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Software Architect

Verisk
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 10 Oct 2023

About the role

Company Description

We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

Job Description

We are looking for someone who has strong technical, design, documentation, and leadership experience to join our architecture team as a Solutions Architect developing technical solutions to support our industry leading property claims solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Design solutions holistically in the context of business, data, application, technology, integration, security, and DevOps needs.
  • Run engineering projects that have business and product level impact and set a new standard for engineering processes, design, and architecture.
  • Serves as a bridge between enterprise goals and technology development.
  • Proactively engage stakeholders across the organization.
  • Ensure projects stay on time, on budget, and are effective in solving the problem it was developed to solve.
  • Communicate clearly and be able to translate technical details into language that non-technical stakeholders can understand and vice versa.
  • Document business, customer, and technical workflows, architecture, and solutions in a way that implementation teams can hit the ground running.
  • Thrive in an environment with multiple legacy code bases, varying team dynamics, and engaged and demanding customers.
  • Perform design, debug, and performance analysis on solutions.
  • Advocate for process improvements and helping develop solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership to a team throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Lead the development of proof-of-concept projects to validate your proposed solutions.
  • Review and validate solution designs from other team members.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
  • Strong technical writing skills
  • Experience in cloud architecture and related patterns
  • Knowledge of software design patterns and principles
  • Experience with CI/CD systems such as Azure DevOps
  • Experience with relational and non-relational databases
  • Experience with distributed systems methods and practices
  • Experience with automated testing and software verification
  • Ability to master new skills quickly and apply them to improve processes
  • Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with others
  • Ability to get buy-in, manage projects, and lead teams

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Additional Information

In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale.

We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.

Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate.
• Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other
• Add Value by delivering immediate and sustained results that drive positive outcomes
• Innovate by redefining what’s possible, embracing challenges, and pushing boundaries

Verisk Businesses

Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision