Job Description - Solution Architect (16000888D20240910)
Job Number:
16000888D20240910
Location:
London, UK
We invent the new to help the world move forward. Combining powerful analytics and deeper insights with bigger ideas and innovative solutions, we free up our clients’ potential, thereby fulfilling our own. Take it seriously. Make it fun. Know it matters.
As we develop an enterprise-wide data and digital strategy that moves us toward greater focus on the use of data and data-driven insights, we are seeking a Data & Digital Solutions Architect. The Data & Digital Solutions Architect is a hands-on, execution focused role helping translate the data and digital strategy to architecture and to execution. In this role you will have an understanding of our data and analytical systems at a granular level, and function as organizational data and digital architecture subject matter expert for our various projects.
Your expertise in Discrete Data, API & Modular Design will help guide solutions for: distributed, domain-driven, event-driven and microservices data architectures; enterprise and canonical data models for data domains and events; mediating event, API and microservices communication; reusable common data and digital services (e.g. document management, OCR, NLP, search); and internal and external consumption of our API’s and personalized experiences.
Key Responsibilities:
Understanding of AXA XL’s existing architecture
Understand user requirements (desired output & outcome) and existing environments (current state), and translate these into an architecture and road map
Collaborate with customers, analysts, other architects, modelers, developers, testers, partners and vendors
Guide the full lifecycle of a Solution, including:
Understand the Business Capabilities that are required and translate this to Technical Capabilities and Solution Architecture
Assist the customer (and business solutions analysts) to define and declare non-functional requirements for building out solution capabilities
Design AXA XL’s architecture and solutions to meet business requirements in a manner that balances architectural standards, implementation and operational risks, with restricted parameters such as budget and time
Document solution interactions and relationships, along with basic infrastructure and application onboarding requirements
Assist in the creation of cost estimates including implementation as well as total cost of ownership
Ensure the future-state solutions have been fully vetted, are performant and scalable, enable agility, can be supported, are cost effective and highly available, and meet the robust needs of the business
Ensure security by design to meet Information Security policies, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Regulatory requirements, and industry best practice
Assess vendor tools based on required capabilities, future capabilities, and architecture drivers, and document justification for tool selection
Be hands on to demonstrate tools, patterns, security, performance, scalability, etc. in a lab environment when necessary
Work with quality assurance team to ensure the testing approach is appropriate for the given architecture and solution
Lead design reviews (pre-development) and implementation reviews (post-development) to ensure principles and standards are followed, and that technical debt is managed
Create a feedback loop for those who are implementing and interacting with the solutions
Participate in the definition of adoption and experience metrics for the solution to measure the success of the solution
Present architecture decisions, explain the end-to-end solution, educate others how they can contribute, and provide guidance on tool usage
Extract best-practice knowledge, reference architectures, and patterns for sharing with the broader community of Architects at AXA XL and/or AXA Group
Document cost and performance metrics for different design patterns, and provide project teams the ability to decide the most appropriate pattern for their requirements, timeline, and budget
Participate in the definition and maintenance of Architecture principles and artifacts
Engage with tool vendors on their roadmaps and appropriate usage of their tools
Engage with industry experts to validate the architecture and designs, and understand industry trends
Document data flow and storage mechanisms and provide examples to data developers when necessary
Work with data modelers to ensure modeling approach is appropriate for the given data architecture and solution
Good to have experience with enterprise API and Event driven architecture
Required Skills:
Receive general direction with clear accountability
Guide and mentor project & team colleagues and provides advice on strategic issues
Work on complex issues/problems or assignments of large scope, impact, and importance where business acumen, leadership or ingenuity are required to maintain strategic alignment
Resolve problems requiring application of advanced skill, training and education
Well established experience within relevant architecture roles
Possess broad insurance and deep architecture expertise and knowledge
Understand & be able to communicate business problems & technical solutions in appropriate terminology
Awareness & consideration of business dynamics/political sensitivities
Excellent presentation, communication (oral & written), and relationship building skills, across all levels of management
Strong Organizational skills with attention to detail and ability to handle change
Excellent problem solving and analysis skills
Must be able to work well under pressure and consistently meet deadlines
Ability to work as part of a team or to be self-directed as required
Practiced at working as part of a global team (including outsourcing) spanning multiple time zones
Knowledge and active use of Agile, SCRUM and Continuous Delivery
Understand cultural differences and be effective working in a diverse environment
Passion for learning and prepared to go the “extra mile”
You care about what you do, and what we do
Passion for data and experience working within a data driven organization
Hands-on experience with architecting, implementing, and performance tuning of:
Data Lake technologies (e.g. Delta Lake, Parquet, Spark, Databricks)
API & Microservices
Message queues, streaming technologies, and event driven architecture
NoSQL databases and query languages
Data domain and event data models
Data Modelling
Logging and monitoring
Container and Container Orchestration
UX and UI
Azure cloud platform environment
Data access control and security
Integration and Data Pipeline/ETL/ELT technologies
DevOps and CI/CD
AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
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Job Number:
16000888D20240910
Location:
London, UK
We invent the new to help the world move forward. Combining powerful analytics and deeper insights with bigger ideas and innovative solutions, we free up our clients’ potential, thereby fulfilling our own. Take it seriously. Make it fun. Know it matters.
As we develop an enterprise-wide data and digital strategy that moves us toward greater focus on the use of data and data-driven insights, we are seeking a Data & Digital Solutions Architect. The Data & Digital Solutions Architect is a hands-on, execution focused role helping translate the data and digital strategy to architecture and to execution. In this role you will have an understanding of our data and analytical systems at a granular level, and function as organizational data and digital architecture subject matter expert for our various projects.
Your expertise in Discrete Data, API & Modular Design will help guide solutions for: distributed, domain-driven, event-driven and microservices data architectures; enterprise and canonical data models for data domains and events; mediating event, API and microservices communication; reusable common data and digital services (e.g. document management, OCR, NLP, search); and internal and external consumption of our API’s and personalized experiences.
Key Responsibilities:
Understanding of AXA XL’s existing architecture
Understand user requirements (desired output & outcome) and existing environments (current state), and translate these into an architecture and road map
Collaborate with customers, analysts, other architects, modelers, developers, testers, partners and vendors
Guide the full lifecycle of a Solution, including:
Understand the Business Capabilities that are required and translate this to Technical Capabilities and Solution Architecture
Assist the customer (and business solutions analysts) to define and declare non-functional requirements for building out solution capabilities
Design AXA XL’s architecture and solutions to meet business requirements in a manner that balances architectural standards, implementation and operational risks, with restricted parameters such as budget and time
Document solution interactions and relationships, along with basic infrastructure and application onboarding requirements
Assist in the creation of cost estimates including implementation as well as total cost of ownership
Ensure the future-state solutions have been fully vetted, are performant and scalable, enable agility, can be supported, are cost effective and highly available, and meet the robust needs of the business
Ensure security by design to meet Information Security policies, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Regulatory requirements, and industry best practice
Assess vendor tools based on required capabilities, future capabilities, and architecture drivers, and document justification for tool selection
Be hands on to demonstrate tools, patterns, security, performance, scalability, etc. in a lab environment when necessary
Work with quality assurance team to ensure the testing approach is appropriate for the given architecture and solution
Lead design reviews (pre-development) and implementation reviews (post-development) to ensure principles and standards are followed, and that technical debt is managed
Create a feedback loop for those who are implementing and interacting with the solutions
Participate in the definition of adoption and experience metrics for the solution to measure the success of the solution
Present architecture decisions, explain the end-to-end solution, educate others how they can contribute, and provide guidance on tool usage
Extract best-practice knowledge, reference architectures, and patterns for sharing with the broader community of Architects at AXA XL and/or AXA Group
Document cost and performance metrics for different design patterns, and provide project teams the ability to decide the most appropriate pattern for their requirements, timeline, and budget
Participate in the definition and maintenance of Architecture principles and artifacts
Engage with tool vendors on their roadmaps and appropriate usage of their tools
Engage with industry experts to validate the architecture and designs, and understand industry trends
Document data flow and storage mechanisms and provide examples to data developers when necessary
Work with data modelers to ensure modeling approach is appropriate for the given data architecture and solution
Good to have experience with enterprise API and Event driven architecture
Required Skills:
Receive general direction with clear accountability
Guide and mentor project & team colleagues and provides advice on strategic issues
Work on complex issues/problems or assignments of large scope, impact, and importance where business acumen, leadership or ingenuity are required to maintain strategic alignment
Resolve problems requiring application of advanced skill, training and education
Well established experience within relevant architecture roles
Possess broad insurance and deep architecture expertise and knowledge
Understand & be able to communicate business problems & technical solutions in appropriate terminology
Awareness & consideration of business dynamics/political sensitivities
Excellent presentation, communication (oral & written), and relationship building skills, across all levels of management
Strong Organizational skills with attention to detail and ability to handle change
Excellent problem solving and analysis skills
Must be able to work well under pressure and consistently meet deadlines
Ability to work as part of a team or to be self-directed as required
Practiced at working as part of a global team (including outsourcing) spanning multiple time zones
Knowledge and active use of Agile, SCRUM and Continuous Delivery
Understand cultural differences and be effective working in a diverse environment
Passion for learning and prepared to go the “extra mile”
You care about what you do, and what we do
Passion for data and experience working within a data driven organization
Hands-on experience with architecting, implementing, and performance tuning of:
Data Lake technologies (e.g. Delta Lake, Parquet, Spark, Databricks)
API & Microservices
Message queues, streaming technologies, and event driven architecture
NoSQL databases and query languages
Data domain and event data models
Data Modelling
Logging and monitoring
Container and Container Orchestration
UX and UI
Azure cloud platform environment
Data access control and security
Integration and Data Pipeline/ETL/ELT technologies
DevOps and CI/CD
AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
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