Solution Architect

Marsh McLennan is seeking candidates for the following position based in the Noida/Gurgaon office:

Associate Director - Applications Development

Job Overview:

The MMC Tech department is looking to hire a highly skilled and experienced Systems Architect to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing the architecture of our enterprise applications, ensuring they meet business requirements, align with industry best practices, and support the organization's strategic goals. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders, development teams, and solution architects to ensure the successful delivery of scalable, secure, and innovative enterprise applications. You will also be collaborating with the MMC Enterprise Architecture team on standards, practices and policies, ensuring that they are adopted efficiently.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop the architecture of our enterprise applications, ensuring alignment with business requirements, scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions, considering both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools to support the application architecture, considering factors such as scalability, interoperability, and ease of maintenance.
• Define the high-level structure, components, and interactions between them to ensure a cohesive and extensible application architecture.
• Promote the use of architectural patterns, best practices, and design principles to ensure consistency and quality across applications.
• Drive the development and adoption of reusable components, libraries, and frameworks to improve development efficiency and maintainability.
• Collaborate with Solution and Data Architects to ensure alignment with the overall Enterprise Architecture Technical strategy and standards.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring adherence to architectural principles, coding standards, and best practices.
• Conduct architectural reviews and provide feedback to development teams to ensure compliance with the defined architecture and quality standards.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices related to Enterprise Application architecture, and provide recommendations for their adoption.

Experience Required:

• Experience in using open-source development stacks such as MEAN and MERN.
• Strong knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• In-depth knowledge of application architecture principles, practices, and technologies.
• Strong expertise in designing scalable, secure, and maintainable architectures for enterprise applications.
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture and technology, including various cloud platforms and deployment models
• Experience in evaluating and selecting technologies, frameworks, and tools for enterprise application development.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing architectural patterns, such as microservices, event-driven architecture, or service-oriented architecture.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies and platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience in designing and implementing integration solutions, including API design and integration patterns.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex business requirements into technical solutions.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders and development teams.
• Agile delivery experience using methodologies like Scrum or SAFe, and tools like Jira and Azure DevOps
• Ability to prioritize and handle work to critical project timelines.

Skills and Attributes:

• Candidates must possess full professional proficiency in both written and spoken English.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork & facilitation since this role requires working with multiple teams.
• Powerful communicator, in both verbal and written form, able to articulate concepts and ideas, break through barriers, engage people, and work effectively with others under pressure.
• Ability to quickly establish credibility with multiple technical stakeholders, including executive, engineering, architecture, operations, security, quality assurance, etc.
• Neutral towards technology, vendor, and product choices; more interested in results than in personal preferences.
• Unflappable in the face of opposition to architectural ideals.

Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is the worlds leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people. The Companys more than 85,000 colleagues advise clients in over 130 countries. With annual revenue of $23 billion, Marsh McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment through four market-leading businesses. Marsh provides data-driven risk advisory services and insurance solutions to commercial and consumer clients. Guy Carpenter develops advanced risk, reinsurance and capital strategies that help clients grow profitably and pursue emerging opportunities. Mercer delivers advice and technology-driven solutions that help organizations redefine the world of work, reshape retirement and investment outcomes, and unlock health and well being for a changing workforce. Oliver Wyman serves as a critical strategic, economic and brand advisor to private sector and governmental clients. For more information, visit marshmclennan.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, caste, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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