JOB DESCRIPTION

Underwriting Platform Architect

Chubb is the world's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurer. 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.

The Underwriting Platform Architect (this role) will be responsible for the architecture, design, performance, build, deployment and support of core insurance platforms for Chubb built on Duck Creek Technology or other approved underwriting platforms. A suitable candidate is a successful, experienced, and accomplished technology leader with significant hands-on experience in cross platform design and has a deep passion for technology and architecture.

This role will be required to plan, manage, monitor as well as influence, differentiate, and guide both business and technologies teams across multiple divisions of Chubb through the various phase of the SDLC. The candidate is expected to actively collaborate with the business, business architects, and BA's along with development teams, test teams, Enterprise Architects, Information Security, Data & Analytics, Digital Technology and other shared services teams to build cutting edge underwriting and policy admin platforms which push the norms/boundaries of Duck Creek platform all with a cloud first mentality.

Scope/Responsibilities

• Responsible for architecture & design of products on Duck Creek Policy or another underwriting platform including design of inheritance models, data models, common capabilities, and integrations.
• Owns underwriting platform solutions and designs/develops technology strategy/patterns/frameworks to deliver those solutions effectively and efficiently while maximizing reuse.
• Act as a broker between divergent business and IT teams to bring them together, share knowledge, solve problems, design common reusable assets and maximize the use of existing capabilities and frameworks.
• Work closely with project management and delivery leads to identify key activities and owners while ensuring alignment and feasibility of all planned deliverables and related dependencies and include all optimization feedback
• Build and maintain relationships with our business and IT stakeholders across the enterprise while providing support, updates, and issue resolutions for their respective platforms.
• Support infrastructure teams in build out, availability, performance, reliability and ensure that all non-functional system requirements will be met.
• Stays on top of Duck Creek Technology platform and other approved underwriting platforms as well as industry trends including Digital Transformation, InsureTech, AI/Machine Learning etc

Location:

Core teams are primarily located in Whitehouse Station, NJ which is the preferred site of employment, however other office locations and remote employment options are also acceptable. Travel to Whitehouse Station, NJ and/or surrounding area every couple of months or so is preferred.

QUALIFICATIONS

Skills, Critical
Adaptability
IT
Business
Deliverables
Understands
Communication.
Influences

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.