Description
Top 3 Reasons To Join Us
- Competitive Salary
- 100% Remote
- Working on the latest tech for the Insurtech Market Leader
About Us
At CoverGo, our mission is to empower all insurance companies to make insurance 100% digital and accessible to everyone.
- We are a leading global no-code insurance platform for health, life, and P&C
- We’re the winner of the Insurtech of the Year in all of Asia and other awards globally
- We work with insurance enterprise clients such as AXA, Bupa, MSIG, Dai-ichi, Bank of China Group Insurance, and many more
- We're an international, diverse team of over 120 people with 30 nationalities and team members working remotely from all over the world
- We are fully funded and backed by reputable VC funds and strategic institutional investors
- We have a global presence in Asia, EMEA and the Americas
- We’ve grown our annualized revenue by over 30x since January 2021
- We’re constantly working towards making CoverGo a workplace that you love coming to. We deeply believe that bringing together a diversity of thoughts, expressions, and perspectives is key to building the best culture for equally diverse communities all over the world
About the Role
The Enterprise Architect is responsible for assisting in building a holistic view of the CoverHealth Platform strategy, processes, information, and technology assets. Their principle job is to ensure that the business and IT plans and strategies are in alignment. They will operate across organisational boundaries to develop and gain agreement to architectural principles and models that show how the current and future needs of an organisation will be met in an efficient, sustainable and adaptable manner.
The Enterprise Architect balances the investment and need for lasting, strategic solutions v's rapid payback opportunities of a more tactical nature. The Enterprise Architect conducts and supports the development and maintenance of information technology (IT) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) plans. This position is responsible for the CoverHealth platform architecture and implementation of platform service-oriented and component-based architectures plans. This position supports development of standards, policies and guidelines to ensure appropriate application, implementation, and compatibility with company-wide information architectural and technical standards.
The Enterprise Architect reports to the CTO, manages the architecture team, works closely with Covergo-product and customer-project stakeholders
The ideal candidate is a cloud technology focused individual who has demonstrated design & delivery expertise in forward looking solutions in a modern cloud based insurance environment. The successful candidate will be technology agnostic but with a bias towards solutions leveraging heavily on the AWS environment that comprise elements of open-source, PaaS and SaaS components.
Key Areas of Focus
- Build out and lead the Enterprise Architecture team
- Manage and maintain the Enterprise Architecture and IT Standards for the business
- Govern technical and product standards; ensuring adherence to the reference architecture
- Work closely with the CTO to build out the enterprise strategy for specific components of the CoverHealth Insurance Capability Framework in consultation with Product Team and Client business needs
- Ensure Architecture is aligned with Product Owners, Sales, and Marketing
- Accountable for all deliverables of the architecture team
What You Will Do
- Owns and manages the framework for Enterprise Architecture
- Owns and manages Architectural Governance of internal Architectural Control Points
- Directs solution deployment roadmaps
- Lead in designing, specifying and selecting off-the-shelf components, considering functionality, data, security, integration, infrastructure and performance for areas of teh solution we wish to buy rather than build
- Identifying which Technology Components to incorporate into the overall designs based on suitability for purpose, cost benefit analysis and research
- Where applicable, evaluate vendors for architectural recommendations
- Breaking down large scale initiatives into manageable easily deliverable chunks
- Industry and architecture knowledge transfer for architects, business analysts and engineers
- Maintain an awareness of business solution components that align with our current and future operational needs to prevent developing non-core IP areas within our product offering
- Rapidly gain an in-depth understanding of the “as is” architecture landscape and understand our future direction
Required Experience and Knowledge
- At least 10 years of experience in senior architecture roles in the insurance industry with a current position of Enterprise Architect held for at least 3 years
- Insurance Industry can be end-client or software / services vendor focused
- Understanding of insurance business processes across all areas and at least two lines of business
- Proven experience in a cloud first environment for the insurance vertical
- Understands business architecture models & patterns
- Experience with data architecture
- Experience with service and integration architecture
- Experience in defining and socialising the enterprise roadmaps and translating the roadmap into implementable steps
- Demonstrable success in implementation innovative and creative solutions to business problems
- Encourages and expects others to think "outside the box" and not be limited by existing methods and procedures, but also be able to understand the business constraints that lead to “in the box” approaches
- Experienced in working in environments that are waterfall & agile, lean, dev-sec-ops focused
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
Required Competencies
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Must be equally comfortable discussing the architecture strategies and enterprise roadmap with people at all levels of our organisation and CxO to project level teams in our clients
- Ability to effectively communicate in a multicultural, multinational environment
- Excellent ability to listen and interpret requirements correctly
- Excellent presentation skills and an ability to engage audiences
- Excellent decision making and judgment skills
- Certification in one architecture discipline (TOGAF, Zachman, etc.) is a distinct advantage
- Certification in one cloud environment is a distinct advantage with a broad knowledge and experience of the cloud platform’s capabilities
- A high proficiency in working in English as your primary language
Why You'll Love Working Here
- Fully Remote
- Flexible Leave
- International Environment
- Competitive renumeration package
- Performance Bonus
- Stock Options after 6 months
- Company activities and events
- Learning and development plan
