.NET Architect

Role - Senior Technical Profile - .NET and UI in Insurance Domain
Seeking a Senior Technical .Net with 18+ years of experience, including 12+ years in architecture roles, to lead the design and modernization of enterprise insurance platforms. The role requires expertise in .NET, cloud-native solutions, event-driven architecture, and enterprise integrations, with a proven ability to deliver scalable, resilient, and high-performance solutions
Key Responsibilities:
Architecture & Solution Design -
o Define and govern architecture for complex insurance platforms and digital transformation initiatives.
o Design scalable, resilient, high-performance distributed systems.
o Lead modernization using .NET, microservices, cloud-native, and event-driven architectures.
o Drive architecture reviews, technology selection, and governance.
o Ensure compliance with enterprise standards, security, and regulatory requirements.
o Bring any architectural changes across to TDA (Architectural Review Board) and CAB (change Board) alongside application team and get through its approvals
o Active participation in Architecture Community of Practice (CoP)
Technical Leadership
o Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance.
o Lead architecture workshops and stakeholder discussions.
o Define target-state architecture and modernization roadmaps.
o Conduct PoCs and technology assessments to solve complex business and technical challenges.
o Work with COEs for shared goals
Integration & Data Architecture -
o Design scalable integration solutions using APIs, messaging, and asynchronous patterns.
o Architect event-driven, event-sourced systems for scalability and resilience.
o Define data architecture across transactional, analytics, and search platforms.
o Enable seamless integration across enterprise applications and services.
Cloud & Platform Engineering
o Design and deliver cloud-native solutions on Azure and AWS.
o Lead cloud modernization, migration, scalability, and resilience initiatives.
o Define high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
o Optimize application and infrastructure performance for enterprise-scale workloads.

Must-Have Architectural Expertise:
Distributed System Architecture
o Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
o Event Sourcing and CQRS patterns
o Asynchronous Processing Architectures
o Plugin-Based / Extensible Application Architectures
o Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
o Microservices and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Scalability & Performance
o Horizontal and vertical scaling strategies
o High-volume transaction processing
o Performance optimization
o Caching strategies
o Distributed systems design
o System resiliency and fault tolerance
Disaster Recovery & Resilience
o Disaster Recovery (DR) planning
o High Availability (HA) architecture
o Backup and recovery strategies
o Business Continuity Planning
o Multi-region deployment strategies
o RTO/RPO planning and implementation

Required Technical Skills
Application Platforms - C#, ASP.NET MVC 5, .NET Framework 4.7.2, .NET 6+, Angular 15.2.9 / 16.2.14, REST APIs
Data Platforms - Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL 13, Elasticsearch, RavenDB, MartenDB
Messaging & Integration Kafka, NServiceBus, Azure Service Bus, MSMQ, API Gateway, Logic Apps, Azure Functions
Cloud & Infrastructure - Microsoft Azure, Azure AD, Azure App Services, Azure SignalR, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Bicep/ARM), Windows and Linux hosting environments
DevOps & Observability GitHub, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, JFrog Artifactory, Datadog, AppDynamics, Kibana, Azure Application Insights

Required Architectural skills
Distributed Systems - Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), Event Streaming, Publish / Subscribe, Message Queue Patterns, Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP), Workflow Orchestration
Domain & Application Architecture - Domain Driven Design (DDD), CQRS, Event Sourcing, Service-Oriented Architecture, Microservices Architecture, Modular Monoliths, Hexagonal Architecture
Modernisation Patterns - Strangler Pattern, Anti-Corruption Layer, Domain Decomposition
Security Patterns - Secure by Design, Zero Trust Architecture, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Role-Based Access Control, Identity Federation
Architecture Tools BizzDesign, ArchiMate, C4 Model, Gliffy
Other Experiences:
Domain - Have experience working for Insurance clients (Specialty and PnC)
SDLC Have strong experience working in scaled agile environments