Challenging convention. Trying new things. Reshaping an industry.  

The team at Duck Creek helps insurance companies bring amazing ideas to life quickly and easily with software that thinks and works like they do. We're fueled by sharing ideas openly, challenging conventions, trying new things, and valuing "Why not?" over "Why?" Our certainty that there is always a better way to do things keeps carriers ahead of their competition and is helping to reshape an industry.  

If having a hand in transforming one of the world’s oldest and largest industries into a standard for innovation, open exchange, and peerless user experience sounds exciting, let us know.  We may be looking for you.

Technical Architect

The Technical Architect provides technical guidance on client engagements, including serving as a resource to the project team and the client by evaluating and proposing technical alternatives for resolving business and technology issues.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Constructs SQL queries and data analysis techniques to effectively analyze complex data patterns
• Specifies and reviews the usage of existing Business Intelligence tools to assist clients in data integration, data extraction and/or reporting capabilities
• Works closely with data engineers to ensure the architecture components interact to fulfill the requirements and meet performance goals
• Provides technical guidance on client engagements, including serving as a resource to the project team and the client by evaluating and proposing technical alternatives for resolving business and technology issues
• Works within Technical Architecture team to define the integrations required to achieve the business imperatives, how the components relate to each other and meet application performance goals
• Identifies cross-capability and cross-release issues that affect the business architecture integrity.
• Defines the complete technical infrastructure environment
• Maintains current knowledge of all relevant technology developments and seek opportunities to deploy new technologies that benefit the client
• Designs and develops cost effective solutions that meet functional, technical, and performance requirements
• Performs Design / Code Reviews
• Participates in Conformance Reviews
• Performs other related duties and activities as required.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS

Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required or higher education level, or its foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information and Technology, Software or Computer Engineering, or a related engineering/computer field
• Minimum of 8 years’ professional experience in software development
  • Or Master’s degree plus minimum of 6 years’ related professional experience
• Experience in customer facing roles
• Deep experience with a breadth of technologies, including C#, SQL, Visual Studio, Microsoft Foundation technologies, Windows Server 2012/2016 administration and configuration, JavaScript, XSLT, XML, HTML, CSS, AJAX

Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities:

• Demonstrated professional experience with SQL Server Integrated Services (SSIS), or comparable experience in another ETL tool
• Demonstrated professional experience with Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and ETL tools
• Ability to identify and understand technology trends within the industry
• Experience with .Net Solutions and SQL and relational database design
• Demonstrated experience with XML and XSL
• Experience/knowledge of P&C Insurance software applications
• Experience/knowledge of software development life cycle for P&C insurance software
• Experience with systems integration (Policy, Billing, claims, Reinsurance, third-party systems)
• Experience with implementation of Duck Creek Example Platform solutions for Policy Administration, Billing and/or ASW Claims preferred
• Demonstrated experience leading large teams and managing employee performance

Other Requirements:

• Travel: 50-75%
• Work Authorization: Legally authorized to work in the country of the job location.
• Physical: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.