Product Area Lead Architect (EU, UK, US)
Accelerant8 months ago
Remote, EMEAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide operational architectural leadership and alignment across multiple autonomous product teams.
- Identify and resolve architectural gaps, technical debt, quality risks, and cross-team technical dependencies.
- Define architectural patterns for backend services, APIs, data platforms, front-end systems, analytics, workflow orchestration, and intelligence features.
- Design scalable, resilient, fault-tolerant distributed systems and guide legacy-system decomposition.
- Establish API, front-end, accessibility, authentication, observability, error-handling, versioning, and resiliency standards.
- Drive adoption of OAuth2, OpenID Connect, OpenTelemetry, JSON:API, web standards, and open protocols.
- Collaborate with platform and DevOps teams on containerization, CI/CD, and cloud-native deployment.
- Architect customer-facing GenAI features using LLMs, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, and conversational AI interfaces.
- Define production ML integration patterns covering serving endpoints, API contracts, versioning, health monitoring, deployment workflows, responsible AI, privacy guardrails, and output validation.
- Lead design reviews, code and pull-request reviews, technical assessments, technology evaluations, and architecture documentation.
- Drive AI-enabled development workflows, coach team architects and senior engineers, and mentor engineers across the organization.
Requirements
- 8 to 12+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture roles.
- Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js.
- Deep knowledge of web platform fundamentals, browser-native capabilities, architecture principles, design patterns, and distributed systems.
- Experience designing and evolving well-structured APIs for platform integrations.
- Proven ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs in complex, evolving systems and operate across multiple agile teams.
- Experience managing cross-team dependencies and connecting architectural strategy with day-to-day execution.
- Experience in cloud-native environments, preferably AWS.
- Demonstrated experience using AI coding tools and understanding AI applications for development productivity and code quality.
- Proven ability to drive AI adoption and transformation within engineering organizations.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, collaboration, problem-solving, and pragmatic operational skills.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement.
- Opportunity to lead architecture across distributed product teams in a data-driven specialty-insurance technology company.
- Mentoring, coaching, and organization-wide influence over engineering standards, AI adoption, and technical maturity.
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About Accelerant
Accelerant builds a data-driven risk exchange for specialty insurance, connecting MGAs and underwriters with aligned risk capital and software to run their programs. Its platform ingests and analyzes underwriting and claims data to support pricing, capacity allocation, and operations, and it partners closely with specialty underwriting teams. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Atlanta, the company focuses on improving efficiency and profitability for program-based insurance businesses.