Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group, a Fortune 500 company. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.

At Great American, we value diversity and recognize the benefits gained when people from different cultures, backgrounds and experiences work collaboratively to achieve business results. We are intentionally focused on fostering an inclusive culture and know valuing diversity is an essential leadership quality. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered and enabled to perform at their best.

Great American is looking for a dynamic architect with experience in designing and developing complex Digital software systems and applications. The individual will work with product owners, subject matter experts, and product managers to design and deliver customer value.

Responsibilities

• Define current state and target state architecture for the strategic applications, delivering best-in-class solutions

• Create the solution architecture that provides the blueprint for the development teams based on business concepts, goals & objectives, and high-level requirements

• Design and develop system architecture for scalable systems

• Research, architect, and drive complex technical solutions, consisting of multiple technologies to meet the system requirement

• Conduct technology reviews, assessments, and dependency mapping exercises for clients to best understand current client technological environments

• Provide hands-on leadership to drive POC work for new technologies

• Analyze current client technological stage and propose improvements and future implementations

• Communicate architectural and technical decisions to all key stakeholders

• Provide technical oversight and direction for delivery teams

• Provide leadership on UI / UX Design and frameworks

Background and Work Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or a related engineering field

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with 3+ years leading teams and architecting systems

• 3+ years of working with Digital technologies

Technical skills

• Highly proficient in a variety of technologies vertically and horizontally. Being proficient in multiple stacks is preferred.

• Experience with or strong knowledge of client facing websites and mobile technologies and frameworks

• Proficient across UI/UX design cycle – well versed with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and UI frameworks

• Experience with No-code Low-code platforms like Unqork is desirable

• Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, containerization, real-time and batch integration mechanisms/protocols

• Experience building internet scale web services/API platforms from the ground up

• Strong understanding and experience in OOP & SOA principles, Event-driven Architecture, Enterprise design patterns, industry best practices

• Knowledge of various database technologies and use-cases (e.g., Relational, NoSQL, Graph, Caching Options, etc.)

• Strong knowledge / experience in all things Digital – Chatbots, application of AI/ML to solve business problems, customer communication - Texting / Email / Document processing etc.

• 5+ years of development experience using modern programming languages (Java, Python, Go, JavaScript)

• Experience with Cloud technologies (Azure, AWS)

• Experience with Digital Analytics including Customer Behavioral Analytics

• Experience with CI/CD tools and techniques

• Good understanding of Security Architecture patterns (LDAP, oAuth, SAML etc.)

• Good understanding of Agile (Scrum, DAD, and the like) methodologies

Other Requirements

• Superior communication skills, both oral and written; is clear, concise, sincere, and persuasive. Excellent listening skills and displays a genuine interest in the voice of others.

• Comfortable communicating ideas and insights to senior management

• Ability to mobilize and persuade others

• Intellectual curiosity to keep pace with technological advancements and tools

• Accountable and able to stick to hard deadlines

• Able to collaborate and work closely with colleagues to identify opportunities and to develop solutions

• Able to prioritize and easily switch between projects

• Strong analytical skills to quickly find solutions or assess the company’s digital experience needs

• The ideal candidate will be passionate about data and digital technology and stay up to date with the latest developments in the field.

• Experience with Insurance industry is highly desirable

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Benefits:

We offer competitive healthcare, retirement and paid time off benefits.