We are building a greenfield Commercial Lines insurance platform with an initial focus on Commercial Property. The platform is designed as a modern microservices-based ecosystem supporting underwriting, rating, policy administration, carrier management, and third-party integrations.

The

Solution Architect

will report into Enterprise/Solution Architecture and work closely with Product, Underwriting, Actuarial, Engineering, and Data Engineering teams. This is a hands‑on architecture and governance role responsible for defining the target‑state architecture and producing architecture deliverables that engineering teams will build against.

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Responsibilities

Define service decomposition, bounded contexts, and data ownership per service

Design the event‑driven backbone, including Kafka (or equivalent) domain event models, event schemas, versioning, and replay semantics

Author OpenAPI 3.1 specifications for all inter‑service and externally consumed APIs before Engineering builds against them

Design the commercial insurance data model, including the Account → Applicant → Policy → Coverage → Location → Building → Unit/Exposure hierarchy and NAICS‑specific exposure schema extensions

Design the immutable Premium Transaction Ledger enabling full rating‑factor‑level reconstruction of every bound dollar across policy, coverage, location, building, exposure, carrier, and factor levels

Enforce architectural separation between the stateless Rating Service (pricing only) and the Rules Service (eligibility, referral, and straight‑through disposition logic)





Design the Carrier Service abstraction layer supporting multiple carriers and quota‑share allocation models

Define integration architecture for SSO federation, AMS/clearinghouse connectivity, third‑party data enrichment providers, and payment gateway integrations

Drive non‑functional requirements, including sub‑second rating response times, 99.9% uptime, RPO ≤15 minutes, RTO ≤4 hours, and architectural governance standards such as immutable transactions, effective dating, and prohibition of cross‑service database access

Produce and maintain architecture artifacts, including C4 diagrams, ADRs, API contracts, and data models

Requirements

8+ years solution/enterprise architecture, with at least one greenfield microservices platform shipped end‑to‑end (design through production)

P&C; insurance domain experience, ideally Commercial Lines (account/policy/coverage hierarchies, rating engines, underwriting rules engines). Personal Lines-only background is a gap, not a disqualifier, but must be paired with rapid ramp capacity

Event‑driven architecture in production – Kafka or equivalent, domain event design, CQRS, eventual consistency trade‑offs





API design at the contract level – OpenAPI 3.1, versioning strategy, backward‑compatibility discipline across independently deployable services

Data architecture for regulated, auditable financial transactions – immutable ledgers, effective‑dating, reconciliation jobs, NUMERIC precision handling

Direct experience with reinsurance/quota share, bordereaux reporting, or multi‑carrier allocation is a strong plus, not a hard requirement

Experience integrating IVANS, EZLynx, or similar AMS/clearinghouse platforms

Nice to have

Experience with Microsoft Azure, .NET, and SQL Server

We offer

Extended Healthcare with Prescription Drugs, Dental and Vision, and Healthcare Spending Account (Company Paid)

Life and AD&D; Insurance (Company Paid)

Employee Assistance Program (Company Paid)

Telehealth (Company Paid)

Short‑term Disability (Company Paid)

Long‑Term Disability

Paid Time Off (including vacation and sick days)

Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with Company match

Maternity/Parental/Adoption Leave Top‑up

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Critical Illness Insurance

Employee Discounts

Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions

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📌 Solution Architect (Winnipeg)
🏢 EPAM Systems
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