Lead Solutions Engineer

Job Summary:

If you’re ready to join a team driving cutting edge digital transformation company-wide, please read on. You might know Chubb as the world’s largest publicly traded P&C insurer, but did you also know that we built a market-leading Insurtech from the ground up in only a few years? As part of Chubb’s North America Solutions Engineering team, you will have the opportunity to work with modern technologies such as GenAI and Cloud, while reducing existing technical debt and growing Chubb’s digital channels to drive positive impact to the business bottom line.

As a Digital Solution Engineer at Chubb, you will be responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation of technology solutions that meet the needs of the organization. You will collaborate with various stakeholders, including business leaders, project managers, software developers, and infrastructure teams, to define technical requirements and develop secure, scalable, resilient, and efficient solutions. You will also provide guidance and support to development teams throughout the software development life cycle.

In This Role, You Will

• Set the technical direction on specific projects by delivering implementable architecture designs that account for technology modernization in a practical and iterative way. Seek guidance or make balanced decisions that account for time-to-market, reduction of technical debt, supportability, and business needs
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to understand and document solution requirements and align business and technology roadmaps
• Collaborate across numerous agile teams to provide end to end solutions across multiple business domains
• Provide architecture governance for solutions across the designated portfolio
• Provide solution direction in collaboration with delivery teams
• Guide and mentor development teams on sound design and coding principles and best practices in areas such as UI/UX, integration, APIs and Micro Services, application and data security, DevSecOps, and Cloud environments
• Develop and document secure, scalable, and resilient solution architecture designs aligned to Chubb’s global standards and strategies in support of Chubb’s digital transformation across the Small and Middle Market Commercial Insurance portfolio which meet functional, performance, and usability requirements
• Define application architecture and cloud migration / modernization roadmaps for the designated portfolio
• Identify, evaluate, and integrate new data and technologies to meet business needs
• Integrate data and intelligence to enable, automate, and optimize key processes such as risk identification, evaluation & selection; rating; user experience for customers, agents, and underwriters
• Influence the roadmap and architecture of Chubb’s global platforms to enable new capabilities and align with business needs
• Help research and prototype emerging technologies that advance digital transformation
• Ensure alignment and compliance with Chubb technology platform roadmaps, architectural principles, and standards

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field; equivalent industry experience considered
• At least 10+ years of hands-on experience developing solution architecture designs including integration, security, and cloud. Must have an interest in continuing to partner with engineers at code/detailed design level
• At least 5 years of experience developing solution architecture designs for cloud native and hybrid applications (Azure preferred). Cloud certifications are a plus
• At least 3 years of experience in UI frameworks like Angular (preferred), Node, React, etc.
• At least 3 years of experience working in agile organizations collaborating with Product Owners, Engineering Leads and other key Business, Operations, Legal, and Compliance stakeholders in a Scaled Agile framework
• Experience in the Insurance or Financial Services industry is preferred. An understanding of Insurance business domains, especially in commercial property and casualty space, is highly desirable
• Ability to guide and mentor development teams on sound design and coding principles along with best practices in areas such as integration (API & Microservices), resiliency, data and application security, DevOps, and Cloud
• Experience with hands-on coding in a modern programming language (e.g. C#, Java, Python, etc.) and technologies such as .NET, Springboot, Camel, Kafka, MQ, JavaScript, Angular, Node.js, microservices, REST, SOAP, API Management/Gateway, Containers, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience leveraging and integrating COTS and SaaS solutions. Experience with Insurance industry specific software such as Duck Creek, Insurity, etc. is a plus
• Proven ability to apply modern design principals, practices, and patterns
• Proven discipline in concurrently managing multiple initiatives
• Experience developing roadmaps outlining the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from current to future state
• Strong relational and NoSQL database knowledge
• Strong cloud (Azure preferred) experience in multiple areas from API Management, Kubernetes, Cosmos DB, App service, Azure functions, Redis cache etc.
• At least 1 year of DevOps/DevSecOps experience & familiarity with Jenkins or similar tools
• At least 2 year of experience using API testing tools like Postman/SOAP UI, etc.
• Team player with strong communication, problem solving, analytical, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Experience working with global teams across North America and India

About Us

Chubb is a world leader in insurance. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance, and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling expertise and local operations globally.

At Chubb, we are committed to equal employment opportunity and compliance with all laws and regulations pertaining to it. Our policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other conditions or opportunities of employment, without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, mental and physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, age, and pregnancy or any other characteristic protected by law. Performance and qualifications are the only basis upon which we hire, assign, promote, compensate, develop and retain employees. Chubb prohibits all unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation against any individual who reports discrimination or harassment.