Location: Bangalore, India Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS) is a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, with a growing presence in the financial services sector. We offer integrated core software solutions and business services, and a full digital suite for the property and casualty/general insurance; life, pension, and annuities; and reinsurance markets. Sapiens also services the workers’ compensation and financial and compliance markets. Our portfolio includes policy administration, billing, and claims; underwriting, illustration and electronic application; reinsurance and decision management software. Sapiens’ digital platform features customer and agent portals, and a business intelligence platform. With a 30-year track record of delivering to more than 500 organizations, Sapiens’ team of over 3,400 operates through our fully-owned subsidiaries in North America, the United Kingdom, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. For more information: <a href="http://www.sapiens.com/">www.sapiens.com</a>. The Solution Architect is responsible for the design and build of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices to ensure that existing and planned solution components remain strategically aligned to meet both current and future business needs to drive delivery to market faster for Insurance Carrier systems. The Solution Architect will leverage components of NA Platform and commercial technologies and will collaborate with Technical Analysts and Business Analysts to ensure the design and deployment of quality solutions that meet the business needs. Responsibilities: In addition to configuration of requirements in the system, responsibilities include: <ol> <li style="text-align:justify">Create High Level Design documentation for implementation across and within the different modules for CoreSuite and groom Technical Leads to create LLD</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Support execution and delivery of project from a solutioning and technology perspective.</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Work closely with PM on execution methodology and strategy</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Help create the work breakdown structure by providing inputs on tasks to be done, breakup, interdependencies and high-level estimations across and within modules</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Provide PM with the details of skill set of resources required for the implementation </li> <li style="text-align:justify">Assist the PM in loading the Sprint Backlog – participate with the BA in the Sprint Solution Review Meeting – BA to identify the user stories that can be picked up, taking into consideration client need, complexity, interdependencies and available capacity for each Sprint with assistance from SA from a technical perspective</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Create a backlog of opportunities for Product enhancements along with possible solutions to ease configuration and improve efficiency and actively participate in the backlog triaging meetings</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Actively participate in the Sprint Planning Meeting to provide guidance from a configuration and implementation perspective</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Design and build solutions to be deployed within the Sapiens client organizations – including but not limited to Policy Admin, Customer, Rating, Authority, Claims, Billing, Data Warehouse etc. </li> <li style="text-align:justify">Establishes strategy for the selection of solution architecture components, and co-ordinates design activities, promoting discipline to ensure consistency. Oversees the quality of output arising from solution build and is responsible for acceptance of the technical integrity and architectural compliance of the solution.</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Evaluates emerging technologies to continuously improve and collaborate with the business to help them support the company growth and strategy</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Works with Product Architecture to help develop roadmap for future releases based upon client demand, emerging technologies or current solution limitations</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Works within a team to influence standards for client system architecture that align with current capabilities and future (roadmap) features </li> <li style="text-align:justify">As part of project team provides support to triage, prioritize and resolve application issues identified by internal and external clients </li> <li style="text-align:justify">Researches technical defects found during configuration or testing</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Participates in Technical Detailed Design, and Architecture Code reviews for both input into designs and personal awareness (as part of on-going education) </li> <li style="text-align:justify">Supports the release development process for solving technical architecture, release build, development environment configuration issues/bugs. (creates a feedback loop from projects back to release management and Product Architects</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Provides a communications channel to the other projects to promote best practices, configuration standards, lessons learned and bright idea exchange. </li> <li style="text-align:justify">Proven ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Proven skill and passion to improve processes and their outcomes</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Work closely with senior project management, Product Architecture team; Technical Architects and Business Analysts and clients</li> </ol> <ol start="22"> <li style="text-align:justify"> </li> </ol> <h1 style="text-align:justify">Pre - requisites Knowledge & Experience</h1> <ol> <li style="text-align:justify">Experience of 10 to 15 years</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Experience in insurance industry preferred</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Strong understanding of one or more of the following: Policy Administration, Billing, Claims, Rating in the domain of Property and Casualty insurance for commercial and personal insurance. </li> <li style="text-align:justify">Bachelor’s degree required; Computer Science, Mathematics, Management Information, or Engineering is preferred</li> <li style="text-align:justify">10 + years of experience combining analysis, design, development and implementation of large-scale systems (OO and /or distributed component based)</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Good development experience with OO languages such as Java, (J2EE), C# </li> <li style="text-align:justify">Good Knowledge of XML and XSLT </li> <li style="text-align:justify">Strong knowledge of design patterns </li> <li style="text-align:justify">Good understanding of cloud-based hosting paradigm and managed services </li> <li style="text-align:justify">Good Understanding of Component Architectures and WWW middle and server-side Technologies </li> <li style="text-align:justify">Good research skills; keep up with software architecture trends and be able to implement those into the group when applicable</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Proven ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Excellent written and oral communication skills </li> <li style="text-align:justify">Agile Methodology knowledge, such as Extreme Programming (XP) & SCRUM </li> <li style="text-align:justify">Project wide perspective, including business perspective</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Adaptability and ability to work under pressure</li> <li style="text-align:justify">Strong analytical skills along with the understanding of best practices and standards</li> </ol>

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