Remote Insurance Enterprise Architect

Summary

Endava is seeking an Insurance Enterprise Architect to join their insurance industry vertical team. The successful candidate will have at least 10 years of experience in the insurance industry, with a strong understanding of technology, stakeholder management, presales, sales presentations, and post-sales. Responsibilities include working alongside Endava and Client Enterprise & Solution Architects to analyze, define, and refine architecture outputs, actively shaping the scope, requirements, and technical approach of projects, proactively reviewing customer solutions and proposing improvements, and building relationships with key stakeholders on client engagements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 10 years of insurance industry expertise
• Strong team player with a collaborative attitude who can play a central role within our new industry-aligned activities
• Strong experience in aligning technology strategy with business strategy, developing and executing strategies and architectures in large corporate environments
• Practical experience in architecture within the insurance industry, including but not limited to capability mapping, application architectures, and establishing architectural principles
• Experience in large enterprises working alongside architecture and agile teams, centers of excellence, infrastructure, and cross-functional operations teams
• Ability to work with our sales and account teams to shape the Endava response to stakeholder needs, interests, areas of opportunity
• Strong experience in aligning technology strategy with business strategy
• Ability to become a trusted advisor to senior technical stakeholders (up to C-level)
• Good understanding of various agile delivery models
• Excellent soft skills, particularly in client and stakeholder expectation management
• Highly articulate and literate, with excellent written and spoken English
• Commercial acumen in presenting strong business cases for change
• Ability to maintain initiative and focus during negotiations
• High levels of ownership and ability to work across functions to ensure good client outcomes
• Experience in one or more of the following of areas: London markets, personal lines, commercial lines, brokerage, and reinsurance
• Experience with architecture domains (e.g., security applications, data, infrastructure, data security), architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, MODAF, Zachman), and modern design practices (e.g., Domain-Driven Design, event-driven architecture, microservices, API-led architecture, Cloud architecture). Recent and hands-on experience is a distinct advantage
• Experience with a variety of modern software development practices and operating environments such as DevOps and cloud computing

Responsibilities

• Work alongside Endava and Client Enterprise & Solution Architects to analyze, define, and refine architecture outputs
• Understand and translate customer business goals and objectives and reflect these appropriately by defining future-state technology and architecture roadmaps and proposals
• Actively shape the scope, requirements, and technical approach of projects
• Proactively review customer solutions and propose improvements and strategic direction in view of client goals
• Working with commercial and sales management to shape and pitch strategic engagements to client stakeholders
• Build relationships with key stakeholders on client engagements

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with programming languages (e.g. Java, .Net, Python) is highly desirable
• Experience with insurance platforms (e.g. Guidewire, Duck Creek, ISC) is highly desirable

Benefits

• Opportunity to work in an exciting and growing high-tech Global Organization
• Career Development opportunities
• Work/Life balance is the heart of culture
• Like to Travel? Great! We have over 51 offices in 49 cities, within 24 different countries
• Endava provides competitive full salary packages
• Personal and Professional growth with continued training opportunities
• Robust healthcare and benefits including Medical, Dental, vision, Disability coverage, and various other benefit options
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Medical, Transit, and Dependent Care)
• Employer Paid Life Insurance and AD&D Coverages
• Health Savings account paired with our low-cost High Deductible Medical Plan
• 401(k) Retirement plan with employer match and no vesting schedule
• Need incentives to stay healthy? We offer Wellness Benefits & Gym reimbursements
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Wellness Benefit