SENIOR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT - Architecture & Technology Management
Happiest Minds Technologies · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- On site
- Full-time
- $150,000 / year
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job highlights
- Lead insurance integration architecture across multiple business lines.
- Govern and define enterprise-wide integration strategies.
- Design API-first and event-driven integration patterns.
- Ensure integration solutions are scalable, secure, and compliant.
- Guide engineering teams and vendors on integration best practices.
About the role
Senior Solutions Architect - Insurance Integration
Happiest Minds Technologies is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect with expertise in Insurance Integration to lead the definition, governance, and execution of enterprise integration architecture. This role is crucial for ensuring seamless interoperability across various insurance lines of business, core platforms, financial systems, customer applications, data ecosystems, and external partner services. You will provide architectural leadership to agile delivery teams, vendors, and stakeholders, ensuring all integration solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic integrations with core systems including GL/Finance, CRM, Payment Gateway, Fraud systems, Master Data Management, Input/Output Management Systems, Document Management, and Data Lakehouse platforms.
- Collaborate with business, operations, security, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure end-to-end alignment of technology decisions with business goals.
- Design and drive API-first and event-driven integration patterns across internal platforms and external ecosystems.
- Maintain enterprise-grade architectural artifacts such as integration blueprints, canonical models, interface specifications, event models, sequence diagrams, and architectural decision records.
- Ensure integration alignment with business processes across all Lines of Business, including new business, underwriting, policy lifecycle, collections, renewals, claims, and financial posting.
- Embed harmonization, maintainability, reliability, performance, observability, auditability, and regulatory compliance into all integration designs and implementations.
- Guide engineering leads, development teams, and vendors to ensure consistent implementation of integration patterns, coding standards, non-functional requirements, and architectural governance.
Key Skills and Competencies
- 12-15+ years of experience in enterprise-scale integration architectures in large, complex insurance or financial services organizations.
- Deep experience defining and governing enterprise-wide integration architectures, ensuring secure, scalable, high-performing connectivity across policy, underwriting, claims, billing, customer, partner, and finance systems.
- Proven success in leading integration modernization programs using API-first, microservices-based, and event-driven patterns.
- Extensive hands-on expertise designing and implementing integrations using REST API, JSON, XML, and Kafka Stream.
- Strong delivery experience integrating with core insurance platforms across multiple domains.
- Proven ability to design and govern integrations with GL/Finance Systems, CRM platforms, Payment Gateway solutions, Fraud management systems, and AWS Data Lake platforms.
- Solid understanding of non-functional architecture, including security, resilience, performance, and observability.
- Demonstrated experience operationalizing architectural governance in a global enterprise environment.
- Ability to produce and maintain comprehensive architectural artifacts.
- Knowledge of Agentic and MCP technologies.
- Experience with Cloud Services Integration.
- Experience leveraging GenAI/VS Code to enhance engineering quality review, documentation, design validation, and developer productivity.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Proven leadership capability guiding engineering leads, solution designers, platform teams, and vendor partners.
Skills & topics
- Solutions Architect
- Integration Architecture
- Insurance Technology
- Enterprise Architecture
- API Design
- Event-Driven Architecture
- REST API
- Kafka
- Cloud Integration
- Happiest Minds Technologies
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight 12-15+ years of insurance integration experience, API-first, and event-driven patterns.
- Showcase leadership: Emphasize your experience guiding engineering teams and vendors on architectural governance.
- Demonstrate technical depth: Detail your expertise with REST API, JSON, XML, Kafka Stream, and core insurance platforms.
- Align with values: Research Happiest Minds' focus on technology and innovation, and how your skills fit their mission.
- Prepare for technical interviews: Be ready to discuss integration blueprints, canonical models, and non-functional requirements.
Technical preparation
Master REST API, JSON, XML, and Kafka Stream.,Design integration blueprints and canonical models.,Understand security, resilience, performance, observability.,Familiarize with core insurance systems integration.
Behavioral questions
Describe leading integration modernization programs.,How do you ensure alignment with business goals?,Explain governing integration across multiple LOBs.,How do you embed compliance and security in designs?
Frequently asked questions
- What are the key responsibilities for the Senior Solutions Architect at Happiest Minds Technologies?
- The Senior Solutions Architect will define, govern, and lead enterprise integration architecture for the insurance sector. This includes strategic integrations, designing API-first and event-driven patterns, creating architectural artifacts, and ensuring alignment with business goals and compliance standards.
- What specific insurance systems does this role involve integrating with at Happiest Minds Technologies?
- This role involves leading integrations with core insurance systems such as GL/Finance, CRM, Payment Gateway, Fraud systems, Master Data Management, Input/Output Management Systems, Document Management, and Data Lakehouse platforms.
- What technical skills are mandatory for the Senior Solutions Architect position at Happiest Minds Technologies?
- Mandatory skills include 12-15+ years in enterprise integration architecture within insurance or financial services, deep experience with API-first and event-driven patterns, expertise in REST API, JSON, XML, Kafka Stream, and integrating with core insurance platforms.
- Does Happiest Minds Technologies prefer specific integration patterns for this Senior Solutions Architect role?
- Yes, Happiest Minds Technologies emphasizes API-first and event-driven integration patterns. The role requires designing and driving these patterns across internal platforms and external ecosystems.
- What kind of architectural artifacts are expected from the Senior Solutions Architect at Happiest Minds Technologies?
- The role requires maintaining enterprise-grade architectural artifacts such as integration blueprints, canonical models, interface specifications, event models, sequence diagrams, and architectural decision records.
- What are the preferred skills for the Senior Solutions Architect role at Happiest Minds Technologies?
- Preferred skills include knowledge of Agentic and MCP technologies, experience with Cloud Services Integration, and leveraging GenAI/VS Code for enhancing engineering quality, documentation, and design validation.
- What is the required educational background for the Senior Solutions Architect position at Happiest Minds Technologies?
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field is required. Proven leadership capability in guiding teams and vendors is also essential.
- How does Happiest Minds Technologies ensure architectural governance with this Senior Solutions Architect role?
- The Senior Solutions Architect is responsible for operationalizing architectural governance in a global enterprise environment, guiding teams on consistent implementation of patterns, standards, and requirements.