Senior Architect
The role of an architect is one who provides leadership and technical guidance in the design and implementation of technology solutions in support of business needs and strategy. The architect translates business requirements into implementable technology solutions that balance cost, speed of delivery, and value while leveraging existing technologies and standards whenever possible.
As a hands-on product architect you will work with a team of engineers to change the way our customers do business. The challenges facing our SW Product Architect include designing our next generation of cloud based products, building service-oriented applications that can expose functionality flexibility to different user bases, and leading teams to achieve the product vision through active mentoring, technical decision-making, and facilitating company-wide collaboration.
Over the past 40 years, Vertafore has advanced the business of insurance by bringing together the best software in the industry to help agencies, carriers, and MGAs run their organizations. Today, we’re proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, cut costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore helps our customers deliver exceptional value to their clients with innovative, intuitive, and comprehensive products and services. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight— right when customers need it most.
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• Amazon Web Services (AWS) expertise with a quality of service mindset is critical to success in this role. The successful candidate must have demonstrated architectural & implementation skill sets to deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot cloud solutions.
• Deep understanding of micro-service based architectures and building performing, scalable and durable solutions in cloud environments.
• Cloud Application Design patterns and frameworks (for e.g. service discovery, circuit breaker, and 12 factor).
• Polyglot programming skills. for e.g. C#, NodeJS, Python.
• Proficient in NoSQL and Relational Databases.
• Demonstrable interest in emerging / nascent technologies.
• Highly proficient in communicating technical issues with product owners / stakeholders and product issues with technical people. Able to express complex concepts in plain language for greater understanding across teams / departments.
• Experience with producing System Architecture diagrams and supporting documentation
• Working knowledge in infrastructure orchestration
• Working knowledge in deployment automation and continuous integration frameworks
• Solid experience in the administration and performance tuning of application stacks
• Working knowledge in application security