Lead IT Architect - Insurance

- 10 to 15 years experience in software development, technical project management, digital delivery or technology consulting. - Prior IT consulting experience is a must with management experience. - Experience of working in the insurance technology market with knowledge on core insurance processes and packages such as Guidewire, Duck Creek or DXC Graphtalk AIA, Sapiens, Keylane or SAP Insurance. - Experience of working on core systems modernisation (such as Policy administration, claims systems or underwriting/pricing) and regulatory reporting (Solvency II or IFRS 17). - Technical expertise working with Data and Cloud technologies. - Overview of common development methods and tools DevOps practices and Continuous Improvement. - Ability to balance dogmatism and pragmatism to guide decision making; articulate trade-offs and drive high-impact technology decisions on topics including IaaS/PaaS providers, container orchestration, service mesh, API gateways, and commercial vs. open source software. - Approaches to managing Architectural debt, Architecture governance and evolution in practice. - Micro services topologies, including operational concerns such as resiliency, observability, discovery and routing, security etc. - Have experience with, and understand how to lead, legacy integration and remediation (facades, strangler approaches, et. al.). - Deep understanding of different integration patterns and best practices such as events, synchronous vs. asynchronous. - Ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel to clients world-wide. - For candidates based in London: Fluent in English. - For candidates based in the Netherlands: Fluent in English; Dutch is highly desirable. - For candidates based in Belgium: Fluent in English, with French or Flemish as an additional requirement. - University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, or business administration.