Solutions Architect (Applications) - Property & Casualty

Job Title: Solution Architect (Applications)

Location: Remote (United States; prefer EST and CST)

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This role is open only to candidates who are authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.

Who We Are

Xceedance provides strategic operations support, technology, and data services to drive efficiencies for insurance organizations worldwide. We collaborate with insurers, reinsurers, MGAs, brokers, and captives to launch products, implement intelligent technology, deploy advanced analytics, and achieve business process optimization. We are committed to adding direct value in the business of insurance and help our clients to embrace change, accelerate innovation, and achieve meaningful business outcomes.

Opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity for a Solution Architect to lead the delivery of a robust foundational solution architecture to accelerate digital transformation, reduce total cost of ownership and contribute to our insurance ecosystem.

If you possess a passion for what you do, we await your innovation at Xceedance.

What You'll Be Doing

Transformation Support & Architecture Leadership

• Actively leads transformation initiatives by contributing domain and technical expertise.
• Align solutions with the overall transformation roadmap and strategic goals.
• Provide consultative input during opportunity assessment and execution phases.
• Provide technology leadership across digital engineering, application modernization, API & integration ecosystems, cloud-native engineering
• Drive best practices for architecture patterns, NFRs, code quality, observability and performance engineering.

Client Advisory & Onshore Leadership

• Act as a trusted advisor to client senior leaders (VP/CXO levels) on application modernization, cloud transformation, and digital engineering strategy.
• Lead client steering committees, architecture review boards, and executive governance forums.
• Translate business objectives into engineering roadmaps with measurable outcomes.

Solutioning, Pre-Sales & Revenue Enablement

• Lead solutioning for strategic pursuits: discovery, target architecture, delivery approach, costing and estimation.
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of customer-focused solutions including: support RFP responses, solution orals, and proactive transformation proposals.
• Build practice offerings aligned to Insurance SI needs and drive account expansion using scalable, reusable solutions.

Large Program Engineering Delivery Ownership

• Lead and govern large application engineering programs involving complex application builds, modernization, and integration transformation across multiple lines of business.
• Own outcomes for large engagements; Delivery predictability and release governance, Defect leakage reduction and quality metrics; Architecture-led delivery, scalability, performance, security and resiliency controls; Program risk mitigation across dependencies and multi-vendor ecosystems
• Drive standardized delivery approach using Agile/SAFe, DevSecOps, test automation, and cloud best practices.
• Ensure high-quality technical decision-making and delivery governance across distributed teams and partners.

What You Bring

• 15+ years of experience in application engineering and delivery leadership, ideally in Technical Architect / Consulting environments.
• 5+ years in leadership roles covering Delivery / Practice / Portfolio / Architecture leadership.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience within insurance domain (P&C/ Reinsurance) and familiarity with insurance platforms (Guidewire/Duck Creek/Socotra/Origami) is required
• Demonstrated leadership in large development programs/projects, including multi-year and multi-release initiatives based on agile/waterfall, distributed engineering teams across geographies, modernization / rebuild / integration transformation programs, complex dependency management and multi-vendor environments
• Prior executive stakeholder management experience gained from onsite engagements in US. Prefer exposure to global engagements such as UK / Australia (or similar international markets)
• Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent.
• Strong expertise across at least 2–3 of: Digital Engineering, Cloud native application Engineering, Integration Engineering, Application Modernization.
• Strong architecture and design capability (security, performance, resiliency, scalability, observability).
• Applied skills in app development like Web API, Web Application, Azure Services, Angular/React and more. (.net Core)
• Expert in designing, architecting, and delivering cloud-native solutions on PaaS, integration, and serverless technologies.
• Ability to work with application architecture, tiers, layers, non-functional requirements (NFRs), APIs, and DevOps automation.
• Exposure to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Enterprise AI, Generative AI (GenAI), Agentic AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Intelligent Automation, AI Strategy, Governance & Innovation.
• Strong delivery governance using Agile/SAFe, DevSecOps, CI/CD, test automation, and release readiness practices. xhyhwjd

What You Can Expect from Us

• A collaborative, entrepreneurial environment where your ideas drive change
• Opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies and a worldwide network of insurance experts
• A culture rooted in teamwork, integrity, continuous learning, and client success

At Xceedance, you will discover the possibility to exceed yourself and grow persistently with us. We offer career development opportunities to our members for a well-rounded development throughout their journey with us. Xceedance is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.