Role: Senior Architect
Location: Chicago IL
Duration/ Term: 6 to 12 months Contract
Job Description
Experience Desired: 10 Years
Role is augmenting an existing team tasked with the development / building / population of centralized OneSource Data HUB with the longterm objective of containing all global claim information. This effort critically is about the design / governance / process of treating & managing data to gain scale of this data asset. Program is already underway this role is about augmenting the team with critical Architect capability to increase the velocity of delivery of product lines into the HUB as well as iterating / enhancing the HUB technology and supportability itself.
This individual will be critical in providing not only hands on contributions but also bring an additional valuable external perspective to the future strategic architecture of the HUB. 2025 will be a busy year of adding at minimum two additional product lines from two different source systems as well as feeding multiple downstream systems with valuable / aligned claims data.
Responsibilities:
- Some level of insurance background strongly preferred with background in Claims / Claims Management ideally
- US based with fluent English skills required while the role is remote there will be a significant amount of interaction daily through Teleconferencing. In addition ability to travel to Chicago / home office with some frequency
- Flexibility to consistently work CST / EST hours but also at times support Australia / UK meeting times
- Required cultural fit with Gallagher Basset midwest / familyowned business culture where work needs to be driven & delivered but through a type B mindset
- Need to be a selfstarter with a comfort in ambiguity. Needs to work well in an environment that at times can lack structure individual needs to be comfortable creating the structure for their work as well as delivering it
- Significant role will be to mentor / collaborate with internal FTEs success is raising the game of the entire team. The team is diverse in most ways with many of the resources being in Chicago but also globally.
- Must be able / willing to collaborate with a remote team work independently / dependently at the same time.
Key Skills
Technical
- Generic but deep Architecting / Modeling background Conceptual / Logical / physical
- Current & Future state development
- Experience with implementation and management of centralized Data Infrastructure
- Strong proficiency in Python design / engineering as well as SQL
- Design / implementation experience with cloud / hosted environments such as AWS Azure etc.
- Deep experience with implementation of SSIS and TSQL
- Experience preferred building realtime systems with high availability
- Good understanding of VM memory management etc.
Others
- Experience preferred DevOps and familiarity with Agile Methodologies as well as SDLC processes
- Visio and/or any Arch Documentation Tools experience required
- Excellent communication skills the ability to work with a wide range of executives as well as team members with varying degrees of experience / technical sophistication. Strong written communication abilities.
- Ability to work well with other highly intelligent / diverse architects this is not merely a development role its expected to be a leadership and collaboration role with other peers of a similar position who are already staffed on the team.
- Inquisitive / curious disposition requested we are looking for folks that find as well as solve problems. Resource needs to be willing to be thoughtfully engaged and utilize their soft skills to collectively make the team better than the sum of its parts.