DescriptionAs our Sr. Software Engineer you will play a pivotal role in driving the rearchitecting of our core systems from a legacy mainframe onprem architecture to a cloudnative microservices based architecture. You will be responsible for analyzing and decomposing our current state technology environment into a componentbased architecture which will facilitate our technology modernization journey as needed to achieve our business objectives of speed to market digital enablement and digitization of our customer experiences.
Our current technologies include:COBOL IBM MQ IMS DB CICS DB2 z/OS and Smalltalk.
Our future state technologies include:Azure Java Spring Boot Kafka Apache Camel Angular MongoDB PostgreSQL
In addition to designing innovative strategies for migrating and enhancing our legacy applications you will collaborate closely with a diverse range of stakeholders including business leaders project managers software engineers and infrastructure teams. Together you will define and deliver comprehensive endtoend solutions that are secure scalable resilient and adaptable to evolving business needs ultimately ensuring a seamless impact on daytoday operations. Your leadership will be integral in identifying and mitigating technical debt transitioning our core applications into modern cloudnative architectures and implementing best practices in integration and DevSecOps. You will also focus on the profound implications of these changes ensuring that the enhanced technology stack drives improvements in operational efficiency customer experience and overall business performance. Further as a mentor and guide to development teams throughout the software development life cycle you will foster a culture of continuous improvement and excellence. Your vision and expertise will be instrumental in facilitating Chubbs digital transformation initiatives positioning our organization for longterm success in an increasingly competitive landscape.
In this role you will:
- Set the technical direction on specific projects by delivering implementable architecture designs that account for technology modernization in a practical and iterative way. Seek guidance or make balanced decisions that account for timetomarket reduction of technical debt supportability and business needs
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to understand and document solution requirements and align business and technology roadmaps
- Collaborate across numerous agile teams to provide end to end solutions across multiple business domains
- Provide architecture governance for solutions across the designated portfolio
- Provide solution direction in collaboration with delivery teams
- Guide and mentor development teams on sound design and coding principles and best practices in areas such as UI/UX integration APIs and Micro Services application and data security DevSecOps and Cloud environments
- Develop and document secure scalable and resilient solution architecture designs aligned to Chubbs global standards and strategies in support of Chubbs digital transformation across the Personal Risk Services Insurance portfolio which meet functional performance and usability requirements
- Define application architecture and cloud migration / modernization roadmaps for the designated portfolio
- Identify evaluate and integrate new data and technologies to meet business needs
- Integrate data and intelligence to enable automate and optimize key processes such as risk identification evaluation & selection; rating; user experience for customers agents and underwriters
- Influence the roadmap and architecture of Chubbs global platforms to enable new capabilities and align with business needs
- Help research and prototype emerging technologies that advance digital transformation
- Ensure alignment and compliance with Chubb technology platform roadmaps architectural principles and standards
Qualifications- Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science or a related field; equivalent industry experience considered
- At least 10 years of experience as an architect delivering endtoend technology solutions ideally in the property and casualty insurance domain and working with policy administration systems
- At least 5 years of experience in understanding and analyzing large systems built on legacy technology (mainframe COBOL DB2 IMS MQ CICS) with the intention of decomposition integration and modernization to a cloudnative architecture
- At least 5 years of experience developing solution architecture designs for cloudnative and hybrid applications (Azure preferred). Cloud certifications are a plus
- At least 3 years of experience working in agile organizations collaborating with Product Owners Engineering Leads and other key Business Operations Legal and Compliance stakeholders in a Scaled Agile framework
- Ability to guide and mentor development teams on sound design and coding principles along with best practices in areas such as integration (API & Microservices) resiliency data and application security DevOps and Cloud
- Experience developing roadmaps outlining the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from current to future state
- Strong relational (Azure SQL DB2 Oracle SQL Server) and NoSQL (MongoDB Cosmos DB) database knowledge
- Strong cloud (Azure preferred) experience in multiple areas from API Management Kubernetes Cosmos DB App service Azure functions Redis cache etc.
- Experience with handson coding in a modern programming language (e.g. C# Java Python etc.) and technologies such as .NET Springboot Camel Kafka MQ JavaScript Angular microservices REST SOAP API Management/Gateway Containers Kubernetes etc.
- Interest in defining highly performant and reliable integration patterns between cloud native microservices and legacy technology (COBOL Smalltalk IMS)
- Experience leveraging and integrating COTS and SaaS solutions. Experience with Insurance industry specific software such as Duck Creek Insurity etc. is a plus
The pay range for the role is $116000 to $198500. The specific offer will depend on an applicants skills and other factors. This role may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program. Chubb offers a comprehensive benefits package more details on which can be found on our careers website. The disclosed pay range estimate may be adjusted for the applicable geographic differential for the location in which the position is filled.
Required Experience:
Senior IC