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Farmers Insurance · 10 hours ago

Lead Data Integration & Streaming Architect (Lead Enterprise Architect)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$147K/yr - $250K/yr

6+ years exp

Farmers Insurance is committed to delivering peace of mind to customers through protection and comprehensive advice. They are seeking a Lead Data Integration & Streaming Architect to design and develop IT architecture strategy and standards while creating enterprise architecture delivery in alignment with the company's vision.

Auto InsuranceFinancial ServicesInsuranceLife Insurance

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Designs and develops IT architecture strategy, standards and roadmap while creating Enterprise architecture delivery (integrated process, applications, data and technology) in alignment with Enterprise architecture vision and direction

Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services

Hands-on experience in building data assets on Snowflake, Databricks, etc

Proficiency in Cloud Infrastructure such as AWS (Athena, EMR, Glue), Azure (Azure Data Fabric) and GCP (BigQuery)

Proficiency in data streaming technologies (e.g.,Apache Kafka / Flink or AWS Kinesis)

Proficiency in message brokers (e.g., IBM MQ,RabbitMQ, AWS SNS/SQS)

Knowledge of API design and management (e.g., REST, GraphQL)

Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, ELK stack)

Skills in reactive systems and programming methods (e.g., Spring WebFlux, Akka)

Understand event mesh, pub/sub architectures, event sourcing, CQRS, and CDC (Change Data Capture) pipelines

Strong knowledge of data mesh architecture and data product design (e.g., decentralized data ownership, clear data contracts)

Experience in creating strategy, Vision, Roadmap, reference Arch and patterns for a business/technical capability

Expertise in event-driven architecture (EDA) principles and patterns

Knowledge of microservices and Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

Experience in developing Data Architecture guidelines

Gain alignment on solutions and ability to influence others with data points

Strong understanding of security in distributed systems

Expertise in designing scalable, decoupled systems

Strong functional knowledge and business processes

Strong understanding of Insurance (or any industry) domains such as UW (Policy), Claims processing, Services Operations, etc

Knowledge on legal and compliance regulations specific to Insurance (PLUS)

Experience in building Data Products for functional domains (ex, Policy, Quote, Claims in Insurance domain)

Experienced in automating business process using AI

Communication & Story Telling. Ability to tell a story using STAR or other methods

Collaboration, leadership and influence skills – Ability to collaborate with other architects, negotiate and influence stakeholders to produce right solution

Business acumen and strategic thinking

Problem solving and critical thinking

Adaptability and continuous learning

Qualification

Data architecture strategyCloud infrastructure proficiencyData streaming technologiesEvent-driven architectureData mesh architectureAPI designMicroservices knowledgeData product designCommunication skillsCollaboration skillsProblem solvingAdaptability

Required