VP, Solutions Architect

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a leading global insurance organization. AIG member companies provide a wide range of property casualty insurance in approximately 70 countries and jurisdictions. These diverse offerings include products and services that help businesses and individuals protect their assets and manage risks.

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Global architecture team with the right architecture-based competencies and all the industry-standard / the above-said emerging technology-based skill sets, is here to help AIG to thrive to give a complete meaning for successful delivery execution. Along with collaborating with regional architects across the global, architecture team build strategies and road map, product evaluation, creating reference architectures, new technology & framework evaluations etc., We also religiously follow the Architecture Governance, within the region, by strongly adopting not only the architecture standard processes, but we do also follow Security Architecture, Technology Risk & Controls, Risk Assessment, Technology on-boarding processes etc.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Solutions Architect to join our Global architecture team. Reporting to the Head of North America Solution Architect, Senior solution architect will play a crucial role and be responsible for driving systems architecture towards to an end-state vision that modernizes, transforms and simplifies the General insurance Underwriting systems landscape.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with business stakeholders to understand requirements and align solutions with business goals

• Responsible for developing solution architectures for complex systems, ensuring consistency with IT target architecture while aligning to the business requirements.

• Understand the current North America underwriting landscape problems and business priorities to facilitate the development of a holistic roadmap.

• Communicates the architecture objectives to business and IT stakeholders and consults during the development of requirements. Provides oversight throughout design implementations into the productive solution.

• Ensure the solution meets functional, non-functional and regulatory requirements especially in insurance domain.

• Designs the overall architecture that includes system, components, application, data and infrastructure ensuring it aligns with enterprise standards in the organization

• Presentations to Business Partners that clearly defines the technology solutions aligning to the business requirements.

• Deals with cross domain challenges, ensuring different components work together as a cohesive system

Core Responsibilities include

Focuses heavily on designing solutions to demonstrate how technology supports business outcomes and work closely with non-technical teams

Responsible for bridging the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders

Utilizes knowledge across multiple technology domains like software, infrastructure, integration, security and collaborates with horizontal technical/application and platform architects

• 8+ years of experience as solution architect, delivering solutions for large and complex projects. Experience working with insurance platforms including COTS products Duck creek, Guidewire is a significant advantage.

• Strong knowledge of IT architecture principles, enterprise frameworks, and various technology platforms combined with the ability to develop architecture strategies using reference architectures, domain architecture patterns and technology frameworks.

• Ideal candidates should have a strong understanding of the insurance industry, particularly Property & Casualty as well as hands on experience of architecting, solution and tuning insurance platforms.

• The ability to understand business requirements and convert them into technology solution specifications and create a blueprint for development and integration team to follow.

• Experience in design cloud-based solutions (AWS, Azure) and implementation of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and hybrid models. Strong Knowledge of Cloud architecture patterns, principles and best practices and emerging technology in insurance industry.

• Experience in MuleSoft, AWS integration patterns, Spring boot framework, Java, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, Angular, AI/ML solutions.

• Technical certifications TOGAF, AWS solution architect is highly valued.

• Able to monitor market trends and to guide on the future technologies and capabilities to help business value at AIG

• Strong communication and presentation skills

For positions based in New Jersey, the base salary range is $126,000 - $171,000 and the position is eligible for a bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable incentive plan. In addition, we’re proud to offer a range of competitive benefits, a summary of which can be viewed here: US Benefits Overview.

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