.Net Solution Architect

#.Net Solution Architect

Job Summary

This is an excellent opportunity for a Solution Architect to lead the delivery of a robust foundational Solution architecture to accelerate digital transformation, reduce total cost of ownership, and contribute to our insurance ecosystem. The successful candidate will secure an opportunity to work with expert business analysts and showcase their excellence in the insurance domain.

As a Solution Architect, you will tap into the expertise of the team and empower others to take ownership of their work. You will assist in the advancement of the industry with leading analytical skills and individual well-roundedness.

If you possess a passion for what you do, we await your innovation at Xceedance.

Responsibilities

Strengthen Solutions

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of customer-focused solutions across insurance and related domains.
• Own the end-to-end solutioning process, including:
  • Understanding domain-specific needs and tailoring solutions accordingly.
  • Responding to RFPs with detailed solution architecture and value propositions.
  • Creating proactive proposals to address emerging or latent business needs.
  • Preparing and delivering presentations, demos, and oral defenses for stakeholders.
• Ensure solutions are technically sound, scalable, and aligned with business goals and transformation objectives.

Transformation Support

• Actively lead transformation initiatives by contributing domain and technical expertise.
• Align solutions with the overall transformation roadmap and strategic goals.
• Provide consultative input during opportunity assessment and execution phases.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Lead with innovation in solution design, leveraging emerging technologies.
• Encourage and institutionalize reuse of assets, templates, and frameworks across projects.
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery methodologies and practices.

Large Program Engineering Delivery Ownership (Core Requirement)

• Lead and govern large engineering programs involving complex builds, modernization, and integration transformation across multiple lines of business.
• Own outcomes for large engagements:
  • Delivery predictability and release governance
  • Defect leakage reduction and quality metrics
  • Architecture-led delivery, scalability, performance, security, and resiliency controls
  • Program risk mitigation across dependencies and multi-vendor ecosystems
• Drive standardized delivery approach using Agile/SAFe, DevSecOps, CI/CD, test automation, and SRE practices.
• Ensure high-quality technical decision-making and delivery governance across distributed teams and partners.

Technology & Architecture Leadership

• Provide technology leadership across:
  • Digital engineering (web/mobile portals, omnichannel experiences)
  • Application modernization (microservices, event-driven systems, refactoring legacy platforms)
  • API & integration ecosystems (middleware, API mgmt., iPaaS, messaging platforms)
  • Cloud-native engineering (migration, platform engineering, containerization, Kubernetes)
• Drive best practices for architecture patterns, NFRs, code quality, observability, and performance engineering.

Client Advisory & Onshore Leadership

• Act as a trusted advisor to client senior leaders (VP/CXO levels) on application modernization, cloud transformation, and digital engineering strategy.
• Lead client steering committees, architecture review boards, and executive governance forums.
• Translate business objectives into engineering roadmaps with measurable outcomes.
• Bring proven onshore stakeholder management gained through working at client locations in US/UK/Australia (or similar) to build trust and strengthen strategic partnerships.

Solutioning, Pre-Sales & Revenue Enablement

• Lead solutioning for strategic pursuits: discovery, target architecture, delivery approach, costing, and estimation.
• Support RFP responses, solution orals, and proactive transformation proposals.
• Build practice offerings aligned to Insurance SI needs and drive account expansion using scalable, reusable solutions.
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills for client orals and demos.
• Collaborate with Sales and Account teams to shape opportunities, win deals, and position Xceedance as a strategic engineering partner.

Practice Capability Building & Innovation

• Build practice assets: reference architectures, reusable components, accelerators, templates, and engineering playbooks.
• Define engineering maturity and modernization models and apply them across accounts.
• Sponsor innovation in:
  • Platform engineering and cloud-native modernization
  • API ecosystems, integration modernization, event-driven architectures
  • GenAI-assisted SDLC productivity improvements
• Stay current on emerging technologies and incorporate relevant innovations into delivery and offerings.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Build and mentor strong engineering leaders: architects, engineering managers, platform specialists.
• Define skill development paths, certifications, and leadership development plans.
• Drive a culture of engineering excellence: secure-by-design, automation-first delivery, continuous improvement, and strong ownership.
• Ability to lead virtual teams and influence without authority across multiple geographies.

Requirements

Key Skills & Competencies

• Minimum 14-16 years of demonstrable experience as Architect, 4+ years as Solution Architect role including architecture advisory and consulting.
• 4+ years of experience and expertise in presales activities, solution design, proposal, providing solution points of view, and estimations.
• Development projects experience: solutioning, architecture, execution excellence, release governance.
• Solutioning & consulting: discovery, target architecture, roadmap creation, proposals/RFPs, executive storytelling.
• Modern engineering architecture: microservices, cloud-native, integration patterns, event-driven systems.
• Experience in change management, adoption planning, and benefit realization.
• Cloud & platform engineering: AWS/Azure, containers, Kubernetes, IaC, platform modernization.
• Client leadership: executive stakeholder management, onshore engagement exposure, influencing skills.

Experience & Qualifications (Mandatory)

• 15+ years of experience in application engineering and delivery leadership, ideally in Technical Architect / Consulting environments.
• 5+ years in leadership roles covering Delivery / Practice / Portfolio / Architecture leadership.
• Insurance domain knowledge (P&C/Reinsurance) and familiarity with insurance platforms (Guidewire/Duck Creek/Socotra/Origami).
• Demonstrated leadership in large development programs/projects, including:
  • Multi-year and multi-release initiatives based on agile/waterfall.
  • Distributed engineering teams across geographies.
  • Modernization / rebuild / integration transformation programs.
  • Complex dependency management and multi-vendor environments.
• Mandatory onshore experience:
  • Worked at client locations and led delivery/solutioning engagements in US / UK / Australia (or similar international markets).
  • Strong executive stakeholder management experience gained from onsite engagements.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent.

Core Competencies & Skills

• Strong expertise across at least 2–3 of: Digital Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Integration Engineering, Application Modernization.
• Strong architecture and design capability (security, performance, resiliency, scalability, observability).
• Applied skills in app development like Web API, Web Application, Azure Services, Angular/React, and more (.NET Core).
• Expert in designing, architecting, and delivering cloud-native solutions on PaaS, integration, and serverless technologies.
• Ability to work with application architecture, tiers, layers, non-functional requirements (NFRs), APIs, and DevOps automation.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI), Enterprise AI, Generative AI (GenAI), Agentic AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Intelligent Automation, AI Strategy, Governance & Innovation.
• Strong delivery governance using Agile/SAFe, DevSecOps, CI/CD, test automation, and release readiness practices.
• Knowledge of any one or two TOGAF or Zachman frameworks.
• Excellent executive communication, client advisory, negotiation, and team leadership skills.
• Ability to scale teams, standardize engineering delivery, and build high-performance delivery culture.

Preferred / Good-to-Have

• Certifications: Cloud Solution Architect (AWS/Azure/GCP), TOGAF, SAFe, Kubernetes, Security certs.
• Experience establishing reusable accelerators and IP to improve time-to-market.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Professional growth and development opportunities
• Collaborative and inclusive work culture

About the Company

At Xceedance, we are committed to driving digital transformation and innovation in the insurance sector. Our team of experts works together to deliver cutting-edge solutions that empower our clients to achieve their business objectives.