Accenture

Accenture Life Insurance and Annuity Industry (ALIP) Integration Architect Lead

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3 days ago
Boston, MA, USA +39 moreStaff+

Base Salary

$113k - $338k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design end-to-end integration architectures covering APIs, middleware, data flows, and service orchestration.
  • Develop integration strategies, roadmaps, standards, and governance aligned with business and technology objectives.
  • Lead and mentor integration and architecture teams while providing development oversight and technical guidance.
  • Serve as a liaison among business teams, development teams, stakeholders, external partners, and potential clients.
  • Design scalable integration solutions using REST APIs, asynchronous and event-based integrations, ETL pipelines, and enterprise integration platforms.
  • Identify integration risks and dependencies, support deployments, monitor performance, and drive continuous improvement.
  • Ensure integration architectures meet scalability, resiliency, performance, security, and client requirements.
  • Provide initiative status reports to stakeholders and leadership.

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of experience in enterprise integration architecture, software engineering, and large-scale system integration, including significant experience leading architecture and engineering teams.
  • At least 8 years of experience designing and implementing REST APIs, asynchronous or event-based integrations, ETL and data transformation pipelines, and enterprise integration solutions across cloud and on-premises environments.
  • At least 5 years of hands-on experience with MuleSoft, Spring Integration, Kafka, API Gateway, messaging platforms, ESB technologies, and cloud-native integration services.
  • At least 5 years of experience with cloud architecture and integration patterns across AWS or Azure, including containerized and Kubernetes-based deployment models.
  • At least 5 years of experience defining API standards, integration governance, security architecture, OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, and authentication and authorization frameworks.
  • At least 5 years of experience with observability, resiliency, scalability, performance optimization, and operational support for enterprise distributed systems.
  • At least 3 years of life insurance and annuities domain experience, including underwriting, policy administration, servicing, billing and payments, claims, illustrations and quotes, advisor or distributor workflows, and digital customer experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience delivering technology solutions in life insurance and annuity carrier environments or insurance SaaS platforms.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience; an associate's degree requires at least 6 years of work experience.
  • Strong systems analysis, solution design, technical leadership, communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, architectural modeling, and integration-pattern knowledge.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage.
  • 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.
  • Travel may be required, ranging from 0% to 100% depending on business and client needs.
  • The posting is anticipated to remain open until December 27, 2026.
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About Accenture

10,000+ employees

Accenture is a global professional services firm providing management consulting, systems integration and technology, cybersecurity, and business process outsourcing for enterprises and governments. It operates a services-driven model delivering projects and managed services, often with major cloud and software partners, across industries worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin and publicly traded on the NYSE (ACN), it originated as Andersen Consulting and adopted the Accenture name in 2001.

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