Reinsurance Implementation Technical Architect

DXC Technology is a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner delivering software, services, and solutions to global enterprises and public sector organizations. We help clients modernize, secure, and operate complex technology environments while using data and AI to improve business outcomes.

DXC’s Insurance Software and Business Process Services (ISB) organization helps insurers worldwide modernize and operate their core business functions at scale. By combining deep insurance expertise, proven software platforms, and innovative technology solutions, ISB supports policy administration, claims, billing, analytics, digital engagement, and reinsurance operations across Life & Annuity, Property & Casualty, and Specialty insurance markets.

As part of DXC ISB, you will help design and implement the technology solutions that enable leading insurers and reinsurers to manage complex business processes, improve operational efficiency, and modernize critical systems.

Position Summary

The Reinsurance Implementation Technical Architect is responsible for defining and leading the technical architecture for reinsurance software implementations, enhancements, integrations, migrations, and modernization initiatives.

This role analyzes business and technical requirements and translates them into scalable, secure, supportable, and high-quality solution designs. The Technical Architect provides technical leadership throughout the implementation lifecycle, from discovery and architecture definition through development, testing, deployment, and transition to production support.

The successful candidate will collaborate with reinsurance subject matter experts, business analysts, project managers, developers, infrastructure teams, data specialists, and client stakeholders. The role requires a strong combination of application architecture experience, hands-on software delivery knowledge, and familiarity with reinsurance systems and processes.

Direct experience with DXC SICS is strongly preferred.

Essential Job Functions

• Serve as the technical architecture lead for reinsurance software implementations, upgrades, migrations, integrations, and enhancement initiatives.
• Analyze business, functional, nonfunctional, security, data, and operational requirements to define the appropriate technical solution.
• Translate reinsurance business requirements into detailed solution architectures, application designs, integration specifications, and technical implementation plans.
• Define the end-to-end architecture across application components, interfaces, data flows, infrastructure, security, reporting, batch processing, and operational support.
• Design solutions involving DXC SICS or comparable reinsurance administration platforms.
• Collaborate with reinsurance business consultants and subject matter experts to ensure the proposed solution supports treaty, facultative, accounting, claims, reporting, and operational requirements.
• Partner with project managers to estimate technical effort, identify dependencies, develop implementation plans, and manage architecture-related risks.
• Provide technical direction and guidance to software developers, integration specialists, data migration teams, testers, and other technical contributors.
• Lead technical design reviews and ensure that development deliverables align with approved architecture, coding standards, security requirements, and quality expectations.
• Define integration patterns between reinsurance platforms and surrounding systems, including policy administration, claims, finance, general ledger, data warehouses, reporting solutions, and external services.
• Develop data migration and conversion strategies in partnership with functional and data teams, including mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and cutover requirements.
• Assess current-state technology environments and identify architecture gaps, technical risks, modernization opportunities, and recommended remediation actions.
• Design solutions that meet requirements for scalability, performance, availability, maintainability, security, data integrity, and regulatory compliance.
• Support application configuration, custom development, interface development, and technical troubleshooting throughout the implementation lifecycle.
• Establish technical environments and deployment requirements in coordination with infrastructure, cloud, database, security, and DevOps teams.
• Define technical testing requirements and support system integration testing, performance testing, security testing, user acceptance testing, and production-readiness reviews.
• Investigate complex technical issues, perform root-cause analysis, and guide teams in implementing effective solutions.
• Support implementation cutover, production deployment, stabilization, and transition to application support teams.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, interface specifications, data-flow models, deployment designs, technical standards, decision logs, and operational documentation.
• Communicate technical concepts, risks, dependencies, and recommendations clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Contribute to client proposals, implementation estimates, solution demonstrations, statements of work, and technical presentations when required.
• Promote reusable architecture patterns, delivery standards, and continuous improvement across reinsurance implementation projects.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, systems integration, application architecture, or enterprise solution delivery.
• 5+ years of experience serving as a Technical Architect, Solution Architect, Application Architect, or technical lead for complex software implementations.
• Experience delivering insurance or reinsurance software implementation, modernization, migration, or integration projects.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles, application design, integration patterns, data architecture, and the software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to translate functional and nonfunctional requirements into scalable and supportable technical designs.
• Experience designing and delivering enterprise application integrations using APIs, web services, messaging, batch interfaces, file-based integrations, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with relational databases, data modeling, data transformation, query analysis, and data reconciliation.
• Experience supporting data migration, conversion, or legacy-system modernization initiatives.
• Strong understanding of application security, authentication, authorization, encryption, auditability, and secure development practices.
• Experience with testing strategies, defect resolution, release management, deployment planning, and production stabilization.
• Ability to evaluate technical alternatives, document architecture decisions, and clearly communicate associated benefits, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Proven experience leading technical teams in a distributed, client-facing, and matrixed delivery environment.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple technical priorities and deliver high-quality solutions within project timelines and budget constraints.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on technical architecture, configuration, development, integration, or implementation experience with DXC SICS.
• Experience with other reinsurance administration platforms or insurance industry software solutions.
• Knowledge of treaty and facultative reinsurance processes, including contract administration, premiums, commissions, claims, recoveries, accounting, settlements, and reporting.
• Experience integrating reinsurance applications with policy administration, claims, billing, finance, general ledger, analytics, document management, and regulatory reporting systems.
• Experience with cloud-based, hybrid, or distributed application architectures.
• Familiarity with Azure, AWS, or another enterprise cloud platform.
• Experience with APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, integration middleware, and enterprise service platforms.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices, source control, automated build and deployment processes, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Experience with performance engineering, capacity planning, application monitoring, and production-support readiness.
• Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Previous consulting experience delivering solutions for insurance or reinsurance clients.
• Architecture or technology certifications related to cloud platforms, enterprise architecture, security, databases, integration, or software development.
• Insurance or reinsurance designations such as ARe, CPCU, or equivalent industry credentials.

Key Technical Accountabilities

Solution Architecture

• Define the target technical architecture based on client requirements, platform capabilities, and enterprise standards.
• Ensure alignment across applications, integrations, data, infrastructure, security, and operational support.
• Maintain architecture consistency throughout the implementation lifecycle.

Application and Integration Design

• Design application components, interfaces, services, batch processes, and data exchanges.
• Ensure reliable connectivity between the reinsurance platform and the client’s broader technology ecosystem.
• Establish appropriate error handling, monitoring, reconciliation, and recovery mechanisms.

Data Migration and Conversion

• Define the technical approach for extracting, transforming, loading, validating, and reconciling legacy reinsurance data.
• Partner with business SMEs to preserve data integrity and support audit requirements.
• Provide technical input into migration rehearsals, cutover planning, and post-conversion validation.

Technical Delivery Leadership

• Guide development and technical delivery teams from design through production deployment.
• Review technical deliverables and resolve architecture-related issues.
• Support estimation, planning, dependency management, and technical risk mitigation.

Quality and Production Readiness

• Establish technical quality standards and acceptance criteria.
• Support integration, performance, security, regression, and production-readiness testing.
• Ensure the implemented solution is stable, maintainable, documented, and ready for operational support.

Leadership Competencies

• Technical architecture leadership
• Client and stakeholder engagement
• Systems thinking
• Technical decision-making
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Risk and dependency management
• Clear technical communication
• Problem resolution and root-cause analysis
• Delivery accountability
• Mentoring and knowledge transfer
• Quality and continuous improvement
• Business and technology alignment

Success Measures

Success in this role will be demonstrated through:

• Delivery of technically sound reinsurance solutions that meet approved business and nonfunctional requirements.
• Clear and complete architecture, integration, data, deployment, and operational documentation.
• Effective translation of reinsurance requirements into implementable technical designs.
• Successful integration of the reinsurance platform with the client’s application and data environments.
• Accurate and controlled migration of legacy data.
• Timely resolution of technical risks, dependencies, defects, and production issues.
• Adherence to project scope, schedule, budget, security, and quality expectations.
• Strong collaboration among client stakeholders, business teams, delivery teams, and support organizations.
• Successful deployment, stabilization, knowledge transfer, and transition to ongoing operations.
• High client confidence in the solution’s reliability, scalability, supportability, and long-term value.