Location(s)

Jacksonville, Florida

Details

 

Kemper is one of the nation’s leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kemper’s products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team, you are helping to provide an experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises. 

Kemper is currently seeking a full-time Technical Architect to work in our Jacksonville, FL office with a focus on internal and external applications supporting P&C Insurance.  In this role you will be responsible for providing architecture leadership across multiple development teams and working with both IT and Business teams to define their roadmap, solution architecture, detailed design, and hands on development.

Responsibilities may also include vendor relationship management, product evaluations, strategic platform planning, and ensuring alignment with overall DevOps and Cloud strategy.

Responsibilities

Working with Senior IT and Business Managers to design systems according to Kemper’s strategic roadmap.Working with development teams designing, supporting and sometimes hands-on developing systems for the different Lines of Businesses.Collaborating with other members of the Enterprise Architecture team on current and future technologies and approaches.Participating in Proof-of-Concept work to evaluate software, platforms and capabilities.Leading a team through the initial stages of a development program and assisting through the execution phase.

Qualifications

8+ years of progressively more responsible work experience in a technical discipline.Experience with technologies like Java, Spring Framework, AWS landscape, Postgres SQL.Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins is a plus.Experience working with applications in a hybrid environment of On-Premises, Cloud, and SaaS.Experience with design, development, and deployment of cloud native solutions such as Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, cloud data platforms is a plus.Experience with NoSQL, Messaging Platforms, Atlassian tools, Cloud migration, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Organizational Change Management with a focus on business outcomes is desirable.Experience supporting applications/systems with multiple integration points, including external third-party systems through APIs.Proven experience in designing and developing large scale enterprise applications in a technical development lead role, solution architecture role, application architecture role or enterprise architecture role.Must have strong presentation, verbal, and written skills.Application performance analysis and tuning experience.The selected candidate will work a hybrid work schedule which will require weekly reporting to our office in Jacksonville, FL

Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination.  
Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. 

Kemper will never request personal information, such as your social security number or banking information, via text or email.  Additionally, Kemper does not use external messaging applications like WireApp or Skype to communicate with candidates.  If you receive such a message, delete it.  

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