Job Description
Job Title
Technical Lead - Architecture
Location
Gurugram-+0C
Department
Digital Technology
Function
Enterprise Architecture and Solutions
Reporting to
Sr. Solution Architect
Band
4A
About Axis Max Life Insurance
Axis Max Life Insurance Limited, formerly known as Max Life Insurance Company Ltd., is a Joint Venture between Max Financial Services Limited (“MFSL”) and Axis Bank Limited. Axis Max Life Insurance offers comprehensive protection and long-term savings life insurance solutions through its multi-channel distribution, including agency and third-party distribution partners. It has built its operations over two decades through a need-based sales process, a customer-centric approach to engagement and service delivery and trained human capital. For more information, please visit the company website at www.maxlifeinsurance.com.
Job Summary
Responsible for providing deep technical expertise in designing and delivering end to end high performance, scalable & flexible solutions using cutting edge/emerging technologies including Mobility/Responsive Web apps, APIs, application & data Integration, scalable databases, Analytics, DevOps, Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS and Containerization). He/ She would be also responsible to experiment, explore and demonstrate application of new technologies by means of conducting quick prototypes to solve business problems. Work with the direction from Solution Architect/ Enterprise Architect and co-create solutions with rest of the IT delivery teams
Key Responsibilities
• Work closely with various business partners and other departments to create future proof solutions covering digital, automation, APIs, integration and data
• Provide technical expertise in solving/troubleshooting performance & other non-functional requirements
• Design integrations and patterns in accordance with architectural standards and drive changes to standards, policies and procedures based on input from service managers and service partners
• Support critical projects in all phases of delivery on a need basis
• Review Application, Integration and Solution Architecture to analyze the current IT ecosystem and develop opportunities for improvements
• Experiment, explore and demonstrate application of new technologies by means of conducting quick prototypes to solve business problems.
• Maintain good technical relationship with partner’s (Banca/broker/aggregators/vendors) technical teams.
Other Responsibilities
• Defining and reviewing continuous delivery, continuous integration, continuous testing (DevOps pipelines) that serve the purpose of provisioning and quality code delivery
• Stakeholder management at strategic levels in both technical and business functions
• Focus on continuous service improvement and thought leadership, drive strategic initiatives to help business and partners to achieve their goals
Measures of Success
• Alignment of IT landscape to overall vision and blue prints
• Faster, better and cheaper delivery of applications via technology
• Exceptional user(internal/external) experience, automation and operational efficiency by adoption of new cutting edge technology solutions to solve business problems
• Trusted partnership with other departments of IT and business
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies, industry trends and best practices
Key skills required
• Extensive experience in areas of technologies like Java Frameworks/Javascipt, databases, queues, streams, AWS cloud serverless and containers.
• At least 2 years of designing hybrid cloud applications and migrate existing workloads to the cloud.
• Able to recommend the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database or security requirements.
• Demonstrated competency with application and data integration platforms (Mulesoft, Apigee, EDW, etc.) and patterns – SOA, APIs, Webservices, Microservices, ETL, Event Processing, BPM, ESB.
• Understanding of BFSI domain, Open Architecture and application integration discipline, concepts and best practices
• Define cost control mechanisms by suggesting architectural changes & optimizing resource utilization.
• Any prior experience on Implementation of AI, Data Analytics will be a plus.
Desired qualification and experience
• B.E. / B. Tech / MCA
• 7-10 years of experience with hands-on software development background.
• Should have architected and delivered at least 2-3 large projects in a technology organization
