Enterprise Architect - Insurance Domain, Bangalore

Job Title - Insurance Enterprise Architect

Location - Bangalore

Yrs of exp - 18+

Work from office/Hybrid

The Enterprise Solution Architect will drive architectural standards and modernization initiatives across large-scale insurance applications, ensuring alignment with business strategy, scalability, security, and regulatory requirements, and AI goals. This is ahands-onleadership role demanding technical depth, strategic thinking, and a solid understanding of insurance products and data ecosystems and AI/ML-driven digital transformation.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 18+ years of hands-on software architecture experience ininsurance (Property & Casualty, Retirement Annuities etc)domains.
• Strong proficiency in.NET Core/.NET Frameworkapplication design and development.
• Expertise inAzure and AWSservices (e.g., App Services, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure SQL, Azure Functions, API Management, Event Grid, Service Bus).
• Deep understanding oflarge application data handling including performance tuning, partitioning, data lake architecture, and ETL processes.
• Proven experience designing microservices architectures and securing enterprise systems in regulated industries.
• Familiarity with insurance industry standards such as ACORD, ISO standards, or regional compliance regulations.
• Strong interpersonal skills, capable of bridging technical and business needs at an executive level.
• Experience with integration platforms, API-led architecture, and enterprise service bus (ESB) patterns.
• Proficiency in AI/ML solution architecture and orchestration using Azure & AWS AI services (Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Services, ML Studio).
• Experience integrating AI capabilities (e.g., intelligent document processing, predictive modeling, claims triage automation) into insurance workflows.
• Understanding of Responsible AI, model governance, and compliance within highly regulated insurance environments.
• Proven experience in leading AI adoption roadmaps and pilot projects (e.g., chatbots, NLP-based underwriting assistants, fraud detection algorithms).
• Bachelor's or Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field; TOGAF, Azure Architect certifications preferred.
• Prior experience working directly with Insurance or similar multi-line global insurers.
• Background in re-platforming or refactoring large insurance legacy systems to modern cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines using Azure and AWS DevOps.
• Exposure to data analytics solutions within insurance (Power BI, Azure Synapse, Data Bricks).

Job Responsibilities

• Define and govern enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, and roadmaps tailored to the insurance industry (Property, Casualty, Retirement Annuities etc.).
• Architect end-to-end insurance application ecosystems, focusing oncloud native solutions in Azure and AWS.
• Lead architectural reviews and technical design sessions with engineering teams.
• Engage directly with business and technology stakeholders to translate complex insurance requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Design and oversee large data migrations, API integrations, and modernization of legacy insurance systems.
• Champion best practices inDevOps,Cloud Security,Microservices, andData Governancewithin insurance contexts.
• Lead AI integration initiatives, evaluating AI use cases that deliver measurable business value (e.g., automated claims intake, risk scoring, document summarization).
• Partner with data science and engineering teams to deploy AI/ML pipelines in production, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
• Conduct hands-on proof of concepts (PoCs), code reviews, and performance optimization for mission-critical applications.
• Act as the technical advisor on compliance (e.g., GDPR, APRA, ISO27001) impacting insurance data architectures.
• Mentor technical teams and promote architectural excellence and innovation