Principal Software Architect – GenAI

October 17

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Duck Creek Technologies

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Insurance • SaaS • Enterprise

Duck Creek Technologies is a leading provider of comprehensive software solutions for the insurance industry, specifically focusing on property and casualty (P&C) insurance. Their platform offers a suite of core system solutions, including policy, billing, claims, and analytics. With a strong emphasis on low-code configurability, Duck Creek enables insurers to quickly implement changes and launch new products to meet market needs. The company also emphasizes partnerships with leading technology innovators to deliver enhanced customer experiences and streamline operations for insurers around the world.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2000

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $230M Private Equity Round on 2020-06

📋 Description

• Acts as an architecture leader in a domain area in multiple activities and teams. • Responsible for the high-level design/architecture decisions and drives continuous improvement in architecture and engineering across set of software products/services. • Responsible for solutioning and planning for the incorporation of generative AI capabilities across the entire Duck Creek Suite. • Acts as a Domain Architect for the GenAI domain, leading and representing the design/architecture decisions of that domain area. • Provides architectural and technical leadership, participating and leading with Engineering Communities of Practice. • Refines technical backlog items and creation of the overall solution concept and architectural direction for multiple engineering teams. • Provides guidance and support to the developers in multiple engineering teams across our product suite in the completion of stories against design/architecture plans. • Mentor and help develop engineers and architects in their career growth. • Drives and coordinates our technical position with key technology vendors. • Can be hands-on, designing and coding solutions for Agile stories with key architectural impact.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Masters Degree and/or equivalent experience relevant to functional area • 7+ years of engineering and/or architecture experience • 5+ years supervisory and strategic leadership experience • Generative AI Expertise • Experienced in creating solutions incorporating Generative AI platforms and tooling into production products. • Hands-on experience with LLM integration, RAG pipelines, vector databases, prompt engineering, and hallucination mitigation strategies. • Familiarity with fine-tuning and model evaluation techniques for large language models. • Strong command of object-oriented programming principles with expert knowledge of Java or C#, and Python. • Proficiency with relevant frameworks and libraries such as Spring Boot, .NET Core, TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangChain, Hugging Face Transformers, and OpenAI/Anthropic SDKs. • Experience in model lifecycle management, including training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining. • Skilled in MLOps practices: CI/CD for ML, model versioning, drift detection, and governance. • Knowledge of cost optimization strategies for LLMs in production environments. • Expert in distributed software patterns (DDD, microservices, serverless, event-driven) and cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP).

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment • Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance • 401(k) Retirement Plan • Flexible Spending & Health Savings Account • Paid holidays, vacation, and volunteer time • Employee assistance program and other benefits