Lead Solutions Architect, Mainframe Modernization

Join us on our digital-first journey and join the magic that is happening right now at Chubb. Our teams are innovating, iterating, and solving customer problems at a rapid pace. We are building upon our strength of delivering superior coverage and customer experience by leading the modernization of what insurance does and how we deliver it in a digital way. This means technology is infused into the business and technology experts sit at the table with our insurance experts. This requires taking an engineers of everything mentality to deliver the world-class customer experience that sets Chubb apart from our competition. By being a part of the digital-first journey at Chubb, you will be a transformer at the forefront of driving change in a multidisciplinary squad. Here is how some of our current transformers are describing how they feel about their experience in our squads: invigorated, heard, motivated, supported, and valued.Want to know more about how you can be a part of the magic? Here’s what we’re looking for.As our Lead Solutions Architect, you will play a pivotal role in driving the re-architecting of our core systems from a legacy mainframe on-prem architecture to a cloud-native microservices based architecture. You will be responsible for analyzing and decomposing our current state technology environment into a component-based architecture which will facilitate our technology modernization journey as needed to achieve our business objectives of speed to market, digital enablement and digitization of our customer experiences. Our current technologies include: COBOL, IBM MQ, IMS DB, CICS, DB2, z/OS and Smalltalk.Our future state technologies include: Azure, Java Spring Boot, Kafka, Apache Camel, Angular, MongoDB, PostgreSQLIn addition to designing innovative strategies for migrating and enhancing our legacy applications, you will collaborate closely with a diverse range of stakeholders, including business leaders, project managers, software engineers, and infrastructure teams. Together, you will define and deliver comprehensive end-to-end solutions that are secure, scalable, resilient, and adaptable to evolving business needs, ultimately ensuring a seamless impact on day-to-day operations. Your leadership will be integral in identifying and mitigating technical debt, transitioning our core applications into modern cloud-native architectures, and implementing best practices in integration and DevSecOps. You will also focus on the profound implications of these changes, ensuring that the enhanced technology stack drives improvements in operational efficiency, customer experience, and overall business performance. Further, as a mentor and guide to development teams throughout the software development life cycle, you will foster a culture of continuous improvement and excellence. Your vision and expertise will be instrumental in facilitating Chubb’s digital transformation initiatives, positioning our organization for long-term success in an increasingly competitive landscape.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 needsCollaborate with business and technical stakeholders to understand and document solution requirements and align business and technology roadmapsCollaborate across numerous agile teams to provide end to end solutions across multiple business domainsProvide 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 environmentsDevelop 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 Personal Risk Services Insurance portfolio which meet functional, performance, and usability requirementsDefine application architecture and cloud migration / modernization roadmaps for the designated portfolioIdentify, evaluate, and integrate new data and technologies to meet business needsIntegrate data and intelligence to enable, automate, and optimize key processes such as risk identification, evaluation & selection; rating; user experience for customers, agents, and underwritersInfluence the roadmap and architecture of Chubb’s global platforms to enable new capabilities and align with business needsHelp research and prototype emerging technologies that advance digital transformationEnsure alignment and compliance with Chubb technology platform roadmaps, architectural principles, and standards
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.
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field; equivalent industry experience consideredAt least 10+ years of experience as an architect delivering end-to-end technology solutions, ideally in the property and casualty insurance domain and working with policy administration systemsAt least 5+ years of experience in understanding and analyzing large systems built on legacy technology (mainframe, COBOL, DB2, IMS, MQ, CICS) with the intention of decomposition, integration and modernization to a cloud-native architectureAt least 5+ years of experience developing solution architecture designs for cloud-native and hybrid applications (Azure preferred). Cloud certifications are a plusAt 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 frameworkAbility 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 developing roadmaps outlining the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from current to future stateStrong relational (Azure SQL, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cosmos DB) database knowledgeStrong cloud (Azure preferred) experience in multiple areas from API Management, Kubernetes, Cosmos DB, App service, Azure functions, Redis cache etc.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.Interest in defining highly performant and reliable integration patterns between cloud native microservices and legacy technology (COBOL, Smalltalk, IMS)Experience leveraging and integrating COTS and SaaS solutions. Experience with Insurance industry specific software such as Duck Creek, Insurity, etc. is a plusIn Jersey City, NJ the pay range for the role is $126,300 to $214,700. The specific offer will depend on an applicant’s skills and other factors. This role may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program.  Chubb offers a comprehensive benefits package, more details on which can be found at .  This range is specific to Jersey City, NJ and may not be applicable to other locations.#LI-HybridFull timePosting Date: 2024-08-16