Requirements: English
Company: UNIQA
Region: Krakw , Lesser Poland Voivodeship
UNIQA Group in Poland is represented by UNIQA TU S.A. and UNIQA TU na Zycie S.A., offering property, motor, and life insurance for both individual and institutional clients. UNIQA is close to its customers, providing professional advice and assistance in choosing insurance.
We appreciate and promote commitment, unconventional ideas, and action. If you value a workplace where the atmosphere of cooperation and trust is important, we invite you to join us!
Lead Solutions Architect
- Lead Solution Design: Oversees the future digital platforms design and roadmap, engaging with business stakeholders to define scope, and guiding countries on platform adoption and legacy integration
- Global System Integration: Analyze and understand existing systems across multiple countries and develop integration strategies that support seamless data flow, performance, and reliability
- Technology Evaluation: Oversee the architectural design of a cloud-based distribution channel middle-layer platform within a business domain
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with Retail and Bancassurance business teams to define a clear platform scope that informs technical strategy and roadmap, while serving as a technology advisor to business leaders by translating complex technical challenges into actionable, business-aligned insights
- Solution Governance: Establish architecture guidelines and ensure documentation, compliance, and alignment with internal and regulatory requirements across countries, while guiding local teams to optimize platform use and collaboratively define scalable architectures that account for diverse legacy systems
- Risk & Impact Assessment: Identify technical risks and dependencies, and design mitigation strategies to minimize disruptions across business units and geographies
- Mentoring & Leadership: Provide guidance to development teams, and IT staff, ensuring solutions are implemented according to architectural best practices
- Support Delivery & Operations: Collaborate with DevOps, QA, infrastructure teams, and solution providers to support the full delivery lifecycleincluding CI/CD, infrastructure as code, performance optimization, and risk mitigationwhile ensuring platform development and implementation align with group technical standards
- AI and Data-Driven Innovation: Where relevant, explore and propose AI-enabled solutions for insurance industry
- Cross-Border Compliance: Ensure all solutions are designed with consideration for jurisdictional data residency, privacy laws (e.g., GDPR, local insurance regulations), and security standards
Must-Have Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in InsurTech, specifically on digital insurance middle layer
- Deep understanding of insurance domain processes such as underwriting, policy administration, claims, billing, and customer engagement
- Extensive experience in designing multi-channel sales platforms. Strong background in designing scalable, secure, and resilient distributed systems, including APIs, white-labeling front end, middleware, microservices, and legacy modernization
- Deep understanding of insurance domain processes such as underwriting, policy administration, claims, billing, and customer engagement
- Good knowledge of Java software development, web technologies and DevOps principles
- Independent way of working and proactivity, as well as strong communication and cooperation skills
- Experience with agile way of working.
- Ability to drive decisions and consensus across multi-functional and international teams
- Fluency in English
Nice-to-Have Qualifications:
- Experience or strong interest in AI and machine learning applications in insurance, such as fraud detection, claims automation, or customer insights
- Knowledge of Insurtech trends, digital insurance models, and emerging technologies
- Cloud platform experience (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) with relevant certifications
- Experience working in multi-country environments, understanding the nuances of localization, infrastructure constraints, and regulatory variations
- Project management skill would be preferred
- CEE/SEE language and/or German is a plus
- Willingness to travel abroad at least once per quarter
We offer:
- Stable employment based on an employment contract
- Interesting work in an international environment
- Working among professionals with many years of experience in insurance
- Freedom to act - space for creating and implementing new solutions
- Good atmos