Solutions Architect - Camunda, Java

Solution Architect (Application Architecture) | Camunda + Kafka

A leading Global Solutions & Services provider to the Insurance market is looking for a seasoned Solution Architect to partner closely with Product Leadership and shape complex, enterprise-grade solutions across multiple delivery towers.

If you thrive on turning business outcomes into robust, scalable architectures—and you’re hands-on enough to get into the detail when needed—this one’s for you.

What you’ll be doing

• Owning solution design across multi-tower / multi-service initiatives, from discovery through delivery.
• Leading customer discovery to understand operational processes, pain points and desired outcomes—then translating that into pragmatic designs aligned to product capability and roadmap.
• Planning build activities with stakeholders, breaking requirements into deliverable features/modules for engineering teams.
• Ensuring engineering best practice: BDD focus, code quality, unit testing, performance benchmarking and troubleshooting.
• Bringing industry best practices into design and delivery, with occasional involvement in pre-sales (demos/proposals).

Essential skills (what we need you to bring)

✅ Camunda BPM experience

✅ Kafka + strong understanding of Kafka architecture

• Experience of hands-on enterprise software engineering (design + coding).
• Strong Java 8+ / J2EE, Gradle/Maven, Spring Boot/Security.
• OO design + data modelling with UML; strong grasp of functional & non-functional architecture constraints. [
• Databases: Postgres / Oracle / MySQL / DB2 + JDBC + ORM tooling.
• Tooling: Git/GitHub/BitBucket, CI/CD (e.g., TeamCity/Jenkins), JUnit 5.
• API-first mindset with OpenAPI (OAS); security exposure to OIDC and OAuth2.
• Comfortable working in Agile environments; familiarity with coding assistant tools / GenAI / agentic approaches.

Desirable (nice to have)

• Insurance domain knowledge and/or ACORD standards exposure.
• Integration tooling such as Apache Camel; ESB/EAI; API gateway/management platforms.
• Cloud: Azure/AWS/GCP; containers and DevOps practices (Kubernetes/Docker).
• App servers (Tomcat/JBoss/WebSphere) and observability (Elastic/Logstash/Kibana).
• Consulting-style stakeholder engagement and presentation skills.

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