Physicians Mutual Insurance Company

What you will do:Responsible for cohesive, compliant and scalable system architecture and integration of enterprise business systems.Possessing a mastery of solution architecture, software design, and industry best practice, this role is responsible for all aspects of system design and architecture.Establishes the architecture runway ahead of agile teams, ensuring enabling capabilities are identified and planned to maximize the sustained velocity of agile teams.Effectively communicates design artifacts and roadmaps to ensure technical direction is clear and actionable while holding to lean principles and evolutionary design.Ensures architectural governance and oversight as a member of the Architecture Review Board.Researches, identifies, vets, and recommends third party technology products and services for projects based on risk, security and efficacy towards the desired business outcome in partnership with key stakeholders. The position requires staying current on industry trends, technological advancements, and best practices to maximize opportunities and minimize threats to our business.

ABOUT THE JOB

Job Requirements:Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or relevant discipline with 12+ years of total IT experience OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or relevant discipline with 10+ years of total IT experience. 6+ years performing solution design & system integration.Experience guiding multiple agile development teams and establishing an architecture runway ahead of development.Strong background ground in software engineering.A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business, corporate strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and architectural governance.Deep experience working with multiple programming languages in accordance with modern full-stack development such as Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, bash scripts, Groovy are preferred.Mastery of Domain Driven Design and microservice architecture, able to architect and design technology solutions using REST API design, Event-driven architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, C4 Modeling, Microservices, containerized workloads (i.e. Docker), relational database design, No-SQL database, caching strategies and frameworks.Able to perform design and development for proof of concepts and platform enablement using high-level programming languages, design patterns, and best practices for full stack development using ReactJS (preferred), AngularJS, Java (preferred), .NET or similar language full stack programming.Skilled in cloud-native architecture and design with AWS (preferred), or similar experience in Azur or GCP will be considered.Strong knowledge of event driven architecture using AWS SQS/SNS or Kafka or similar messaging and topic-based platforms. Strong experience architecting as part of Agile software development methodologies, such as the Scaled Agile Framework (preferred), Scrum, XP, or Kanban.Ability to provide guidance or direction to other team members.Ability to provide reasonable estimates and work task definition.Ability to communicate effectively with business and technical staff.Nice to have:MS degree in Computer Science or relevant discipline.Insurance Industry knowledge.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for cohesive, compliant, and scalable system architecture and integration of enterprise business systems.
• Establishes the architecture runway ahead of agile teams, ensuring enabling capabilities are identified and planned.
• Effectively communicates design artifacts and roadmaps to ensure technical direction is clear and actionable.
• Ensures architectural governance and oversight as a member of the Architecture Review Board.
• Researches, identifies, vets, and recommends third-party technology products and services for projects.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or relevant discipline with 12+ years of total IT experience OR Master's Degree with 10+ years of total IT experience.
• 6+ years performing solution design & system integration.
• Experience guiding multiple agile development teams and establishing an architecture runway.
• Deep experience with multiple programming languages and modern full-stack development (Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, bash scripts, Groovy).
• Mastery of Domain Driven Design and microservice architecture.
• Skilled in cloud-native architecture and design with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong knowledge of event driven architecture using AWS SQS/SNS, Kafka, or similar platforms.

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