Senior Consultant - IT

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to design and architect comprehensive insurance solutions across products, distribution channels, and customer service capabilities.
• Champion lean business cases and drive innovation through proof-of-concepts for new business capabilities.
• Lead solution roadmap development with a focus on measurable business outcomes.
• Demonstrate thought leadership and mentor a team of solution architects and business analysts.
• Collaborate with senior leadership, engineering teams, and product managers to make key architectural decisions aligned with business strategy.
• Stay abreast of emerging business technology trends, evaluating their feasibility and potential impact on our technology stack and architecture.
• Act as a bridge between technology teams and business teams, embedding new digital and automation capabilities into existing systems for improved customer experience.
• Ensure adherence to standards, patterns, data privacy regulations, and best practices across all systems and platforms.
• Publish strategic roadmaps, white papers, and engage peer architects in forming strategies for solving key business imperatives.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects to define standards, design patterns, and evaluate enterprise technologies.
• Articulate strategic initiatives to executive leaders and business unit leaders.
• Participate in talent development, mentoring, and recruiting for architecture and development teams.

Core Skills

• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud for building scalable enterprise solutions.
• Hands-on experience designing and developing Microservices architecture with REST APIs, asynchronous messaging, and integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures using Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS EventBridge.
• Proficiency in AWS Cloud Services, including:
• Compute & Containerization: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda
• Storage & Databases: S3, RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Oracle), DynamoDB
• Networking & Integration: API Gateway, Load Balancer, SNS, SQS, EventBridge
• Security & IAM: IAM, KMS, Cognito, Secrets Manager
• Monitoring & DevOps: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy
• Strong expertise in application security, including OAuth2, JWT, API security, and secure coding practices.
• knowledge of OOPS principles, design patterns, and best practices.

• Good knowledge of application performance monitoring, tuning, and optimization.
• Excellent communication skills with proven client-facing and leadership experience.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and orchestration of containerized Java applications.
• Familiarity with UI frameworks (React, Angular, Bootstrap) for end-to-end solution design.
• Exposure to monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Hands-on knowledge of Agile/DevOps environments with automated testing and continuous delivery.
• Experience in defining enterprise security architecture, covering data privacy, encryption, and compliance standards.

Location:

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

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