About the role
Job Title: Solution Architect – Life & Annuity Platforms (LifePRO) – Offshore
Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced offshore Life & Annuity Solution Architect to support our Platform Solutions team in responding to client RFI/RFPs, developing solution proposals, preparing estimation models, and supporting pricing activities for policy administration platform implementations and conversions.
This role will work closely with Solution Architects, Sales, Product SMEs, Conversion SMEs, and Delivery Leaders to analyze client requirements, develop solution approaches, estimate effort and timelines, create proposal content, and support strategic platform pursuits focused on Life & Annuity policy administration systems.
The ideal candidate will possess strong Life & Annuity domain expertise, excellent analytical and documentation skills, and experience working on policy administration implementations, conversions, or system modernization initiatives
Key Responsibilities:
RFI/RFP Response Management
- Analyze RFI, RFP and assessment documents.
- Extract functional, technical, conversion, integration, and operational requirements.
- Identify mandatory requirements, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and scope drivers.
- Draft high-quality responses for platform capabilities, implementation approach, conversion methodology, testing, governance, hosting, and support.
- Develop win themes and solution differentiators
- Support solution architects in creating end-to-end target solution designs.
- Document proposed architecture and implementation approaches.
- Analyze current-state and target-state operating models.
- Define scope boundaries, assumptions, constraints, and exclusions.
- Assist in preparing implementation strategies and deployment models.
- Support SaaS and TPA solution offerings.
Estimation and Pricing Support
- Maintain estimation workbooks and pricing calculators.
- Prepare ROM (Rough Order of Magnitude) estimates.
- Support development of fixed-price and T&M proposals.
- Perform benchmarking against prior deals and historical implementation data.
- Assist in documenting estimate assumptions and pricing rationale.
Proposal and Presentation Development
- Create client-facing solution decks.
- Develop executive summaries.
- Prepare implementation roadmaps and phased deployment approaches.
- Support proposal reviews and revisions.
Required Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field.
Experience
- 5–10 years of experience in Life & Annuity insurance.
- Minimum 3 years working with policy administration platforms (preferably LifePRO).
- Strong understanding of Life & Annuity products, functions (New Business, Underwriting, Policy Servicing, Claims, Billing , Commission etc.)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Word, CoPilot.
- Experience supporting:
- RFI/RFP responses
- Solution consulting
- Business analysis
- System modernization initiatives