Architect - DevEx Strategy

1. Job Overview

Verisk Analytics is a data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry with over 50 years of experience. Verisk delivers value through expertise and scale, empowering communities and businesses to make better decisions on risk faster. Verisk reports recognition for workplace culture and employer quality, including: Great Place to Work recognitions (U.S., U.K., Spain, India, Poland), The Wall Street Journal "Best-Managed Companies", and Forbes "World's Best Employer." The organization includes multiple business units such as Underwriting Solutions, Claims Solutions, Property and Restoration Solutions, Specialty Business Solutions, Catastrophe and Risk Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Life Insurance Solutions, and Verisk Maplecroft.

The DevEx Strategy team creates the foundations and guardrails that let product and application teams move fast and safely. The team designs and maintains reusable starter kits, service and UI templates, runtime libraries, and the integration frameworks teams depend on. The mission is to remove duplication, standardize best practices, and provide a plug-and-play approach for enabling capabilities — including AI — across AntiFraudAnalytics.

Role purpose: We are hiring an Architect / Principal Engineer to own the technical vision and delivery of reusable platform building blocks and an organization-wide AI integration framework. This role will design end-to-end reference architectures, starter kits, common services, micro frontend patterns, and developer-facing tooling so teams can adopt common capabilities with minimal friction. The role will also drive strategy and pragmatic adoption of AI across products by defining patterns for connecting domain data, orchestrating model calls, surfacing AI results in micro frontends, and ensuring secure, observable, and maintainable integrations.

2. Key Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and delivery of reusable platform building blocks and an organization-wide AI integration framework.
• Design end-to-end reference architectures, starter kits, common services (APIs / jars / libraries), micro frontend patterns, and developer-facing tooling so that teams can adopt common capabilities with minimal friction.
• Drive the strategy and pragmatic adoption of AI across products by defining patterns for connecting domain data, orchestrating model calls, surfacing AI results in micro frontends, and ensuring secure, observable, and maintainable integrations.
• Define the architecture and roadmap for the DevEx Strategy domain: reusable service templates, code starter kits, libraries, SDKs, and micro frontend patterns.
• Design and deliver a generic AI integration framework that enables application teams to plug into standard interfaces for data, model orchestration, and UI surface (micro frontends) without bespoke engineering per app.
• Produce reference architectures, blueprints, and hands-on starter projects (backend + frontend + CI/CD + observability) that accelerate new projects.
• Build and maintain reusable components: APIs, SDKs/jars, libraries; keep them secure, documented, and versioned.
• Lead PoCs and prototype solutions that validate architectural approaches and evaluate new technologies (cloud, AI platforms, orchestration tools).
• Drive cross-team collaboration to ensure the templates and frameworks meet real product needs and evolve with feedback.
• Establish standards and best practices around service design, API contracts, authentication/authorization, data access, testing, release automation, and monitoring.
• Mentor and guide engineering teams and architects across the organization on adoption of the frameworks and patterns.
• Partner with product, security, infrastructure and data teams to ensure governance, privacy, compliance, and performance goals are embedded in platform capabilities.
• Participate in architecture reviews and help teams migrate from legacy approaches to standardized solutions.
• Own technical documentation, developer onboarding flows, and demos to help adoption.

3. Required Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with progressive ownership over architecture and platform initiatives.
• 6+ years of software development experience; 3+ years in architect/lead technical roles strongly preferred.

4. Required Skills

• Strong architecture background: microservices, event-driven systems, domain-driven design, API design and governance.
• Hands-on experience building reusable libraries/SDKs, starter kits, and reference implementations for other engineering teams to consume.
• Solid cloud experience with cloud (preferably AWS) — design for scalability, reliability and cost-efficiency.
• Practical experience with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Backend expertise in Java / Spring (or equivalent) and demonstrable knowledge of service packaging (jars), dependency management, and versioning.
• Frontend proficiency (Angular, or similar) and experience with micro frontend architectures and patterns.
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Strong understanding of data integration patterns and connectors for domain datasets.
• Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, tracing, logging) and operational excellence practices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and mentor engineers.
• Excellent communication skills; able to translate architectural tradeoffs for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

5. Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing frameworks or platforms for AI/ML integration (LLM orchestration, model calling patterns, prompt management, etc.).
• Experience with AI/ML lifecycle tooling or ML platforms (SageMaker, Hugging Face, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, etc.).
• Knowledge of prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embedding stores, and data privacy/safety considerations for AI.
• Familiarity with event streaming platforms and data pipelines.
• Strong security and compliance mindset (IAM, encryption, secure coding practices).
• Open source experience or community contributions to developer tooling.

6. Experience Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with progressive ownership over architecture and platform initiatives.
• 6+ years of software development experience; 3+ years in architect/lead technical roles strongly preferred.

7. Additional Job Information

• Employment type: Full time
• Work mode: Hybrid (job posting includes the tag "#LI-Hybrid")
• Locations provided: Hinsdale, IL; DuPage County, IL; Illinois, United States
• Notice period: Not specified in the source text.
• Benefits mentioned: Health Insurance, a Retirement Plan, Disability benefits, and a Paid Time Off program; competitive total rewards package with base salary determined based on role, experience, skill set, and location.
• Equal opportunity employer statement: All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers; Verisk considers all qualified applicants without regard to protected characteristics and notes a minimum hiring age of 18 except where a higher age limit applies by law.
• How to apply: Refer to the employer's job posting (apply via the job posting or employer career site). (No specific application instruction or internal contact was provided in the source.)