PWC

Duck Creek Application Architect, Manager

PWC$99K — $232K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree required
  • 5 years of experience in software development and project management
  • Preferred experience with Duck Creek policy, billing, or claims
  • Knowledge of Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance applications
  • Skilled in leading development teams, both onshore and offshore
  • Proficiency in software design, development, and deployment
  • Ability to create unit tests for business logic

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, modify, and deploy software using industry standards
  • Lead teams and manage client accounts effectively
  • Focus on strategic planning and mentoring junior staff members
  • Ensure project success while maintaining high standards
  • Motivate and inspire team members to deliver quality work
  • Identify and pursue opportunities for operational improvement
  • Embrace technology and innovation to enhance project delivery

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401k retirement plan with matching contributions
  • Paid holidays and vacation time
  • Personal and family sick leave
  • Access to annual discretionary bonus programs
Full Job Description
Industry/Sector
Insurance

Specialism
Operations

Management Level
Manager

Job Description & Summary
As a business application consulting generalist at PwC, you will provide consulting services for a wide range of business applications. You will leverage a broad understanding of various software solutions to assist clients in optimising operational efficiency through analysis, implementation, training, and support.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member's unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
Effectively mentor others.
Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

The Opportunity

As part of the P&C Insurance Operations team, you are expected to design, develop, modify, and deploy software using proven programming concepts and practices. As a Manager, you are expected to lead teams and manage client accounts, focusing on strategic planning and mentoring junior staff. You are expected to be accountable for making sure project success and maintaining standards, enhancing your leadership style, and motivating, developing, and inspiring others to deliver quality.

Responsibilities

- Design, develop, modify, and deploy software using industry standards
- Lead teams and manage client accounts
- Focus on strategic planning and mentoring junior staff
- Confirm project success and maintain elevated standards
- Enhance leadership style and motivate team members
- Develop and inspire others to deliver quality
- Identify opportunities for improvement
- Embrace technology and innovation

What You Must Have

- Bachelor's Degree
- 5 years of experience

What Sets You Apart

- Education, certifications and/or experience in Duck Creek policy, billing or claims preferred
- Knowledge of P&C Insurance domain (Policy, Claims, and Billing applications)
- Proficiency in Duck Creek Policy, Billing, Claims, and Insights
- Proficiency in Duck Creek Author, Express, Server, User Admin, and TransAct
- Experience in designing, developing, modifying, and deploying software
- Skilled in planning, designing, and maintaining Duck Creek user interfaces
- Ability to lead a team of developers and work with onshore & offshore teams
- Proficiency in architecting and creating solution designs
- Skilled background in developing unit tests for testing business logic

Travel Requirements
Up to 60%

Job Posting End Date

The salary range for this position is: $99,000 - $232,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. All hired individuals are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave, and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance

Learn more about how we work: https://pwc.to/how-we-work

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled or the posting is removed, unless otherwise set forth on the following webpage. Please visit this link for information about anticipated application deadlines: https://pwc.to/us-application-deadlines

About PWC

PwC is a multinational professional services network of firms headquartered in London, United Kingdom, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand. PwC ranks as the second-largest professional services network in the world and is considered one of the Big Four accounting firms, along with Deloitte, EY and KPMG. PwC firms operate in 157 countries, 742 locations, with 276,000 people. As of 2020, 26% of the workforce worked in the Americas, 26% in Asia, 32% in Western Europe, 5% in Middle East and Africa and 11% in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Learn more about PWC
Size
284,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1998

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