Company Description
Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS) is a global leader in intelligent insurance software solutions. With a robust platform, customer-driven partnerships, and a rich ecosystem, we empower insurers to achieve operational excellence in a rapidly changing marketplace. Our innovative SaaS offerings support core solutions for property and casualty, workers’ compensation, and life insurance, including reinsurance, financial & compliance, data & analytics, digital, and decision management. Serving over 600 customers in more than 30 countries, Sapiens is recognized by industry experts and is a Microsoft Top 100 Partner.
Role Description
This is a full-time hybrid role for a Functional Architect located in Bengaluru. The Functional Architect will be responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation of architectural solutions, integrating systems, and ensuring alignment with business requirements. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, managing project timelines, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions.
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 in life and/or pensions and/or Annuity environment.
- Proven experience as functional architect in projects, including policy administration system and integration integrations with 3rd party systems.
- 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.
- Experience with actuarial concepts and calculations – An advantage
- Fluent English – both writing and verbal, other European languages - An advantage.
- 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.
- BE/B.Tech in Computer Science, information systems engineering, or similar.