Technical Architect Senior

Munich Reinsurance America, Inc; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 182,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

401k match

Paid holidays and PTO

Wellness program

Job summary

Munich Reinsurance America, Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to design and lead a fully automated platform for single-risk insurance.

You will engage with stakeholders, guide architecture, and ensure production readiness with automated testing and monitoring. The role requires a master’s degree and 5+ years in architecture or related roles, with strong expertise in cloud, automation, and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, MIS or related field.
• Minimum 5 years in information systems architecture or related senior technical roles.
• Experience leading Agile teams delivering automated, end‑to‑end insurance tech platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead development of a comprehensive technical platform for automated insurance processing.
• Serve as the single knowledge expert for development, testing, and production operations.
• Drive SLAs, performance testing, and compliance across the platform.

Skills

Agile leadership

Technical architecture

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD pipelines

Container orchestration

Education

Master’s degree in CS / MIS or related

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Company: Munich Reinsurance America, Inc.

Position: Technical Architect Senior

Location: New York, New York, United States

Job Type: Full-Time

Salary Range: $201,950 to $201,950 per year

Duties: Design and lead development of comprehensive technical platform to execute fully automated transactional insurance for single-risk business. Engage with business stakeholders and leaders to understand business problem or opportunity and design all technical capabilities and infrastructure to deliver technology solution. Act as the single knowledge expert to all team members for the development, testing, and production operation of the technical platform. Develop continuous and periodic automated performance testing and monitoring to achieve 98% successful operation of platform. Develop Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for technical output and delivery of platform to ensure customer and stakeholder satisfaction. Develop technical roadmap to prioritize and expand development of new products, enhancements, capabilities and technical components. Engage with external clients to promote and achieve new successful customer integrations to the technical platform. Ensure full execution of all IT compliance, governance, security, redundancy, and continuity requirements and best practices.

Requirements: Master's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related field plus 5 years of experience as an Information Systems Architect, Technical Architect, Software Engineer, Enterprise Systems Architect or closely related position. Prior work experience must include: Management of staff and contracted engineering resources working in Agile teams developing technical backlogs, sprint cycle work assignments, and working in development to meet business objectives and delivery timelines; Using insurance domain knowledge and leading development of end-to-end automation for single-risk personal and commercial lines property casualty insurance; Development and implementation of real time insurance rating and pricing engines for property and casualty insurance; Designing and operating automated cloud infrastructure and deploying pipelines using IaC and CI/CD pipelines; Architecture for orchestration of containerized workloads on distributed cloud systems for near real time systems; Designing data democratization platforms for multiple internal and external stakeholders providing reporting capabilities, actuarial modeling environments, and complete endtoend machine learning development and operation; and, presentation of complex technical and operational concepts to nontechnical audiences including financial decision makers. May telecommute but must have ability to report to the New York, NY office 2 times per week.

Benefits: Opportunity for company bonus based upon a percentage of eligible pay. In addition, the company makes available a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, 401k match, retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

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