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Chief Technology Architect - Insurance - - Toronto

Accenture

Toronto, Ontario

Chief Technology Architect - Insurance - - Toronto

Accenture

Toronto, Ontario
 
Salary: Information not available
 

ARE YOU READY to step up and take your technology expertise to the next level?

There is never a typical day at Accenture, but that’s why we love it here! This is an extraordinary chance to create a rewarding career at Accenture Technology. Working in a digitally driven, innovation-led environment where you can help clients shift to the New using leading-edge technologies on some of the coolest projects you can imagine.

 

About the role:

As the Chief Technology Architect – Insurance, you will be responsible for shaping the technology vision and architecture strategy for leading insurance clients. You will guide complex digital transformation initiatives across life, health, P&C, and reinsurance domains, delivering scalable and future-proof solutions that meet business, regulatory, and customer expectations. This role combines deep insurance industry knowledge with cutting-edge technology expertise to drive innovation and business value.

Responsibilities

Strategic Technology Leadership

  • Define and execute enterprise architecture strategies aligned with insurers’ business goals and transformation agendas.
  • Lead digital innovation programs including modernization of legacy systems, cloud adoption, API-led integration, and intelligent automation.
  • Advise CIOs, CTOs, and business leaders on technology modernization, regulatory compliance, and emerging tech (e.g., AI, IoT, blockchain in insurance).

Solution Architecture & Delivery Oversight

  • Architect end-to-end insurance solutions including policy administration systems (PAS), claims, underwriting, and customer experience platforms.
  • Ensure robust integration of platforms such as Guidewire, Duck Creek, Majesco, Sapiens, and other core insurance suites with cloud-native and digital front-end ecosystems.
  • Provide architecture governance across programs, supporting scalability, security, and data integrity.

Client Engagement & Consulting

  • Serve as a trusted advisor on digital transformation journeys including core platform replacement, data modernization, and ecosystem partnerships.
  • Collaborate with functional consultants, delivery managers, and client stakeholders to co-create scalable, future-ready solutions.
  • Support pre-sales and solutioning efforts by defining reference architectures and delivering thought leadership.

Team Leadership & Capability Building

  • Lead and mentor a team of architects and technical consultants across geographies.
  • Drive architecture best practices, reusable accelerators, and solution blueprints across the insurance portfolio.

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Have questions or want to learn more about us? We would love to hear from you!

richard.a.murray@accenture.com

 

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About Accenture

Accenture is a talent and innovation-led organization helping companies to reinvent and keeping our clients ahead of change. Across more than 120 countries and 40 industries, we work as one team with a common goal: to create 360-degree value for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities, by embracing change.

You’ll work with top companies - clients and ecosystem partners and interact with leaders from every industry. When we bring our breadth of technological capabilities together with our ingenuity, they are greater than the sum of their parts. Help our clients reinvent. Reimagine iconic brands. Bring new products, ideas and ways of working to life with emerging technology.

We take a broad view of diversity that reflects all our people, and we are committed to ensuring everyone feels connected, with a strong sense of trust and belonging. We focus on fostering allyship, learning, inclusive ways of working, vibrant employee resource groups and networks, and accessibility, along with marking meaningful cultural observances with our people. Our networks nurture trusted relationships, mentorship opportunities and avenues for growth, benefiting participants across all career levels and fostering community and inclusion at both the global and local levels.

We take flexibility seriously — focusing not only on where but also when and how you work. We hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives, and different lived experiences. Wherever you work, whatever skills you want to grow, there’s a program for you. We invest in our people’s capabilities so they can work with purpose, and boldly and innovatively solve problems. Continuous learning is our superpower. We put skills at the heart of everything we do. We continuously prepare our people to meet new demands and in turn, help ensure they remain highly relevant with vibrant career pathways, inside or beyond Accenture.

We encourage our people to bring their authentic selves to work and our commitment to our 750,000+ people from a variety of cultures, beliefs and backgrounds makes us more innovative. Our offices are more than just places to plug in—they're environments designed to support connection, creativity and well-being. They’re inclusive and accessible, too. We operate our business with a clean conscience – with strong commitment to the environment, ethics and human rights, responsible buying and community impact.

Join our exceptional people who are combining their ingenuity with the latest technologies to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges.