Job Description
About The Company
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Our client is a global insurance business operating across Australia and New Zealand. A large scale modernisation of their claims and digital platforms is underway, with investment in automation, self service, and straight through processing to improve customer outcomes and reduce operational effort.
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About The Company
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Our client is a global insurance business operating across Australia and New Zealand. A large scale modernisation of their claims and digital platforms is underway, with investment in automation, self service, and straight through processing to improve customer outcomes and reduce operational effort.
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About The Role
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This is a six month contract based in Sydney, working alongside the Principal Enterprise Architect, claims leadership, and delivery squads. The role spans two initiatives: a New Zealand claims transformation and a new direct to customer digital platform for SME insurance. You will own solution integrity end to end, from discovery through to production.
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Benefits
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$1,115 per day + GST
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Six month engagement with scope across two concurrent transformation programs
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Greenfield build on a direct to customer digital platform, not maintenance of legacy systems
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Direct exposure to enterprise architecture and claims leadership, with genuine influence over solution direction
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Sydney based
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Duties / Key Responsibilities
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Shape problem statements and MVP scope during discovery, translating epics and ideas into clear solution intent alongside enterprise architecture and claims leadership
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Own end to end solution integrity across delivery squads, covering integration, orchestration and data flows through to production
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Design the digital customer journeys for the SME direct platform, including quote, bind, policy servicing, payments, identity and self service capability
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Define and enforce architecture patterns across APIs, event driven components, workflow and rules based decisioning, including resilient error, retry and fallback handling
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Own the non functional and security design, covering performance, scalability, resilience, observability, data protection and production support readiness
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Skills and Experience
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Extensive solution architecture experience across claims, policy or other core insurance domains
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Track record of carrying architecture through both discovery and delivery, rather than handing designs over at the design gate
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Experience delivering digital, self service platforms for customers directly, including quote to bind journeys and payments
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Strong depth in APIs, orchestration, event driven architecture, workflow and decisioning design
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Ability to define integration across core platforms and external services, with a transparent position on failure handling
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Solid non functional grounding across performance, scalability, resilience, observability, security and operational readiness
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Comfortable testing feasibility early, articulating trade offs, and holding governance across squads and delivery partners
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Experience working with third party vendors and enterprise delivery partners across local and global teams
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Desirable
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Core insurance platform experience, Guidewire or similar
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Cloud delivery experience, preferably Azure
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Exposure to AI enabled solutions
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Conor is recruiting for this role on behalf of Allura Partners.

📌 Lead Solution Architect (New South Wales)
🏢 Allura Partners
📍 New South Wales