Apac Cloud Solution Architect, Chubb Life

Reporting to the APAC Head of Life Architect, the Lead Solution Architect for Asia Pacific is responsible for the delivery of Solution Architecture Designs, Governance alignment, Blueprinting, Technology Enablement, Research and Education in the region.

**Responsibilities**

**Software Architecture and Solutioning**
- Provide governance, solution direction, best practices in collaboration with regional solution and delivery team
- Interpret Business Requirements Specifications in order to guide Solution Architecture Specifications that align customer expectations and IT capability
- Define Design Principles aligned with Chubb’s global standard, Cloud and hosting strategy, Addressing Security Gaps in the solution
- Develop flexible, adaptable, modular and reusable business solution designs in collaboration with Global Architect Community, product delivery and operation support teams
- Evaluate and recommend the use of cutting-edge technologies and methods, considering their pros & technical limitations keeping aligned with Chubb standard
- Closely work with the devlivery and development team lead in building the technology modernization such as DevOps and cloud migration
- Adopt Chubb global standards for Integration such as API design frameworks, service orcherstration, rules management, service monitoring etc., over tools such as Camel, Drools, Camunda, Eagle etc.,
- Adopt front end standards and technologies such as Angular, Node JS, Java Script, Bootstrap etc., for any front end development
- Ensure data encyption and security controls are well thought through during the software design process and adhere to the global standards of Chubb group
- Provide key solution inputs into the APAC Architectural Governance Process and influence the definition of the annual investment plan in alignment with global, divisional, and regional strategies and roadmaps

**Technical Collaboration**
- Ensure validation and guidance on solution design implementation throughout the development lifecycle
- Evolve the APAC Technology Landscape taking advantage of available and emerging technology capabilities in support of and in alignment with global, divisional, and regional business development and transformation strategies
- Collaborate with EA and Global Engineering Community. Share and listen to experiences and technology insights of members globally to improve Life solutions and contribute value to Chubb as a whole.
- Within Technology, be able to communicate and collaborate with system owners to develop a technical direction and an overarching strategy to move a platform forward.

**Business Partnership**: Work closely with the Chubb Life’s Group Technology Office Leadership and Country-based IT leaders to ensure full alignment of Architecture, Standard and selection of technologies to their business vision and positively engage key stakeholders to ensure technology is seen as an enabler of strategy.

**Technical Quality**:Review the solution designs being produced by the development teams. Ensure that designs adhere to the overall architectural blueprint by reviewing the technical documentation generated by the teams.

**Technology Governance**:As digital business, ecosystems and technologies gain increased momentum, ensure IT governance remains current and effectively supports the Chubb Life vision.

**Risk Management**:passionate with ensuring privacy and protection of customer, partner and employee data plus takes full ownership for all technology-related emerging risks and the management of them.

**Team Leadership**:Sets a good ethical example and is seen as the role model with upholding and modeling Chubb values, even in challenging situations, when making decisions and communicating to others.

**Core Competencies**

**Technical Acumen**: a strong technology foundation to ensure you positively guide technical discussions and solution design to optimize business solutions and services. Open-source technologies, cloud enablement and strategy, group alignment of platform strategy are some of the key competencies required. Hands-on technologist with extensive engineering background

**Strategic Focus**: Incorporates a long-term perspective on the Chubb Life Group and the markets in which it operates into, both planning and execution.

**Influence**: Ability to operate within a matrix organization where reporting lines can be blurred requiring collaboration and influencing skills to get things done, even without formal authority.

**Execution**: Effectively and efficiently uses personal initiative, managerial authority and organizational resources to deliver on commitments.

**Inclusive Team Leadership**: Fosters high collaboration within own team and across the company and constantly acts and thinks “One Chubb”. Actively seeks to build a diverse team leveraging different capabilities.

**Additional Requirements**
- Deep industry knowledge on Life Insurance and related technologies. Must have experience in pr