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Principal Solutions Architect - Warren New Jersey
Company: Everest Insurance - Location: Warren, New Jersey
Posted On: 05/19/2024
Title: Principal Solutions Architect Company: Everest Global Services, Inc. Job Category: Technology Job Description: About Everest Everest is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider, operating for nearly 50 years through subsidiaries in the Europe, Bermuda, Canada, Singapore, US, and other territories. Our strengths include extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet, and an innovative culture. Throughout our history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focuses on creating long-term value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management. But the most critical asset in this organization is our people. Everest has been a global leader in reinsurance with a broad footprint, deep client relationships, underwriting excellence, responsive service and customized solutions. Our insurance arm draws upon impressive global resources and financial strength to tailor each policy to meet the individual needs of our customers. Our financial strength is evident in Financial Agency Ratings of: A+ A. M. Best, A+ S&P Global and A1 Moody's Investor Service. We are a market leader for our broad diversified income streams, strong underlying underwriting performance with reduced volatility and strong cash flow. We take pride in being known in the industry as nimble, entrepreneurial and responsive About the Role: Everest Group, Ltd. (Everest' or 'the Group') is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to drive the execution of our global technology strategy. In this position, you will apply strong technical acumen and leadership in partnership with business counterparts to effectively define, plan and support delivery of technical solutions that support business outcomes in service to Everest's strategy. This is a hybrid position based at the US headquarters in Warren, New Jersey. working 3 days in the office, 2 days remote. Job Responsibilities: - Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint and design specifications adhering to enterprise architecture standards.
- Collaborate with other solution architects and enterprise/domain architects to ensure solutions are optimized and aligned with Everest's strategic direction.
- Working with development management, continuously review/monitor project implementations and coding patterns to ensure the alignment with the approved solution architecture.
- Working closely with project management and delivery teams to review and mitigate any architecture related issues and risks during project execution and lifecycle
- Create/maintain architecture artifacts and documentation updating when necessary and communicating changes clearly and professionally.
- Maintain software and technology currency by documenting appropriately and artifacts are easily accessible by others within the organization
- Provide expert knowledge of technical and application architecture to the various development teams.
- Manage individual workload and deliver on agreed upon milestones and date commitments.
- Communicate effectively, professionally and routinely to senior managers and the solution architecture team on project progress/status and any major design changes/challenges.
- Use active listening to define architecture and technical needs, and recommend the appropriate solutions based on a strong understanding of technology and business needs.
- Proactively identify and capitalize upon opportunities to share/re-use existing components where possible.
- Identify and communicate business, application and technical risks associated with application implementation.
- Provide technical guidance to the Development Teams during the analysis, development and testing processes.
- Guide the selection of the hardware and software components the applications will use for implementation and provide instruction on how to appropriately implement the application components using the respective hardware and software.
- Collaborate with PMO, BSA and Delivery Lead to develop Cost Basis Analysis.
- Participate in Product/Vendor evaluation and selection process.
- Define, design and initiate proof of concept/technology when appropriate.
- Create and socialize corporate architecture standards and best practices.
- Create and present solutions to Architecture board using pre-defined templates.
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