Principal - Implementation

Overview

We are seeking a seasoned Duck Creek Solution Architect to lead end-to-end architecture design and delivery of Duck Creek based solutions across Policy, Billing, and Claims for P&C carriers. You will own the target architecture guide implementation teams and ensure solutions meet business outcomes for scalability performance security and regulatory compliance in the US insurance market.

• Architecture Ownership:
  Define target and interim architectures for Duck Creek Policy Billing and Claims; govern solution integrity across discovery, design, build and go live
• Requirements Road mapping:
  Translate business LOB needs into scalable solution blueprints, integration designs, data models and product configuration strategies
• Platform Expertise:
  Lead configuration and extensions using Duck Creek tools; author Forms, Templates Anywhere, APIs, Producer codes, Rating, Product Studio, ensuring upgrade-safe patterns
• Integration Data Design: APIs and event flows; oversee data migration, archival and reporting architectures, operational data stores, EDW, downstream analytics
• Nonfunctional Excellence:
  Establish performance, availability, resiliency and DR patterns; caching, throttling, async processing, autoscaling, blue/green, canary
• Cloud Dev Ops:
  Define CI/CD pipelines, environment strategy, infrastructure as code and observability for cloud-native deployments (Azure, AWS)
• Security Compliance:
  Ensure SOC2/ISO
  27001 controls, privacy and regulatory alignment (e.g., state DOI rules, UET, AeSignature, PCI for payments)
• Delivery Leadership:
  Provide technical leadership to engineers and configuration specialists; BA/QA review estimates, design docs and code; remove delivery risks
• Stakeholder Management:
  Partner with business leaders, underwriting, claims, ops, product owners and vendor teams; run architecture reviews and exec-level updates
• Standards Reuse:
  Establish reference architectures, reusable accelerators, best practices and guardrails for multiprogram scale
• Change Release:
  Govern release readiness, cutover strategies, hypercare and post go-live optimization

• Experience 15 years in enterprise software with 8 years designing and delivering Duck Creek solutions (Policy, Billing, Claims) for P&C carriers in the USA
• Platform Depth:
  Hands-on with Duck Creek Author, Product, Rating, Forms, Templates Anywhere, APIs, Pascal, TCF, batch and document services and upgrade strategies
• Insurance Domain:
  Strong knowledge of US P&C products (Personal Auto, Homeowners, Umbrella, Commercial Auto, GL, BOP, Property) rating, ISO filings, endorsements, compliance and bureau updates
• Architecture
  
  Skills:
  
  Proven track record with microservices, API-led integration, event-driven designs, 12-factor apps and domain-driven design
• Cloud Dev Ops:
  Production experience on Azure and/or AWS; infrastructure as code (ARM, Bicep, Terraform), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CICD (Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Jenkins) and observability (App Insights, Cloud Watch, ELK)

• Duck Creek Suite:
  Policy, Billing, Claims;
  Author, Rating, Forms, Templates Anywhere, APIs; batch processing; product configuration; product modeling
• Dev Ops:
  Git branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, artifact version management, automated testing, feature flags
• Security:
  App Sec and cloud security best practices, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, audit logging
• Data: SQL Server, performance tuning, indexing, data migration, archival strategies, reporting feeds for BI analytics

• Leadership
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  Ability to drive technical decisions across cross-functional teams and vendor partners; coach and mentor engineers and product teams
• Communication
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  Translate complex technical concepts for executives and nontechnical stakeholders; produce clear architecture docs and diagrams
• Stakeholder Management
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  Facilitate workshops, negotiate tradeoffs and build consensus across underwriting, claims, finance and compliance

• Comprehensive Medical Plan covering Medical, Dental, Vision
• Short Term and Long-Term Disability Coverage
• 401(k) Plan with Company match
• Life Insurance
• Paid Paternity and Maternity…