Principal Architect

Helping careers take flight. Reshaping an industry. Enable your career to be Made on Duck Creek.

WHAT WE ARE ABOUT:

Duck Creek is an insurance industry leader, driving transformation and delivering modern SaaS solutions that help insurers set a new standard and revolutionize how consumers interact with insurance companies.

As a leading technology provider to the insurance industry, we don’t just build great software to help insurers conduct business. We deliver software with a fully managed service model that empowers insurance companies to transform their business. With Duck Creek OnDemand, insurers are introducing groundbreaking new products faster than ever before, making smarter data-driven decisions, enhancing the customer experience to meet evolving expectations, and adapting to shifting market conditions and regulatory requirements.

Duck Creek is proud to be a Remote-First employer, empowering our employees with the choice to work from an office, from home or on a hybrid schedule. Our remote-first environment fosters inclusion, collaboration, and ensures consistent employee experience regardless of location. We support our employees in making a decision that allows them to be the most productive, they can be both at work and at home.

If working in a fast paced, rapidly evolving company that is transforming one of the world’s oldest and largest industries into a standard for innovation and open exchange sounds exciting, let us know.  We are excited for your career to be Made on Duck Creek.

Title: Principal Architect

Location: India, Remote

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Acts as an architecture leader in a domain area in multiple or all of the following ways:
  • Acts as a Domain Architect for an entire domain area, representing the design/architecture decisions of that domain area.
  • Refine technical backlog items for 3+ project teams in the same domain area.
  • Creation of the overall solution concept or architectural direction for 3+ project teams.
  • Provides guidance and support to the developers of 3+ project teams in the completion of stories against design/architecture plans
  • Represents the design/architecture decisions of 3+ project teams in the same area.
• Drives continuous improvement of architects across the whole Suite
• Participates in pre-sales and customer technical presentations
• Drives and coordinates our technical position with key vendors such as Microsoft
• Creates a conceptual design/architecture for large scale software solutions, working independently.
• Designs, codes, and/or configures solutions for Agile stories with key architectural impact.
• Performs other related duties and activities as required.

WHAT YOU’VE DONE:

Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree, or higher education level, or its foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Information Sciences, and/or related field.
• Total Work Experience:  20+ years typical in software development
• Architect Experience: 12 years minimum as a Technical Architect designing, building architecture from scratch, converting old ones into modern architectures etc.

Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities:

• Expert knowledge of object-oriented design.
• Expert knowledge of .NET & C# language and associated frameworks.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise application architecture patterns and distributed software patterns.
• Expert in relational data storage including database design, query optimization, and database operational considerations.
• Expert in Cloud platforms.
• Expert in XML technologies, especially XML document and schema design, as well as XPath and XSLT.
• Expert in software security best practices.
• Expert in the full stack of technologies.
• Any insurance domain knowledge would be added advantage.
• Possess excellent analytical ability and be a compulsive problem solver.
• Must have excellent communication skills, both oral and written to all audiences (technical and non-technical).
• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance to meet deadlines.
• Ability to manage others to deadlines.
• Highly experienced in daily software development activities such as unit testing, source code management, estimation and root cause analysis.

WHAT WE STAND FOR  :

Our global company celebrates & leverages the differences each employee brings to the table. Our success is a direct result of an inclusive culture where opportunities to learn from one another occur regardless of title, seniority, or background. This collaborative and team-oriented approach is at the core of how we operate and continuously improves our products, services, and systems.  As such, Duck Creek is committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and applicants – to recruit, hire, train, and reward employees for their individual abilities, achievements, and experience without regard to race, color, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, marital, military, or any other protected status. 

We strive to be an example to the world of inclusion, diversity, and equity in all things – where employees are free to be their authentic selves in the workplace and in the communities in which we live. We believe in leading by example and are proud of the diversity of our team and our shared commitment to our Core Values: We Prioritize Respect; We Listen; We Care; We Add Value; and We Lead.

To learn more about our inclusive company culture, values, DE&I initiatives, and people, please visit: https://www.duckcreek.com/life-at-duck-creek/

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Duck Creek Technologies does not accept, nor will we pay a fee for any hires resulting from unsolicited headhunter or agency resumes.

Other Requirements:

• Travel: 0-20%
• 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.

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