NEWPosted 5 hours ago

Job ID: JOB_ID_8254

About the role:

We are seeking a seasoned Duck Creek Solution Architect to lead end-to-end architecture design and delivery of Duck Creek based solutions across Policy, Billing, and Claims for P&C carriers. You will own the target architecture guide implementation teams and ensure solutions meet business outcomes for scalability performance security and regulatory compliance in the US insurance market.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Architecture Ownership: Define target and interim architectures for Duck Creek Policy Billing and Claims; govern solution integrity across discovery, design, build, and go live.
  • Requirements Road mapping: Translate business LOB needs into scalable solution blueprints, integration designs, data models, and product configuration strategies.
  • Platform Expertise: Lead configuration and extensions using Duck Creek tools (Author Forms, Templates, Anywhere APIs, Producer codes, Rating, Product Studio) ensuring upgrade safe patterns.
  • Integration & Data Design: APIs and event flows; oversee data migration, archival, and reporting architectures, operational data stores, EDW, downstream analytics.
  • Nonfunctional Excellence: Establish performance, availability, resiliency, and DR patterns (caching, throttling, async processing, autoscaling, blue/green, canary).
  • Cloud & DevOps: Define CI/CD pipelines, environment strategy, infrastructure as code, and observability for cloud-native deployments (Azure, AWS).
  • Security & Compliance: Ensure SOC2/ISO27001 controls, privacy, and regulatory alignment (e.g., state DOI rules, UET, AeSignature, PCI for payments).
  • Delivery Leadership: Provide technical leadership to engineers, configuration specialists, BA/QA; review estimates, design docs, and code/config; remove delivery risks.
  • Stakeholder Management: Partner with business leaders, underwriting, claims ops, product owners, and vendor teams; run architecture reviews and exec-level updates.
  • Standards & Reuse: Establish reference architectures, reusable accelerators, best practices, and guardrails for multiprogram scale.
  • Change & Release: Govern release readiness, cutover strategies, hyper care, and post go-live optimization.

Required Qualifications:

  • Experience: 15 years in enterprise software with 8 years designing and delivering Duck Creek solutions (Policy, Billing, Claims) for P&C carriers in the USA.
  • Platform Depth: Hands-on with Duck Creek Author, Product, Rating, Forms, Templates, Anywhere APIs, Pascal, TCF batch, and document services, and upgrade strategies.
  • Insurance Domain: Strong knowledge of US PC products (Personal Auto, Homeowners, Umbrella, Commercial Auto, GL, BOP, Property) rating, ISO filings, endorsements, compliance, and bureau updates.
  • Architecture Skills: Proven track record with microservices, API-led integration, event-driven designs, 12-factor apps, and domain-driven design.
  • Cloud & DevOps: Production experience on Azure and/or AWS (infrastructure as code – ARM/Bicep, Terraform; containerization – Docker, Kubernetes; CI/CD – Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins; observability – App Insights, CloudWatch, ELK).

Primary Skills (Must Have):

  • Duck Creek Suite: Policy, Billing, Claims, Author, Rating, Forms, Templates, Anywhere APIs, batch processing, product configuration, product modeling.
  • Programming/Config: Duck Creek Author, TCF, C#, .NET, JSON/XML, JavaScript for UI customizations where applicable.
  • Integration: REST/SOAP APIs, API Gateways (Kong, Apigee, Azure API Management), event streaming (Kafka), webhooks, SSO (SAML/OIDC).
  • Cloud/Containers: Azure AKS, ACR, Key Vault, App Gateway, Storage, Docker, Kubernetes.
  • DevOps: Git branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, artifact version management, automated testing, feature flags.
  • Security: AppSec and cloud security best practices, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, audit logging.
  • Data: SQL Server performance tuning, indexing, data migration, archival strategies, reporting feeds for BI analytics.

Required Qualifications (Ecosystem):

  • Ecosystem Integration: Payment gateways, document generation (e.g., Smart Communications, Thunderhead, Ghost Draft), e-signature (DocuSign), address validation, fraud, rating engines (ISO/AAIS), content.
  • Enterprise Tools: MuleSoft, Boomi, Azure Integration Services, BPM/Workflow, RPA for operational efficiency.
  • Analytics & Reporting: Snowflake, Databricks, Power BI, event sourcing patterns.

Soft Skills:

  • Leadership & Influence: Ability to drive technical decisions across cross-functional teams and vendor partners; coach and mentor engineers and product teams.
  • Communication: Translate complex technical concepts for executives and non-technical stakeholders; produce clear architecture docs and diagrams.
  • Stakeholder Management: Facilitate workshops, negotiate tradeoffs, and build consensus across underwriting, claims, finance, and compliance.

Special Requirements

Onsite

Compensation & Location

Salary: $120,000 – $160,000 per year (Estimated)

Location: Milwaukee, WI

Recruiter / Company – Contact Information

Email: thoshg@vbeyond.com

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