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PwC · 1 month ago

FS Insurance Technical Architect Consultant - Senior Manager

WA-Seattle

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$124K/yr - $280K/yr

PwC is a leading professional services firm that provides a wide range of services in Functional and Industry Technologies. The Senior Manager will work as part of a team to solve complex business issues in the financial services sector, particularly in insurance, by building secure digital experiences and improving technology systems.

AccountingBusiness DevelopmentConsultingFinanceFinancial ServicesTax Consulting

No H1B

Responsibilities

Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team

Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations

Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels

Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail

Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required

Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism

Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart

Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements

Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust

Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct

Identifying and addressing client needs: build relationships with clients; develop an awareness of Firm services; communicate with the client in an organized and knowledgeable manner; deliver clear requests for information; demonstrate flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks; and communicate and manage conflicts

Developing strategy; as well as write, communicate, facilitate, and present cogently; to and/or for all levels of Insurance industry audiences, clients and internal staff /management - documenting effectively, using non-technical business terms and vocabulary that are understood clearly by all users and co-workers; and, coordinating, facilitating and making presentations

Designing and leading FS Insurance architecture engagements aligned to a client's business strategy - searching and analyzing large, complex data sets; conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses; understanding and documenting existing business systems and technology; translating end-state business and technology models into architectural blueprints; developing business and technology solution models (conceptual, logical, physical, as-built), architecture diagrams, drawings, and visual communications; and

Coaching, mentoring and supporting systems development teams in implementing architectures

Qualification

AWS Solutions ArchitectInsurance technologiesData architectureBig data technologiesWeb technologiesService orchestrationAdvanced analyticsTechnical knowledgeClient relationship managementCoachingTeam leadershipMentoring

Required

Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team

Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations

Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels

Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail

Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required

Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism

Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart

Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements

Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust

Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct

Preferred

AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Associate

Technical architectures and products used including general capabilities (i.e web, service, data, and infrastructure) and insurance specific (i.e. Guidewire, EIS, Duck Creek, etc.)

Application of technical knowledge to understand existing environments, current and emerging technology trends, software packages and technology vendor marketplaces

Enterprise-level technical solutions within specific Insurance markets such as P&C, Life, Annuities, Group & Retirement

Collaboration with Enterprise Technical Architects to create and maintain strategic roadmaps, principles, standards and reference architectures - specifically insurance-related architectures, including policy administration systems

Engagement with business executives to define and document strategy and enabling IT capabilities and the necessary iterations

Guidance provided to Project Architects to develop requirements and establish alignment with business architecture, enterprise and functional area strategic roadmaps

Alignment with internal teams to verify budget and resource commitment to support roadmaps (via architecture dependencies and prioritization)

Opportunity identification and promotion for cross-business sharing and re-use of application components, rationalizing application portfolios and integrated architectures

Coaching, mentoring and supporting systems development teams in implementing architectures

Insurance technologies such as Guidewire, EIS, Duck Creek

Web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap framework, Angular JS, ReactJS, ViewJS, Yeoman, D3js, Nodejs, jQuery

Data architecture, data modeling and data management across relationship, columnar and noSQL technologies like SQL Server, MongoDB, Vertica, neo4j

Big data technologies like Hadoop (Hortwonworks, Cloudera, Azure HDInsight, Amazon EMR), Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch and others

Service creation and orchestration using ESBs like Mulesoft, Talend

Advanced analytics development experience with R, Python a plus

Architecting solutions across on premise and cloud a plus

Cloud based data and analytics native PaaS components in Azure, Google Cloud, AWS