.Net Solution Architect

Xceedance; Australia; On-site; AUD 230,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Xceedance is seeking a senior Solution Architect to lead the delivery of a robust foundational solution architecture that accelerates digital transformation within the insurance domain.

You will collaborate with business analysts and technical teams, driving end-to-end design and ensuring onshore client engagement across Australia, US, and Europe with a focus on scalability, security, and measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in architecture or delivery leadership.
• Insurance domain knowledge (P&C / Reinsurance) and familiarity with insurance platforms.
• Proven success leading large engineering programs with multi-vendor environments.
• Onshore client engagements in US/UK/Australia or similar markets.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and deployment of customer-focused insurance solutions.
• Own end-to-end solutioning, including requirements, demonstrations, and RFP responses.
• Drive transformation initiatives aligned to roadmap and strategic goals.
• Champion reusable assets, templates, and frameworks across projects.
• Lead cross-geography delivery with governance, risk management, and release readiness.

Skills

Insurance Domain Knowledge

Solution Architecture

Pre-Sales & Proposals

Onshore Client Engagement

Cloud-Native & Microservices

Leadership & Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

DevSecOps

TOGAF

Angular

Job description

Role Summary

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. The successful candidate will secure an opportunity to work with expert business analysts and showcase their excellence in the insurance domain.

As a Solution Architect, you will tap into the expertise of team and empower others to take ownership of their work. You will assist in the advancement of the industry with leading analytical skills and individual well-roundedness.

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

This role requires:

• Technical Advisory & Consulting experience for digital transformation, application rationalisation and CXO Advisory
• proven experience leading large-scale development projects, and
• onshore client-facing experience working at client locations or international customers based out of US and Europe.

Key Responsibilities

Strengthen Solutions

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of customer-focused solutions across insurance and related domains.
• Own the end-to-end solutioning process, including:
• Understanding domain-specific needs and tailoring solutions accordingly.
• Responding to RFPs with detailed solution architecture and value propositions.
• Creating proactive proposals to address emerging or latent business needs.
• Preparing and delivering presentations, demos, and oral defences for stakeholders.
• Ensure solutions are technically sound, scalable, and aligned with business goals and transformation objectives.

Transformation Support

• 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.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Lead with innovation in solution design, leveraging emerging technologies.
• Encourage and institutionalize reuse of assets, templates, and frameworks across projects.
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery methodologies and practices.

Large Program Engineering Delivery Ownership (Core Requirement)

• Lead and govern large engineering programs involving complex 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, DevSecOps, CI/CD, test automation, and SRE practices.
• Ensure high-quality technical decision-making and delivery governance across distributed teams and partners.

Technology & Architecture Leadership

• Provide technology leadership across:
  • Digital engineering (web/mobile portals, omnichannel experiences)
  • Application modernization (microservices, event-driven systems, refactoring legacy platforms)
  • API & integration ecosystems (middleware, API mgmt., iPaaS, messaging platforms)
  • Cloud-native engineering (migration, platform engineering, containerization, Kubernetes)
• 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.
• Bring proven onshore stakeholder management gained through working at client locations in US/UK/Australia (or similar) to build trust and strengthen strategic partnerships.

Solutioning, Pre-Sales & Revenue Enablement

• Lead solutioning for strategic pursuits: discovery, target architecture, delivery approach, costing and estimation.
• 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.
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills for client orals and demos.
• Collaborate with Sales and Account teams to shape opportunities, win deals, and position Xceedance as a strategic engineering partner.

Practice Capability Building & Innovation

• Build practice assets: reference architectures, reusable components, accelerators, templates, and engineering playbooks.
• Define engineering maturity and modernization models and apply them across accounts.
• Sponsor innovation in:
  • platform engineering and cloud-native modernization
  • API ecosystems, integration modernization, event-driven architectures
  • GenAI-assisted SDLC productivity improvements
• Stay current on emerging technologies and incorporate relevant innovations into delivery and offerings.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Build and mentor strong engineering leaders: architects, engineering managers, platform specialists.
• Define skill development paths, certifications, and leadership development plans.
• Drive a culture of engineering excellence: secure-by-design, automation-first delivery, continuous improvement and strong ownership.
• Ability to lead virtual teams and influence without authority across multiple geographies.

Key Skills & Competencies

• Minimum 14-16 years of demonstrable experience as Architect, 4+ years as Solution architect role including architecture advisory and consulting.
• 4+ years of experience and expertise in presales activities, solution design, proposal, providing solution points of view and estimations.

• Development projects experience: solutioning, architecture, execution excellence, release governance
• Solutioning & consulting: discovery, target architecture, roadmap creation, proposals/RFPs, executive storytelling
• Modern engineering architecture: microservices, cloud-native, integration patterns, event-driven systems
• Experience in change management, adoption planning, and benefit realization.
• Cloud & platform engineering: AWS/Azure, containers, Kubernetes, IaC, platform modernization
• Client leadership: executive stakeholder management, onshore engagement exposure, influencing skills

Experience & Qualifications (Mandatory)

• 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.
• Insurance domain knowledge (P&C/ Reinsurance) and familiarity with insurance platforms (Guidewire/Duck Creek/Socotra/Origami).
• 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
• Mandatory onshore experience:
  • worked at client locations and led delivery/solutioning engagements in US / UK / Australia (or similar international markets)
  • strong executive stakeholder management experience gained from onsite engagements
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent.

Core Competencies & Skills

• Strong expertise across at least 2–3 of: Digital Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Integration Engineering, Application Modernization.
• Strong architecture and design capability (security, performance, resiliency, scalability, observability).
• Applied skills in app development like Web API, Web Application, Azure Services, Angular/React and more. (.net Core)

• Expert in designing, architecting, and delivering cloud-native solutions on PaaS, integration, and serverless technologies.
• Ability to work with application architecture, tiers, layers, non-functional requirements (NFRs), APIs, and DevOps automation.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI), Enterprise AI, Generative AI (GenAI), Agentic AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Intelligent Automation, AI Strategy, Governance & Innovation.
• Strong delivery governance using Agile/SAFe, DevSecOps, CI/CD, test automation, and release readiness practices.
• Knowledge of any one or two TOGAF or Zachman frameworks.

• Excellent executive communication, client advisory, negotiation, and team leadership skills.
• Ability to scale teams, standardize engineering delivery, and build high-performance delivery culture.

Preferred / Good-to-Have

• Certifications: Cloud Solution Architect (AWS/Azure/GCP), TOGAF, SAFe, Kubernetes, Security certs.
• Experience establishing reusable accelerators and IP to improve time-to-market.