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Software Architect

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Who are we? A strategic and trusted insurance partner, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), provides a broad range of commercial property, casualty and specialty insurance coverages and outstanding service to customers and brokers around the world. Part of Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance operations, we bring our solutions to market with our stellar brand name, top-rated balance sheet, and the expertise of our global team of professionals, who exude excellent capabilities and strong character.

We are a values-based organization where respect, integrity, excellence, collaboration, and passion define who we are and how we do business. We value of backgrounds, experience, and perspectives and strive to foster an inclusive environment that enables all our team members to bring their best selves to work. We are one team committed to building a culture where every teammate has the opportunity to contribute and be recognized. Want to be part of the team building the finest property, casualty and specialty lines insurance company in the world?

Learn more about our unique culture and history.

Job Opportunity:

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has an exciting opportunity for a Software Architect who possesses extensive technical and delivery skill. The role will aid in defining the future of our technical architecture and be integral to the solutioning and design for critical automation efforts.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Evaluating, identifying and developing software solutions

Provide feedback, coaching, mentoring for globally distributed engineers

Make sustainable technical and architectural decisions for your team(s) and products while ensuring high levels of quality

Evaluate and select appropriate software, tools and integration methods

Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering Leadership on the product roadmap while owning the technical portion of it

Navigate the ambiguity that is iterative product development

Actively seek ways to improve business software processes and interactions

Design Microservices that communicate via well defined API’s.

Comfort working with globally distributed resources

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

At least 5-10 years of relevant experience is required.

Experience in a distributed and/or asynchronous platforms such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Azure Service Bus

Demonstrated track record of successfully managing and shipping cloud-based products to market as well as continued maintenance and support

Architectural knowledge in building and scaling microservice based applications

Hands-on experience building applications in Azure, AWS, or GCP

Diverse technical background with desire and ability to be hands on throughout the project lifecycle

Practical application of industry best practices and standards (REST, DDD, Microservices, OpenAPI)

Experience applying software design patterns to solve real world problems

Strong knowledge of datastores (RDBMS, NoSQL) and ability to make choices among available technologies based on requirements

Understanding of the Property & Casualty Insurance industry is desirable

Ability to prioritize and handle work to critical project timelines in a dynamic environment and develop new approaches to complex design problems

Experience developing internal frameworks and libraries using C#, Java, or C++

Experience using NoSQL databases such as Elastic, Couchbase or Cosmos DB

BHSI Offers: • A competitive package and exciting growth opportunities for career-oriented teammates • A dynamic, action oriented, and thoughtful environment centered on always doing the right thing for our customers, teammates and our other stakeholders • A purposely non-bureaucratic organization that embraces simplicity over complexity and emphasizes individual excellence in a team framework

NOTE: Compensation will be commensurate with experience. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Team Member may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization