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Kemper is one of the nation's leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kemper's products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team, you are helping to provide an experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises.
Kemper currently seeks a full time Architect to work in our Jacksonville, FL office with a focus on back end business services for P&C Insurance. In this role you will be responsible for providing architecture leadership across multiple development teams and working with both IT and Business teams to define their architecture roadmap, solution architecture, detailed design, and hands on development. Responsibilities may also include vendor relationship management, product evaluations, strategic platform planning, and ensuring alignment with overall DevOps and Cloud strategy.
Position Responsibilities:
- Working with Senior IT and Business Managers to define the strategic roadmap.
- Working with development teams supporting systems for the three P&C companies.
- Collaborating with other members of the Enterprise Architecture team on technologies and approaches.
- Participating in Proof-of-Concept work to evaluate platforms and capabilities.
- Leading a team through the initial stages of a development program.
- Provide technical leadership and drive the continued adoption of enterprise standards and best practices.
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments, and roles.
Position Qualifications:
- 8+ years of progressively more responsible work experience in a technical discipline.
- Proficiency in one or more frontend frameworks - Angular, React, Vue
- Proficiency in frontend technologies - JavaScript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, WebComponents. Experience with JWT, OAuth, OpenID, and SAML is a plus.
- Experience with Mobile development - iOS, Android, ReactNative. Experience with UI/UX, PWA is a plus.
- Experience with Java, Spring Framework. Experience with Guidewire Digital products is a plus.
- Experience supporting applications/systems with multiple integration points, including external third party systems through APIs.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins is a plus.
- Experience working with applications in a hybrid environment of On-Premise, Cloud, and SaaS.
- Experience with design, development, and deployment of cloud native solutions such as Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, cloud data platforms is a plus.
- Proven experience in designing and developing large scale enterprise applications in a technical development lead role, solution architecture role, Application Architecture role, or enterprise architecture role.
- Must have strong presentation, verbal, and written skills.
- Experience with APM tools, Application performance analysis and tuning.
- Experience with Test Driven Development.
- This is a hybrid position with 2 days in the office per week.
Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination.
Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
Kemper will never request personal information, such as your social security number or banking information, via text or email. Additionally, Kemper does not use external messaging applications like WireApp or Skype to communicate with candidates. If you receive such a message, delete it.
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