Max Life Insurance - Solution Architect

Job Description :

Position: Solution Architect

Department : Information Technology

Function: IT- Enterprise Architecture

Location : Gurgaon

About Max Life Insurance:

- Max Life Insurance, one of the leading non-bank promoted private life insurers, is a joint venture between Max Financial Services Ltd. and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. Ltd. Max Financial Services Ltd. is part of the Max Group, which is a leading Indian multi-business corporation, while Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance is a member of the MS&AD Insurance Group, which is amongst the leading insurers in the world.

- Max Life Insurance offers comprehensive long term savings, protection and retirement solutions through its high quality agency distribution and multi-channel distribution partners. A financially stable company with a strong track record over the last 15 years, Max Life Insurance offers superior investment expertise.

- Max Life Insurance has the vision 'To be the most admired life insurance company by securing the financial future of our customers'. The company has a strong customer-centric approach focused on advice-based sales and quality service delivered through its superior human capital. In the financial year 2016, Max Life recorded Gross Written Premium of Rs. 9,216 crore with sum assured of Rs. 2,71,633 crore and Asset Under Management of Rs. 35,824 crore as on 31st March 2016."

We Stand for :

Caring : An imperative value that emphasises on individuals who are extremely compassionate and demonstrate respect for people. It is about being proactive to offer guidance and help to fellow colleagues. Being open to new ideas and going an extra mile to implement them.

Collaboration ; A value which is all about being boundary-less in approach by going beyond one's direct responsibilities to achieve functional and organizational goals. It is about believing & creating opportunities for self and others to improve working relationships.

Customer Obession : It is not just about being Customer focused, however, it is being obsessed with delivering exceptional customer experience. Proactively making extraordinary efforts to deliver superior quality output, hence, creating customer delight.

Growth Mindset : A value which drives and defines us to challenge the status quo by being ambitious, ready to put in extra efforts & demonstrate courage to achieve exceptional results. It is about seeking & creating opportunities to invest in self, fellow colleagues to sharpen their skills and cultivate high performing culture.

Job Summary :

Responsible for providing solution architecture in creating & delivering end to end high performance, scalable & flexible digital solutions using cutting edge/emerging technologies including Mobility/Responsive/Progressive apps, Content Management (CMS), APIs&Microservices, application & data Integration using technologies like Kafka/Rabbit MQ, scalable data management, Analytics, DevOps, Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS and Containerization)and Artificial Intelligence. Work with the direction from Enterprise Architect and co-create solutions with rest of the IT and business champions

Key Responsibilities/ Key Deliverables :

- Solution Architecture for applications/ecosystem using best practices, architecture patterns

- Defining and reviewing continuous delivery, continuous integration, continuous testing (DevOps pipelines) that serve the purpose of provisioning and quality code delivery

- Evaluating and implementing new frameworks, tools as part of projects

- Keep technology stack refreshed

- Set-up logging, monitoring, alerting, dashboards for hybrid cloud solution

- Create & maintain all architecture artifacts

- Perform detailed review of Low Level Designs and code reviews for critical/framework level elements and enforce best practices

- Work closely with various business partners and other departments to create future proof solutions covering digital, automation, SOA, integration and data

- Detailed architecture & design review with IT team and business partners

- Provide technical expertise in solving/troubleshooting performance & other non-functional requirements

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES :

- To maintain a healthy working relationship with the business users and other members of the IT Team

- Responsible for overall performance, cost and delivery of technology solutions

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

Key Relationships (Internal /External):

Key competencies/skills required :

- Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise.

- Experience in designing building server-less cloud solution

- Able to choice & recommend the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database or security requirements.

- Provide guidance on issues such as performance, cost, disaster recovery or security concerns.

- Passionate Problem Solver

- Can do attitude, self-driven with sound communication & articulation skills

- End to End Solution Architecture of applications & data for web/mobile applications with backend integration

- Diversified technology experience (Breadth)

- Experienced in architectural styles including SOA, Microservices, ESB, Messaging, Event Driven Architecture, Integration patterns

- Application of multiple design patterns like 12-factor, SOLID, enterprise integration patterns

- Experience in developing and deploying Cloud Native applications on AWS/Azure

- Experience in addressing scalability & performance tuning of applications

- At least 3-4 years of hands-on experience in design & development of rich web/mobile apps using technologies like HTML5, Angular/ReactJS or similar JS frameworks, NodeJS, Native/Hybrid, Java/.NET, SQL, RDBMS(Oracle), NoSQL using MongoDB/Cassandra or similar

- Must have experience on solving Performance, Scalability challenges in current/previous assignments

- Must have worked on architecting applications on Cloud (AWS/Azure/OpenShift etc.)

- Must have utilized Continuous Integration & Delivery tools/practicesusing Jenkins

- Any prior experience on Implementation of AI, Data Analytics will be a plus

- Good to have hands on experience on messaging, streaming platforms

Job Specifications :

- B.E / MCA from a reputed institute

- 10-14 years of strong experience of Solution Architecture with hands-on software development background

- Should have architected and delivered at least 2-3 large projects in a technology organization

- Should be working or should have worked with reputed organizations or startups