Financial Services Transformation - Insurance Architect - Senior Manager

Industry/Sector

Insurance

Specialism

Functional & Industry Technologies

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

A career within Functional and Industry Technologies services will provide you with the opportunity to build secure and new digital experiences for customers, employees, and suppliers. We focus on improving apps or developing new apps for traditional and mobile devices as well as conducting usability testing to find ways to improve our clients’ user experience.

As part of our team, you’ll help clients harness technology systems in financial services focusing on areas such as insurance, sales performance management, retirement and pension, asset management, and banking & capital markets.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.
• Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
• Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
• Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
• Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.
• Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
• Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
• Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Preferred Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Associate

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

Demonstrates proven, extensive success managing teams to understand business strategies, envision and prioritize business capabilities from Product and Distribution through to Billing and Claims, design solutions that involve creating business and technology implementation road maps, provide business and technology architecture recommendations, and, utilize tools and techniques to develop and implement project phases, including the following:

• Technical architectures and products used including general capabilities (i.e web, service, data, and infrastructure) and insurance specific (i.e. Guidewire, EIS, Duck Creek, etc.) to support the creation of client-driven transformation solutions throughout the entire transformation life-cycle; and,
• Application of technical knowledge to understand existing environments, current and emerging technology trends, software packages and technology vendor marketplaces.

Demonstrates proven extensive knowledge and success as a team leader managing and executing the following areas: 

• Enterprise-level technical solutions within specific Insurance markets such as P&C, Life, Annuities, Group & Retirement;
• Collaboration with Enterprise Technical Architects to create and maintain strategic roadmaps, principles, standards and reference architectures - specifically insurance-related architectures, including policy administration systems;
• Engagement with business executives to define and document strategy and enabling IT capabilities and the necessary iterations;
• Guidance provided to Project Architects to develop requirements and establish alignment with business architecture, enterprise and functional area strategic roadmaps;
• Alignment with internal teams to verify budget and resource commitment to support roadmaps (via architecture dependencies and prioritization); and,
• Opportunity identification and promotion for cross-business sharing and re-use of application components, rationalizing application portfolios and integrated architectures.

Demonstrates proven extensive abilities and success with managing and executing the following areas: 

• Identifying and addressing client needs: build relationships with clients; develop an awareness of Firm services; communicate with the client in an organized and knowledgeable manner; deliver clear requests for information; demonstrate flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks; and communicate and manage conflicts;
• Developing strategy; as well as write, communicate, facilitate, and present cogently; to and/or for all levels of Insurance industry audiences, clients and internal staff /management - documenting effectively, using non-technical business terms and vocabulary that are understood clearly by all users and co-workers; and, coordinating, facilitating and making presentations;
• Designing and leading FS Insurance architecture engagements aligned to a client's business strategy - searching and analyzing large, complex data sets; conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses; understanding and documenting existing business systems and technology; translating end-state business and technology models into architectural blueprints; developing business and technology solution models (conceptual, logical, physical, as-built), architecture diagrams, drawings, and visual communications; and,
• Coaching, mentoring and supporting systems development teams in implementing architectures.

Demonstrates proven abilities and experience with technologies such as the following:

• Insurance technologies such as Guidewire, EIS, Duck Creek;
• Web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap framework, Angular JS, ReactJS, ViewJS, Yeoman, D3js, Nodejs, jQuery;
• Data architecture, data modeling and data management across relationship, columnar and noSQL technologies like SQL Server, MongoDB, Vertica, neo4j;
• Big data technologies like Hadoop (Hortwonworks, Cloudera, Azure HDInsight, Amazon EMR), Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch and others;
• Service creation and orchestration using ESBs like Mulesoft, Talend;
• Advanced analytics development experience with R, Python a plus;
• Architecting solutions across on premise and cloud a plus; and
• Cloud based data and analytics native PaaS components in Azure, Google Cloud, AWS.

Travel Requirements

Up to 80%

Job Posting End Date

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Applications will be accepted until the position is filled or the posting is removed, unless otherwise set forth on the following webpage. Please visit this link for information about anticipated application deadlines: https://pwc.to/us-application-deadlines

The salary range for this position is: $130,000 - $256,000, plus individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance