Functional Architect
Toronto, CA
Title: Functional Architect
Location: Remote
Company Description:
Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS) empowers the financial sector, with a focus on insurance, to transform and become digital, innovative, and agile. Backed by 40 years of industry expertise, Sapiens offers a complete insurance platform, with pre-integrated, low-code solutions and a cloud-first approach that accelerates customers’ digital transformation. Serving more than 600 customers in 30 countries, Sapiens offers insurers across Property & Casualty, Workers’ Compensation and Life markets the most comprehensive set of solutions, from core to complementary, including Reinsurance, Financial & Compliance, Data & Analytics, Digital, and Decision Management. Sapiens’ team of more than 5,000 employees operates through our offices in North America, the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific.
Description:
Provide end to end functional architect support to R&D and project initiatives through understanding of current functionality, design of enhancements to the Sapiens Life and Pension policy administration system and ability to create solutions within an ecosystem.
Responsibilities:
- Support design of project End to End solutions ensuring all project stream solutions are in line with the overall solution.
- Write end to end solutions for specific policy administration system enhancements.
- Analyze current system functionality to determine when enhancements are required and the best enhancement to meet business requirements.
- Write and / or review Requirements and Design Documents.
- Ensure all Requirements, Design Documents are delivered on time.
- Act as a Consultant in requirement and design workshops internally and externally.
- Engage with Lead BA/PD/PM on project Actions, Assumptions, Risks, Issues, Decisions, Constraints.
- Review the Technical Design Specifications.
- Support Development throughout the build phase of projects.
- Review the Test Scripts and support testing throughout the test phase.
- Help to define acceptance criteria and high-level estimates.
- Work in accordance with Sapiens processes & Sapiens best practices.
- Provide clients with functional analysis and design advice guidance and consultancy in Sapiens solution throughout the project.
- Participate in Peer Review activities, interacting with Business Analysts, to ensure quality and completeness of requirement and design work.
- Configure/Support the configuration of the parameters that determine the functionality specified in the design documentation.
- Ensure Product Material collateral is updated and presentable.
- Support training sessions on the system and its product sets.
Mandatory Skills & Requirements:
- 5 years of Experience working as functional architect for administration or actuarial systems in a life insurance, pensions, and/or annuity environment.
- Proven experience creating solutions for large multi-component systems included integrations with portals and / or third-party vendors.
- Ability to consider the big picture as well as system details in a solution.
- Proven experience implementing US insurance regulations such as 7702 / 7702A, RMD, etc.
- Proven experience as functional architect in integration projects, including policy administration system and integration platform.
- Able to demonstrate depth of knowledge of life and pension products and processes.
- Demonstrated ability to understand business requirements and create implementable solutions that meet these requirements.
- Experience in database based systems.
- Demonstrated ability to work productively on a cross functional and cross geographic team.
- Fluent English – both writing and verbal
- Knowledge of SQL and Excel, experience with other programming languages desirable.
Preferred:
- Previous experience working with a Life or Pensions policy administration system, Digital platform and Business intelligence.
- Experience in collaborative and agile working methods.
- Preferred Educational Requirements.
- BSc in Computer Science, information systems engineering, or similar.
At Sapiens, we are dedicated to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment. We believe that diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences make us stronger and more innovative. We are committed to creating a culture where every individual is valued and can thrive regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, or any other characteristic.
Sapiens is an E-Verified & Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran