Max Life Insurance - Solution Architect - Cloud Computing

About the Company :

As a Solution Architect, you are part of Enterprise Architecture team focusing on driving innovation, improving delivery effectiveness and enhancing the overall business agility.

About the Role :

You will be responsible for building hybrid solutions with seamless integrations across multiple IT components on-premises and on-cloud.

You bring deep technical expertise in designing and delivering end to end high performance, scalable & flexible solutions using cutting edge/emerging technologies including Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS and Containerization), Mobility/Responsive Web apps, APIs, microservices, data Integration and DevOps.

You work with the direction from Senior Solution Architect and Enterprise Architect to co-create solutions with the rest of the IT delivery teams.

Responsibilities :

- Provide technical expertise in solving/troubleshooting performance & other non-functional requirements.

- Design integrations and patterns in accordance with architectural standards and drive changes to standards, policies and procedures based on input from service managers and service partners.

- Support critical projects in all phases of delivery on a need basis.

- Review Application, Integration and Solution Architecture to analyze the current IT ecosystem and develop opportunities for improvements.

- Experiment, explore and demonstrate application of new technologies by means of conducting quick prototypes to solve business problems.

- Maintain good technical relationship with partners (Banca/broker/aggregators/vendors) technical teams.

Other Responsibilities :

- Stakeholder management at strategic levels in both technical and business functions.

- Focus on continuous service improvement and thought leadership, drive strategic initiatives to help business and partners to achieve their goals.

Measures of Success :

- Faster, better and cheaper delivery of applications via technology.

- Exceptional user(internal/external) experience, automation and operational efficiency by adoption of new cutting edge technology solutions to solve business problems.

- Trusted partnership with other departments of IT and business.

- Stay up to date with emerging technologies, industry trends and best practices.

Qualifications :

- 9+ years of designing solution and technical architectures with hands-on software development background.

- 7+ years of experience in applications migration to cloud i.e. AWS, Azure etc., building JSON/REST API integrations, Application and Data Integration Stacks IIB, API Connect, Datapower, Informatica, AWS services.

- Should have architected and delivered at least 2-3 hybrid projects in a technology organization.

- Experience in presenting solutions architecture to peers and senior management.

- Should be working or should have worked with reputed organizations or startups.

Required Skills :

- At least 2 years of designing hybrid cloud applications and migrate existing workloads to the cloud.

- Able to recommend the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database or security requirements.

- Demonstrated competency with application and data integration platforms (Mulesoft, Apigee, EDW, etc.) and patterns SOA, APIs, Webservices, Microservices, ETL, Event Processing, BPM, ESB.

- Understanding of BFSI domain, Open Architecture and application integration discipline, concepts and best practices.

- Define cost control mechanisms by suggesting architectural changes & optimizing resource utilization.

- Any prior experience on Implementation of AI, Data Analytics will be a plus.

Preferred Skills :

- Should be working or should have worked with reputed organizations or startups.