Integration Architecture Lead Insurance
Years of Experience: 12-15+ years
Job Summary: The Integration Architecture Lead is responsible for defining, governing, and leading the end-to-end enterprise integration architecture across multiple insurance Lines of Business. This role ensures seamless interoperability between core platforms, finance systems, customer-facing applications, data ecosystems, and external partner services under the guidance of Enterprise Architecture. The Integration Architecture Lead provides architectural leadership across agile delivery teams, vendor partners, and enterprise stakeholders, ensuring that all integration solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic integrations with core systems including GL/Finance, CRM, Payment Gateway, Fraud systems, Master Data Management, Input/Output Management Systems, Document Management, and Data Lakehouse platforms.
- Collaborate with business, operations, security, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure end-to-end alignment of technology decisions with business goals.
- Design and drive API-first and event-driven integration patterns across internal platforms and external ecosystems.
- Maintain enterprise-grade architectural artifacts such as integration blueprints, canonical models, interface specifications, event models, sequence diagrams, and architectural decision records.
- Ensure integration alignment with business processes across all Lines of Business, including new business, underwriting, policy lifecycle, collections, renewals, claims, and financial posting.
- Embed harmonization, maintainability, reliability, performance, observability, auditability, and regulatory compliance into all integration designs and implementations.
- Guide engineering leads, development teams, and vendors to ensure consistent implementation of integration patterns, coding standards, non-functional requirements, and architectural governance.
Mandatory Skills
- 12-15+ years of experience in enterprise-scale integration architectures in large, complex insurance or financial services organizations.
- Deep experience defining and governing enterprise-wide integration architectures, ensuring secure, scalable, high-performing connectivity across policy, underwriting, claims, billing, customer, partner, and finance systems.
- Proven success in leading integration modernization programs using API-first, microservices-based, and event-driven patterns.
- Extensive hands-on expertise designing and implementing integrations using REST API, JSON, XML, and Kafka Stream.
- Strong delivery experience integrating with core insurance platforms across multiple domains.
- Proven ability to design and govern integrations with GL/Finance Systems, CRM platforms, Payment Gateway solutions, Fraud management systems, and AWS Data Lake platforms.
- Solid understanding of non-functional architecture, including security, resilience, performance, and observability.
- Demonstrated experience operationalizing architectural governance in a global enterprise environment.
- Ability to produce and maintain comprehensive architectural artifacts.
Preferred Skills
- Knowledge of Agentic and MCP technologies.
- Experience with Cloud Services Integration.
- Experience leveraging GenAI/VS Code to enhance engineering quality review, documentation, design validation, and developer productivity.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Proven leadership capability guiding engineering leads, solution designers, platform teams, and vendor partners.
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