Senior Solution Architect – P&C Insurance (Commercial Lines)
- Canada
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About the Role
We are looking for an experienced, hands-on Senior Solution Architect to lead the end-to-end technical architecture of a greenfield Commercial Lines insurance platform covering Commercial Property and Commercial Package Policy (CPP).
The ideal candidate will bring strong P&C insurance domain expertise, microservices architecture experience, and a proven track record of designing and delivering enterprise platforms from concept to production.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and technical design of a greenfield Commercial Lines insurance platform.
- Design microservices architecture using Domain-Driven Design (DDD), bounded contexts, and event-driven patterns.
- Define Kafka-based event models, API contracts, service boundaries, and data ownership.
- Develop insurance data models covering accounts, policies, coverages, locations, buildings, and exposures.
- Architect rating engines, underwriting rules, premium transaction ledgers, and policy workflows.
- Design secure integrations with insurance management systems, third-party data providers, and payment platforms.
- Produce technical architecture deliverables, including C4 diagrams, ADRs, OpenAPI specifications, and data models.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Underwriting, Actuarial, and Data Engineering teams to ensure successful implementation.
Required Skills & Experience
- 8+ years in Solution Architecture or Enterprise Architecture.
- Strong P&C Insurance experience, preferably Commercial Lines (Commercial Property / CPP).
- Proven experience delivering at least one greenfield microservices platform into production.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka, Event-Driven Architecture, CQRS, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
- Strong API architecture expertise, including REST APIs, OpenAPI 3.1, API versioning, and integration patterns.
- Experience designing complex insurance data models, rating engines, and underwriting workflows.
- Knowledge of immutable transaction ledgers, auditability, effective-dating, and financial reconciliation.
- Ability to translate architecture into actionable technical specifications for engineering teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Guidewire, Duck Creek, Majesco, or custom-built insurance platforms.
- Knowledge of reinsurance, quota share, multi-carrier allocation, and bordereaux reporting.
- Experience integrating IVANS, EZLynx, and other insurance industry systems.
- Familiarity with insurance regulatory and compliance requirements.
Who Should Apply?
We encourage applications from Senior Solution Architects, Principal Architects, Enterprise Architects, and Insurance Platform Architects who have hands-on experience building complex P&C insurance technology platforms.
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Responsibilities
Lead the end-to-end architecture and technical design of a greenfield Commercial Lines insurance platform, including microservices, event models, APIs, insurance data models, rating, underwriting, and policy workflows. Produce architecture specifications and collaborate with engineering, product, underwriting, actuarial, and data teams to guide implementation and integrations.
Requirements
Requires 8+ years in solution or enterprise architecture, strong P&C insurance expertise, and experience delivering a greenfield microservices platform into production. Candidates should have hands-on knowledge of Kafka, event-driven architecture, CQRS, DDD, API design, insurance data models, rating and underwriting workflows, and financial auditability.
Skills
- Solution Architecture
- P&C Insurance
- Commercial Lines
- Microservices Architecture
- Domain-Driven Design
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Apache Kafka
- CQRS
- API Architecture
- OpenAPI
- Insurance Data Modeling
- Rating Engines
- Underwriting Workflows
- Immutable Transaction Ledgers
- System Integration
- Technical Architecture Documentation
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- Software
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- Finance & Accounting
Keywords
- Commercial Lines
- Commercial Property
- Commercial Package Policy
- P&C Insurance
- Greenfield Platform
- Microservices
- Domain-Driven Design
- Bounded Contexts
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Apache Kafka
- CQRS
- REST APIs
- OpenAPI 3.1
- API Versioning
- Insurance Data Models
- Rating Engines
- Underwriting Rules
- Premium Transaction Ledgers
- Effective-Dating
- Financial Reconciliation
- C4 Diagrams
- Architecture Decision Records
- Guidewire
- Duck Creek
- Majesco
- Reinsurance
- Quota Share
- Bordereaux Reporting
- IVANS
- EZLynx