Position – Cyber Data Solution Architect
Location – Morris Plains, NJ (Hybrid)
Position Type: Contract
Responsibilities
Understand user requirements (desired output & outcome) and existing environments (current state), and translate these into an architecture roadmap.
Guide the full lifecycle of a Solution, including:
Understand the Business Capabilities that are required and translate this to Technical Capabilities and Solution Architecture
Assist the customer (and business solutions analysts) to define and declare non-functional requirements for building out solution capabilities.
Document solution interactions and relationships, along with basic infrastructure and application onboarding requirements
Ensure security by design to meet Information Security policies, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Regulatory requirements, and industry best practice.
Be hands-on to demonstrate tools, patterns, security, performance, scalability, etc. in a lab environment when necessary.
Participate in the definition of adoption and experience metrics for the solution to measure the success of the solution
Present architecture decisions, explain the end-to-end solution, educate others how they can contribute, and provide guidance on tool usage
Act as a strategic advisor to management
Contribute to the development of the Strategic Architecture
Understand & be able to communicate business problems & technical solutions in appropriate terminology and ability to influence across business lines
Skills:
Moderate to Extensive years of experiences in relevant architecture roles; possess broad and deep expertise in insurance (especially cyber) data strategy and architecture.
• Working experience with organizations with multiple entities operated globally is preferred.
• Understanding of security committees such as CIFIUS
• Deep expertise in distributed and decentralized domain design to support multi entity model architecture.
• Understanding of data mesh concepts and applicability to support multi entity architecture.
• Understanding of federated governance approaches to support multi entity model
• Hands-on experience with architecture and design with:
o Azure cloud platform environment
o Big data technologies
o Machine Learning, AI, LLM knowledge, especially on how to apply the concepts and capabilities to Cyber Data Analytics solutions.
o Message queues, streaming technologies, and event driven architecture.
o Unstructured data management
o O365 environment
o Container & Orchestration platforms
o Relational databases and structured query languages
o Microservices
o Integration and ETL/ELT technologies
o Data management and analytics
o Reference & Master Data Management
o Access control and security
o Effective management and leadership skills with the ability to influence department’s strategy
o Outstanding organizational skills with attention to detail and ability to handle change
o Excellent presentation, communication (oral & written), and relationship building skills, across all levels of management
o Excellent problem-solving and analysis skills
o Knowledge and active use of Agile, SCRUM and Continuous Delivery
