Technical Architect

The IT Technical Architect is responsible for defining, evolving, and maintaining technical and data architectures that support IT products across multiple business domains, including but not limited to Engineering, Finance, operations, and Insurance.

The role ensures the delivery of highquality and resilient system designs that align business requirements with established architectural standards while maintaining system stability, performance, and scalability.

Architectures must optimize reliability, adaptability, and ensure the security of the organization's data assets. Whilst maintaining a clear eye on the operational and maintenance costs associated

IT Business Application Technical Architect General Accountabilities:

Own and contribute towards new and ongoing initiatives in the development of business application and data solutions

Provide technical leadership across distributed teams spanning multiple geographies, ensuring alignment on design patterns, coding standards, and delivery practices.

Coordinate and develop technological architecture / technical architecture roadmaps and processes that ensure that application lifecycles are managed within the organization

Oversee & Manage best practice implementation for system design in collaboration with Solution and Enterprise Architecture

Capture and prioritize market and technology trends on a corporate level, review technical strategies and objectives, and identify the business benefits of alternative technical solutions

Derive data management structures to support consistency of information retrieval, combination, analysis, pattern recognition and interpretation, throughout the organization

Adhere to and promote corporate compliance and security standards minimizing opportunity for breach or compromise.

Provide technical guidance, leadership, coaching and mentoring to resources on product team

Work cooperatively and collaboratively with various delivery frameworks to deliver on strategies and designs

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience

5+ years of information systems experience, including 3+ years in technical and/or solution architecture roles

Experience designing, developing and supporting systems that facilitate operational business processes

Demonstrated experience designing enterprise IT solutions, SaaS platforms, and cloudbased applications

Working knowledge of legacy application architectures, design patterns, and development technologies

Proven experience with systems integration in a development and technical leadership capacity, including digital strategy adoption and integrating current/future technologies to legacy platforms

Conduct and facilitate design reviews, code reviews, and technical governance checkpoints to ensure quality and consistency.

Strong technical foundation across Microsoft platforms, as well as other vendors.

Preferrable experience in Inspection & Scheduling processes,

Knowledge of regulatory requirements in insurance, reinsurance, or financial services preferred

Knowledge and Skills:

Strong understanding of system design, integration patterns, and architectural best practices

Practical development experience across .NET ecosystems.

Applied knowledge of database technologies, both relational and document

Applied knowledge of APIs, data analytics, and digital transformation enablement

Knowledge of Integration and storage Patterns, including Event handling and messaging systems.

Working knowledge of Cloud environments notably Azure and / or AWS

Working knowledge of traceability frameworks (Logging & Performance).

Ability to evaluate system architectures. E.g. monolith vs microservices, scalability, resilience

Proficiency with Agile and Kanban delivery models, including associated tools and techniques

Handson experience operating and supporting enterprise systems in complex, regulated environments

Ability to work independently with full ownership of outcomes, while collaborating effectively within crossfunctional teams

Strong organizational and timemanagement skills with the ability to manage competing priorities

Proven stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing across global business and technical teams

Excellent analytical, problemsolving, negotiation, and decisionmaking capabilities

Clear, concise verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence decisions at multiple organizational levels

Proficiency with productivity tools for documentation, analysis, and presentation development

Demonstrated ability to quickly adopt and leverage new tools and technologies

Strong grounding in usability principles and customerfocused design

At Munich Re US, we see Diversity and Inclusion as a solution to the challenges and opportunities all around us. Our goal is to foster an inclusive culture and build a workforce that reflects the customers we serve and the communities in which we live and work. We strive to provide a workplace where all of our colleagues feel respected, valued and empowered to achieve their very best every day. We recruit and develop talent with a focus on providing our customers the most innovative products and services.

We are an equal opportunity employer. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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