Solutions Architect Property & Casualty

Job Title:
Solution Architect (Applications)

Location:
Remote (United States; prefer EST and CST)

This role is open only to candidates who are authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.

Who We Are

Xceedance provides strategic operations support, technology, and data services to drive efficiencies for insurance organizations worldwide. We collaborate with insurers, reinsurers, MGAs, brokers, and captives to launch products, implement intelligent technology, deploy advanced analytics, and achieve business process optimization. We are committed to adding direct value in the business of insurance and help our clients to embrace change, accelerate innovation, and achieve meaningful business outcomes.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Solution Architect to lead the delivery of a robust foundational solution architecture to accelerate digital transformation, reduce total cost of ownership and contribute to our insurance ecosystem.

If you possess a passion for what you do, we await your innovation at Xceedance.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Actively leads transformation initiatives by contributing domain and technical expertise.
• Align solutions with the overall transformation roadmap and strategic goals.
• Provide consultative input during opportunity assessment and execution phases.
• Drive best practices for architecture patterns, NFRs, code quality, observability and performance engineering.

Client Advisory & Onshore Leadership

• Act as a trusted advisor to client senior leaders (VP/CXO levels) on application modernization, cloud transformation, and digital engineering strategy.
• Lead client steering committees, architecture review boards, and executive governance forums.
• Translate business objectives into engineering roadmaps with measurable outcomes.
• Lead solutioning for strategic pursuits: discovery, target architecture, delivery approach, costing and estimation.
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of customer-focused solutions including: support RFP responses, solution orals, and proactive transformation proposals.
• Build practice offerings aligned to Insurance SI needs and drive account expansion using scalable, reusable solutions.

Large Program Engineering Delivery Ownership

• Lead and govern large application engineering programs involving complex application builds, modernization, and integration transformation across multiple lines of business.
• Own outcomes for large engagements;
  Delivery predictability and release governance, Defect leakage reduction and quality metrics;
  Architecture-led delivery, scalability, performance, security and resiliency controls;
  Program risk mitigation across dependencies and multi-vendor ecosystems
• Drive standardized delivery approach using Agile/SAFe, Dev Sec Ops , test automation, and cloud best practices.
• Ensure high-quality technical decision-making and delivery governance across distributed teams and partners.

What You Bring

• 15+ years of experience in application engineering and delivery leadership, ideally in Technical Architect / Consulting environments.
• 5+ years in leadership roles covering Delivery / Practice / Portfolio / Architecture leadership.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience within insurance domain (P&C/ Reinsurance) and familiarity with insurance platforms (Guidewire/Duck Creek/Socotra/Origami) is required
• Demonstrated leadership in large development programs/projects, including multi-year and multi-release initiatives based on agile/waterfall, distributed engineering teams across geographies, modernization / rebuild / integration transformation programs, complex dependency management and multi-vendor environments
• Prior executive stakeholder management experience gained from onsite engagements in US. Prefer exposure…