leads enterprise and platform architecture for insurance systems, defining target states, reference architectures, technology roadmaps, standards, and governance. Researches emerging technologies, guides solution and development teams, evaluates hardware and software platforms, and ensures implementations align with enterprise strategy. Partners with users, architects, technology teams, and providers to improve platforms, manage risks, and support strategic IT decisions.
Summary Generated by Built In
Position: Enterprise / Platform Architect
About the Role
The successful candidate will perform the leadership, facilitation, analysis, and design tasks required to develop the technical architecture of insurance systems, associated platforms and technologies. This role also defines the roadmap for platforms supporting client’s nominal insurance, Lifetime care and insurance for NSW lines of business. The successful candidate will oversee the design and delivery of solutions to ensure alignment with the approved platform strategies and reference architectures.
Duties
as Enterprise / Platform Architect - Insurance you will:
• Maintain and develop the platform architecture artefacts, including current state, future state, roadmap, patterns, blueprints, and health of the domain landscape ensuring alignment with enterprise architectures and principles.
• Undertake high level research, horizon scanning and analysis to identify future trends, related strategies, policy priorities and issues to support future requirements for the enterprise, its customers and business partners.
• Proactively and regularly engage the frontline users of the in-scope platform/domain technologies to understand and uplift the user experience.
• Collaboratively work with and support the icare technology practice for the platform or domain fostering knowledge sharing, driving excellence, supporting solutions/designs, and ensuring the broader enterprise architecture strategy is being realised at a platform/domain level.
• Where a solution primarily impacts this platform/domain then lead and/or carry out the development of architecture heatmaps, conceptual designs and solution designs including engaging other architects (enterprise, platform, solution) as required.
• As the key knowledge expert, provide platform/domain input into heatmaps and designs developed by other platform and solution architects.
• Provide architectural direction to development teams, participate in project implementations, and monitor and review progress on program and strategies against reference enterprise and platform architecture and strategies.
• Work proactively with internal and external providers to research, evaluate, select, test, and implement hardware and software systems.
• Ensure alignment of solutions delivered by providers, and internal architects with published reference architectures and IT strategies.
• Participate in internal architectural governance forums ensuring appropriate design decisions are made.
• Lead the introduction of new technologies into the organization by clearly understanding the enterprise requirements and running the appropriate technology selection process.
• Provide expert advice and guidance regarding the design and implementation of strategic platforms.
• Identify and analyze IT organizational and sector strategic issues/options and align technology vision with business strategy to guide the development, implementation, and governance of IT strategies.
• Review, analyze and provide input for continuous improvement into IT strategies and systems to provide recommendations on the alignment, risk, financial value, and contribution to organizational priorities
Skills & Experience
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in IT sector
• Minimum 8 years of architecture experience, ideally within the Insurance, Financial Services, and/or Government sector.
• Strong technical knowledge and understanding of platform/domain concepts.
• A broad range of experience with developing IT reference architectures and strategic roadmaps.
• Experience developing strategic roadmaps and technology reference architectures.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and communicating technical standards, policies, and guidelines.
• Broad experience in a wide range of information system technologies and technical architectures.
Skills Required
- Minimum 15 years of experience in the IT sector
- Minimum 8 years of architecture experience
- Experience ideally within the insurance, financial services, and/or government sector
- Strong technical knowledge and understanding of platform and domain concepts
- Experience developing IT reference architectures and strategic roadmaps
- Demonstrated experience developing and communicating technical standards, policies, and guidelines
- Broad experience across information system technologies and technical architectures
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The Company
What We Do
XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd is a technology consulting and software services company serving clients across banking, financial services and insurance, telecommunications, mining, retail, energy, and manufacturing. It provides software development, IT management consulting, business analysis, project and program management, infrastructure support, and offshore development through onsite-offshore delivery. The company also works with cloud computing, big data, mobile applications, UI/UX, algorithms, and IoT.
