Technical LeadArchitect
Job Location:
Job Location:
Summit, WA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Monthly Salary:
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Posted on:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Job Title: Technical Lead/Architect
Location: Summit NJ (Hybrid
Job Type: Contract
Key Responsibilities
- Business Partnership: Partner directly with business stakeholders (brokers underwriting operations product) to elicit requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- POC / MVP Delivery: Rapidly design and build Proof-of-Concept and Minimum Viable Product solutions using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude and Cursor.
- Architecture & Design: Provide architectural direction for applications and data pipelines Microsoft Azure and Databricks.
- Technical Leadership: Lead mentor and review the work of a team of developers. Set technical standards conduct design and code reviews and unblock the team.
- Hands-on Engineering: Write production-quality code in C# / .NET integrate with Azure services and build / consume data products on Databricks where required.
- AI Tooling Adoption: Define and champion best practices for incorporating AI coding assistants into the SDLC - prompt patterns review gates and quality controls.
- Domain Translation: Apply P&C insurance domain knowledge (submissions quoting binding policy admin claims reinsurance ACORD standards) to shape pragmatic business-aligned solutions.
Required Qualifications
- 10 years of software engineering experience with a strong foundation in object-oriented design distributed systems and modern application architecture.
- Proven hands-on expertise in the Microsoft stack - C# / .NET (.NET Core / .NET 6) Web APIs Entity Framework.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Azure (App Services Functions Azure SQL Storage Key Vault DevOps / pipelines).
- Hands-on experience with Databricks - notebooks Delta Lake Spark (PySpark or Scala) and integration with downstream applications.
- Demonstrated experience working in the Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance domain - broker carrier MGA or insurance technology vendor.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools (Claude Cursor GitHub Copilot or similar) to ship real software - not just experimentation.
- Proven people-management and technical leadership experience - guiding mentoring and being accountable for the output of a developer team.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to speak comfortably with both engineers and senior business stakeholders.
Nice to Have
- Experience with policy administration rating or broker management systems (e.g. Applied Epic Sagitta Duck Creek Guidewire).
- Exposure to ACORD data standards submission ingestion or document automation.
- Experience designing AI / LLM-powered features (RAG agents document understanding) in a regulated enterprise setting.
- Background in Agile / Scrum delivery with strong DevOps discipline.
