Director, Platform Architecture

Jacksonville, FL 10751 Deerwood Park Blvd Suite 200 Jacksonville, FL 32256, USA

We are seeking a hands‑on Platform Architect to drive the design and build‑out of a modern insurance platform leveraging Insure

MO, Unqork, and cloud‑native APIs and front‑ends. This role is central to enabling Fortegra’s specialty program business models—spanning underwriting, program launches, policy administration, billing, financials, and claims administration.

Unlike a traditional enterprise architect, this position requires deep technical engagement: designing domain services, building reference implementations, orchestrating event‑driven integrations, and collaborating directly with engineering teams. The ideal candidate understands how to define, communicate, and guide architectural vision at the executive and individual engineer level.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the decomposition of disparate, siloed applications into a modular, composable architecture that enables reuse, accelerates delivery, and supports rapid program evolution.
• Define architectural vision and roadmap to reach the target‑state composable architecture and guide module design decisions.
• Dive deep into the architecture and best practices for Insure
  
  MO’s middle‑office platform and Unqork’s no‑code platform. Partner with vendor solution architects to align to target‑state design.
• Develop architectural patterns, blueprints, and templates for Azure cloud‑native front‑ends and microservices.
• Partner with delivery teams to ensure API contracts, data models, event schemas, and integration patterns align with long‑term platform strategy.
• Establish guidelines for using AI‑driven architectural decisioning, code generation, and design tooling to accelerate and standardize solution delivery.

Hands‑On Technical Leadership

• Build prototypes, reference solutions, and foundational libraries used across teams.
• Partner closely with development teams implementing services, Unqork modules, and cloud‑native front ends.
• Evaluate and optimize Insure
  
  MO configurations, including product definitions, BO APIs, event consumption, and orchestration.
• Guide decomposition of legacy workflows into modular, API‑first processes.
• Provide architectural direction for cloud configuration, CI/CD automation, scalability, observability, and performance tuning.
• Champion the use of AI coding tools (e.g., Replit, Cursor, or Git Hub Copilot) to improve development efficiency, consistency, and quality.

Insurance Domain & Program Business Enablement

• Translate specialty program business requirements—underwriting rules, client self‑service, bordereaux processing, financials, compliance, reinsurance structures—into scalable technical architecture.
• Enable rapid deployment of new program products via Insure
  
  MO product configuration and Unqork’s no‑code capabilities.
• Ensure seamless data exchange and workflow execution between partners such as MGAs, TPAs, reinsurers, and distribution channels.
• Architect solutions that support multi‑tenant or multi‑program use cases with strong governance and data segregation.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Work with underwriting, product, operations, and actuarial partners to ensure platform capabilities meet business objectives.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Data Science, Security, Dev Ops, and Cloud Infrastructure teams to ensure security, resiliency, compliance, and observability.
• Communicate architectural decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and business audiences.
• Educate and mentor teams on best practices and the overarching architectural vision.

The above cited duties and responsibilities describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to the job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that an incumbent may be expected or asked to perform.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of hands‑on software engineering/architecture experience.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work hands‑on with engineering teams.
• Strong experience with event‑driven architectures, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Hands‑on expertise with cloud platforms.
• Proficiency with modern development languages…