Specification of technologies, application architectures and data structures as a basis for application change for internal assets.
Producing quality, secure, scalable, high-performing, and resilient designs for new or improved services.
Led the systems analysts, developers, and testers in sympathetic change to the applications.
Monitor change and perform reviews as needed.
For internal assets, support Application Managers to develop and maintain the Product Roadmap.
Define and maintain development standards such as system and data design, coding, etc.
Maintain a capacity plan with historical performance metrics, a future forecast, and a capacity model to ensure services and infrastructure deliver performance and growth targets in a cost-effective and proactive manner.
Manage architecture exceptions for the application, including identifying, documenting, taking through an exception approval process, and remediation where and when possible.
Monitor application services to ensure performance consistently meets non-functional requirements (response time, security, etc.) .
Work with the Application Manager in defining, analyzing, planning, measuring and improving product availability and continuity.
Leads the DevOps team and developers in targeted use of DevOps for their application platform assets.
Required Skills and Abilities:
Uphold technical integrity of internal assets at the logical and physical level, ensuring designs and changes are done based on an effective architectural foundation.
Experience leading and mentoring development and architecture professionals.
Lead the analysts and developers in sympathetic technical change to the product.
Assist in identifying proactive maintenance work.
Develop, own and publish the product technical architecture and design documentation.
Identify technical resources required to deliver the service and maintain plans for the short-, mid-, and long-term to support business cases for technical investments (upgrades, etc.).
Translates the high-level designs into the technical specifications to facilitate efficient and effective development and unit testing.
Must be able to set priorities and multi-task.
Proficiency with multiple application delivery models including Agile, iterative and waterfall.
Prior work experience in an insurance or technology field preferred.
Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures, etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.
Desired Skills and Abilities:
Advanced skills in developing tools, frameworks and processes intended to maximize software quality and minimize time-to-delivery.
Ability to mentor and guide developers on software architecture.
Solid understanding of contemporary systems.
Expert-level experience with more than one key technology.
May require expertise in commercial applications (ex: PeopleSoft, MS Dynamics).
Bachelor s degree in the field of computer science, information systems, business management, or a related field preferred.
