Solution Architect

Oliver James; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Xceedance in the United States is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead the delivery of a foundational solution architecture for a major insurance transformation. You will partner with expert business analysts and cross-functional teams to accelerate digital modernization while ensuring security, scalability, and governance.

In this role you will drive architectural decisions, oversee large programs, and shape client strategies with executive stakeholders, delivering measurable

Qualifications

• 15+ years in application engineering and delivery leadership.
• 5+ years in leadership roles (Delivery/Practice/Portfolio/Architecture).
• 5+ years in insurance domain (P&C/Reinsurance).
• Experience leading large development programs with distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and govern large engineering programs across multiple lines of business.
• Drive Agile/SAFe, DevSecOps, CI/CD, test automation, and SRE practices.
• Provide consultative input during opportunity assessment and execution phases.
• Lead solutioning for strategic pursuits: discovery, target architecture, costing and estimation.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Delivery Leadership

Insurance Domain

Executive Stakeholder Management

Cloud Engineering

Digital Engineering

API Development

Security & Observability

Education

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

Tools

Guidewire

Duck Creek

Origami

Socotra

Job description

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.

What You'll Be Doing

Large Program Engineering Delivery Ownership

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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).
• 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 to global engagements such as UK / Australia (or similar international markets)
• Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent.
• 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.
• Exposure to 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.

What You Can Expect from Us

• A collaborative, entrepreneurial environment where your ideas drive change
• Opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies and a worldwide network of insurance experts
• A culture rooted in teamwork, integrity, continuous learning, and client success
  

Opportunity

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.

What You'll Be Doing

Large Program Engineering Delivery Ownership

• 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.

Solutioning, Pre-Sales & Revenue Enablement

• 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.

Transformation Support & Architecture Leadership

• 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.

• Provide technology leadership across digital engineering, application modernization, API & integration ecosystems, cloud-native engineering
• 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.

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).
• 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 to global engagements such as UK / Australia (or similar international markets)
• Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent.
• 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.
• Exposure to 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.

What You Can Expect from Us

• A collaborative, entrepreneurial environment where your ideas drive change
• Opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies and a worldwide network of insurance experts
• A culture rooted in teamwork, integrity, continuous learning, and client success
  

Desired Skills and Experience

• 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).
• 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 to global engagements such as UK / Australia (or similar international markets)
• Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent.
• 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.
• Exposure to 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.