Senior Technology & Solution Architect — Insurance Solutions

Birlasoft; New Jersey; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Birlasoft seeks a Senior Technology & Solution Architect to drive strategic technology initiatives across Global Commercial Insurance, Specialty Insurance and Reinsurance. This role connects business strategy with technology delivery, turning ideas into well-defined architectures and roadmaps for execution.

The ideal candidate blends insurance domain knowledge with enterprise architecture experience and familiarity with Guidewire, SAP Insurance, VIPR, integration tech, data platforms, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; equivalent experience.
• Master's degree preferred in Technology, Engineering, IS, or MBA.
• TOGAF, Azure/AWS Architecture or equivalent certifications preferred.
• Insurance industry certifications or deep experience in Commercial, Specialty, London Market, and Reinsurance environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to understand problems, objectives, transformation opportunities, and technology needs.
• Translate business ideas and requirements into solution architectures and technology options.
• Define current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures across applications, integration, data, cloud, security, and operations.
• Conduct technology option assessments (build vs. buy vs. extend vs. integrate) with focus on value, cost, risk, scalability, and strategic fit.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles and long-term business strategy.
• Develop architecture into actionable project components, milestones, and implementation sequences.
• Identify dependencies across applications, APIs, data, infrastructure, security, vendors, and teams.
• Produce architecture inception packages to mobilize projects.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Solution Architecture

Business-IT translation

Cloud solutions

AI productivity tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field

Master's degree in Technology/Engineering/IS (preferred)

TOGAF/Azure/AWS architecture certs (preferred)

Insurance domain certifications (preferred)

Tools

Guidewire

SAP Insurance/Reinsurance/Finance

VIPR

Integration technologies

Data platforms

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Job description

Birlasoft seeks a Senior Technology & Solution Architect to drive strategic technology initiatives across Global Commercial Insurance, Specialty Insurance and Reinsurance. This role connects business strategy with technology delivery, turning ideas into well-defined architectures and roadmaps for execution.

The ideal candidate blends insurance domain knowledge with enterprise architecture experience and familiarity with Guidewire, SAP Insurance, VIPR, integration tech, data platforms, and