Solution Architect (P&C insurance domain)

EPAM Systems; Canada; Remote; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended Healthcare

Life Insurance

AD&D Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Telehealth

Disability Insurance

Paid Time Off

RRSP with company match

Parental Leave Top-up

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Critical Illness Insurance

Employee Discounts

LinkedIn Learning Access

Job summary

EPAM Systems is building a greenfield Commercial Lines insurance platform focused on Commercial Property with a modern microservices architecture. The Solution Architect will report to Enterprise/Solution Architecture and collaborate with Product, Underwriting, Actuarial, Engineering, and Data teams in a hands-on governance role.

The role defines target-state architecture, produces deliverables, and ensures architectural governance as engineering teams build against the designs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of solution/enterprise architecture experience.
• Greenfield microservices platform shipped end-to-end.
• P&C insurance domain experience required.
• Event-driven architecture with Kafka or equivalent.
• OpenAPI 3.1 API design experience.
• Data architecture for regulated financial transactions.
• Reinsurance/quota share experience is a strong plus.
• AMS/clearinghouse integrations experience.

Responsibilities

• Define service decomposition and data ownership per service.
• Design the event-driven backbone and domain event models.
• Author OpenAPI 3.1 specs for inter-service APIs.
• Model commercial insurance data hierarchy (Account→Policy→Coverage...).
• Design immutable Premium Transaction Ledger for full reconstruction.
• Enforce separation between Rating and Rules services.
• Design Carrier Service abstraction for multiple carriers.
• Define integration architecture for SSO, AMS/clearinghouse, data providers, and payments.
• Drive non-functional requirements: sub-second rating, 99.9% uptime, RPO ≤15 minutes, RTO ≤4 hours.
• Produce architecture artifacts: C4 diagrams, ADRs, API contracts, data models.

Skills

OpenAPI 3.1

Kafka

Microservices

CQRS

Data Modeling

Tools

Azure

.NET

SQL Server

Job description

We are building a greenfield Commercial Lines insurance platform with an initial focus on Commercial Property. The platform is designed as a modern microservices-based ecosystem supporting underwriting, rating, policy administration, carrier management, and third-party integrations.

The Solution Architect will report into Enterprise/Solution Architecture and work closely with Product, Underwriting, Actuarial, Engineering, and Data Engineering teams. This is a hands‑on architecture and governance role responsible for defining the target‑state architecture and producing architecture deliverables that engineering teams will build against.

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Responsibilities

• Define service decomposition, bounded contexts, and data ownership per service

• Design the event‑driven backbone, including Kafka (or equivalent) domain event models, event schemas, versioning, and replay semantics

• Author OpenAPI 3.1 specifications for all inter‑service and externally consumed APIs before Engineering builds against them

• Design the commercial insurance data model, including the Account → Applicant → Policy → Coverage → Location → Building → Unit/Exposure hierarchy and NAICS‑specific exposure schema extensions

• Design the immutable Premium Transaction Ledger enabling full rating‑factor‑level reconstruction of every bound dollar across policy, coverage, location, building, exposure, carrier, and factor levels

• Enforce architectural separation between the stateless Rating Service (pricing only) and the Rules Service (eligibility, referral, and straight‑through disposition logic)

• Design the Carrier Service abstraction layer supporting multiple carriers and quota‑share allocation models

• Define integration architecture for SSO federation, AMS/clearinghouse connectivity, third‑party data enrichment providers, and payment gateway integrations

• Drive non‑functional requirements, including sub‑second rating response times, 99.9% uptime, RPO ≤15 minutes, RTO ≤4 hours, and architectural governance standards such as immutable transactions, effective dating, and prohibition of cross‑service database access

• Produce and maintain architecture artifacts, including C4 diagrams, ADRs, API contracts, and data models

Requirements

• 8+ years solution/enterprise architecture, with at least one greenfield microservices platform shipped end‑to‑end (design through production)

• P&C insurance domain experience, ideally Commercial Lines (account/policy/coverage hierarchies, rating engines, underwriting rules engines). Personal Lines-only background is a gap, not a disqualifier, but must be paired with fast ramp capacity

• Event‑driven architecture in production – Kafka or equivalent, domain event design, CQRS, eventual consistency trade‑offs

• API design at the contract level – OpenAPI 3.1, versioning strategy, backward‑compatibility discipline across independently deployable services

• Data architecture for regulated, auditable financial transactions – immutable ledgers, effective‑dating, reconciliation jobs, NUMERIC precision handling

• Direct experience with reinsurance/quota share, bordereaux reporting, or multi‑carrier allocation is a strong plus, not a hard requirement

• Experience integrating IVANS, EZLynx, or similar AMS/clearinghouse platforms

Nice to have

• Experience with Microsoft Azure, .NET, and SQL Server

We offer

• Extended Healthcare with Prescription Drugs, Dental and Vision, and Healthcare Spending Account (Company Paid)

• Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Paid)

• Employee Assistance Program (Company Paid)

• Telehealth (Company Paid)

• Short‑term Disability (Company Paid)

• Long‑Term Disability

• Paid Time Off (including vacation and sick days)

• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with Company match

• Maternity/Parental/Adoption Leave Top‑up

• Employee Stock Purchase Program

• Critical Illness Insurance

• Employee Discounts

• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions

EPAM Systems, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We recognize the value of diversity and inclusion in creating success for our customers, business partners, shareholders, employees and communities. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, developing and promoting employees without discrimination. As a global employer, this commitment includes complying with all laws in the countries in which we operate. Nevertheless, we believe equal employment practices should not be limited to what the law requires. Equal opportunity and inclusion are essential to motivate, empower and recognize the best in everyone.

At EPAM, employment actions are based on individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital or familial status, national origin, ancestry, genetics, age, disability status, veteran status, citizenship status when otherwise legally able to work, or any other characteristic protected by law.