It Enterprise Architect

Topgear Consultants; Mumbai; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Topgear Consultants is seeking an IT Enterprise Architect with extensive experience in enterprise architecture, APIs, and cloud basics. The role involves crafting architecture artifacts, mapping life insurance processes, and guiding project designs to align with enterprise standards.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, maintain architecture repositories, and participate in vendor evaluations. Strong documentation and communication are essential for success in this senior position.

Qualifications

• Ability to create architecture artifacts and diagrams.
• Understand AS-IS and TO-BE architectures under guidance.
• Map life insurance domain processes to technical views.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams on designs and standards.

Responsibilities

• Archive architecture artifacts and maintain repositories.
• Support projects with high-level solution designs and interfaces.
• Analyze life insurance processes: underwriting, policy, claims, servicing.
• Ensure designs align with enterprise standards and security controls.
• Collaborate with development, testing, infra, and security teams.
• Assist vendor evaluations and PoC documentation.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

APIs & Microservices

Cloud Basics

Documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technology/CS

MBA (preferred)

Tools

Visio

Draw.io

Lucidchart

Confluence

SharePoint

Sparx EA

LeanIX

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Role - IT Enterprise Architect

Experience

• 37 years of overall IT experience
• Exposure to Life Insurance systems is strongly preferred
• Experience working in:
• Application development
• Business analysis
• Integration / middleware teams
• Core insurance system projects

Education

• Bachelors degree in Engineering / Technology / Computer Science
• MBA (preferred)

Key Responsibilities

1. Architecture Documentation & Analysis

• Create and maintain architecture artifacts:
• Application landscape diagrams
• Integration flows
• Data flow diagrams
• System dependency maps
• Document ASIS and TOBE architectures under guidance from senior architects.
• Maintain architecture repositories (Confluence, SharePoint, LeanIX, Sparx EA, etc.).

2. Solution Support to Projects

• Support solution design for projects in:
• New Business & Underwriting
• Policy Administration
• Claims & Servicing
• Digital channels (customer/agent portals)
• Assist in creating:
• High-level solution designs
• Interface specifications
• Non-functional requirements (NFRs)
• Coordinate with development, testing, infra, and security teams.

3. Life Insurance Domain Support

• Understand and map life insurance business processes:
• Proposal Underwriting Policy Issuance
• Endorsements & servicing
• Claims lifecycle
• Commission & payout flows
• Translate business requirements into technical views (with guidance).

4. Architecture Governance Support

• Assist in architecture reviews and compliance checks.
• Validate project designs against:
• Enterprise standards
• Technology guidelines
• Security and IRDAI compliance requirements

5. Integration & Data Analysis

• Analyze API and integration requirements between:
• PAS, CRM, portals, payment gateways, reinsurers, aggregators
• Assist in defining:
• API contracts
• Event/message flows
• Data ownership and data movement
• Support data architecture documentation (logical models, source-to-target mappings).

6. Vendor & Technology Evaluation Support

• Help evaluate vendor solutions (PAS, digital platforms, analytics tools).
• Prepare comparison matrices, RFP responses, and PoC documentation.
• Coordinate with SI partners for technical clarifications.

Technical Skills (Working Knowledge Expected)

• Understanding of:
• Application architecture
• APIs, REST, JSON, basic microservices concepts
• Databases (RDBMS basics)
• Familiarity with:
• Core insurance platforms (LifeAsia, Ingenium, etc.)
• Cloud concepts (Azure/AWS basics are enough)
• Ability to read and understand:
• Architecture diagrams
• Sequence diagrams
• Technical design documents

Tools & Artifacts

• Diagramming tools: Visio, Draw.io, Lucidchart
• Documentation: Confluence, SharePoint
• Architecture tools (good to have): Sparx EA, LeanIX
• Jira / Azure DevOps (for coordination)

Soft Skills (Very Important at This Level)

• Strong documentation and structuring skills
• Ability to ask the right questions
• Attention to detail
• Good communication with tech and business teams
• Willingness to learn insurance domain deeply