Solution Architect Sr

Company



Munich Re America Services



Location



Amelia
, United States

The Lead Solution Architect plays a critical leadership role in shaping and evolving the IT systems landscape for Insurance Markets in the U.S. market. This role will focus on modernizing a Guidewire-centric application ecosystem and the integrated downstream platforms that support Finance, Regulatory Reporting, Data, and Business Integrations.

Operating within a transformation-focused team, this leader will drive strategic architecture decisions aligned with business outcomes, helping transition the current application-server-based landscape to a modular, service-oriented architecture with CI/CD pipelines and automated delivery.

Core Responsibilities - Architecture

• Partner with business stakeholders to align technology solutions with U.S.-based Personal Lines P&C insurance goals and regulatory needs.
• Define and evolve the architecture vision for a Guidewire-based environment, with emphasis on modular design, decoupling, and service-based integration patterns.
• Lead solution designs that support key insurance capabilities including policy, billing, claims, underwriting, and customer servicing, as well as downstream systems like finance, regulatory, and data platforms.
• Ensure architectural consistency, scalability, and security across systems, guiding implementation from concept through delivery.
• Champion and implement patterns supporting a shift from monolithic application servers to distributed modular components with CI/CD integration.
• Create and maintain architectural standards, target state diagrams, and guiding principles that support strategic modernization goals.
• Provide architectural oversight and design governance for solution implementations, with a focus on reusability, performance, and compliance.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects and domain specialists to ensure platform coherence, including cloud readiness and observability frameworks.
• Presents to Business partners in a way that describes clear understanding of the business requirements and covey/propose technology solutions
• Often deals with cross-domain challenges, ensuring different components work together as a cohesive system

Core Responsibilities - Business and Technology Alignment

• Translate complex business problems and regulatory needs into practical, sustainable technology solutions, specifically in the U.S. P&C Personal Lines insurance context.
• Act as the bridge between non-technical stakeholders and engineering teams, ensuring mutual understanding and alignment.
• Provide architectural leadership across multiple disciplines, including Guidewire platform capabilities, integration architecture (API, ETL, messaging), financial systems, data warehousing, and regulatory technology (regtech).
• Partner with delivery and DevOps teams to embed architecture best practices into the full delivery lifecycle, supporting agile delivery and automation.

Knowledge and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master's preferred).
• 10+ years of IT experience, with strong architecture leadership in U.S. Property & Casualty insurance, specifically Personal Lines.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Guidewire InsuranceSuite (PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ClaimCenter) including configuration, integration, and data architecture.
• Proven ability to architect and modernize downstream ecosystems including:
• Finance and billing/reporting integrations
• Regulatory data extracts and compliance tooling
• Data pipelines and analytics solutions
• Familiarity with U.S. insurance regulatory environments (NAIC, DOI, ISO standards).
• Deep experience with integration strategies - REST APIs, event-driven architecture, batch processing, and middleware technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to architect for cloud-native deployment, CI/CD pipelines, containerization (e.g., Docker/Kubernetes), and service mesh.
• Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities, fostering architectural excellence across solution and platform teams.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present to senior business and technology leaders.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, iterative delivery, and DevSecOps best practices.
• The ability to foster collaboration and teamwork among cross-functional teams, breaking down silos and encouraging knowledge sharing.
• Thought leadership - able to monitor market trends and to guide creative thinking on future technology capabilities which will help increase the business value of Munich Re
• A willingness to mentor and coach junior architects and team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement
• Ability to work in a demanding, high pace environment; ability to effectively identify priorities and manage time

Competencies for the Role

• Team orientation: Work cooperatively and flexibly with other members of the team with a full understanding of the role to be played as a team member.
• Achievement/results-orientation: Get things done well and the ability to set and meet challenging goals, create own measures of excellence and constantly seek ways of improving performance.
• Problem-solving: Skilled at balancing short-term delivery constraints with long-term architectural integrity.
• Flexibility: Adapt and work effectively in different situations and to carry out a variety of tasks.
• Customer focus: Take constant care in looking after the interests of external and internal customers. Ensure that their wants, needs and expectations are given due consideration and that all efforts are made to meet them wherever fair and reasonable, in line with any standards from an industry regulator.
• Share knowledge: Share knowledge about the role you perform fully and willingly with others, where this is relevant, in the interests of the organization.
• Self-development: Take responsibility for own career and actively support 'continuing professional development'.
• Commercial/business awareness: The capacity to understand the business opportunities and priorities of the organization and constantly seek methods of ensuring that the organization continues to be business-like and continues to meet the standards and requirements of its regulators.
• Leadership: Drives a shared architectural vision across programs; mentors colleagues and promotes a culture of continuous improvement.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate enterprise goals into architectural blueprints and actionable roadmaps.
• Communication and Influence: Ability to explain complex solutions in clear business terms;build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups.