Product Area Lead Architect (EU, UK, US)
About Accelerant
Accelerant is a data-driven risk exchange connecting underwriters of specialty insurance risk with risk capital providers. Accelerant was founded in 2018 by a group of longtime insurance industry executives and technology experts who shared a vision of rebuilding the way risk is exchanged – so that it works better, for everyone. The Accelerant risk exchange does business across more than 20 different countries and 250 specialty products, and we are proud that our insurers have been awarded an AM Best A- (Excellent) rating. For more information, please visit .
Location: Remote
Department: Product & Technology
Reports to: Director of Engineering
Product Area: Insights, Analytics & Workflows
Job Description
Accelerant is seeking a Product Area Lead Architect to provide hands on, operational architectural leadership for our Insights, Analytics & Workflows product area. This role operates at a Principal level , influencing architecture and execution across multiple autonomous product teams. You will work closely with team architects, engineering managers, product managers, and Data Science teams to ensure teams move fast without fragmenting the architecture .
This is not an ivory tower architecture role. It is highly collaborative, pragmatic, and operational, focused on identifying architectural gaps, managing dependencies, and enabling teams to execute confidently within a shared architectural framework. You will championstandards basedarchitecture, leveraging web standards, open protocols, and industry conventions to build interoperable, accessible, and future proof systems.
Key Responsibilities
Operational Architectural Leadership
- Ensure architectural alignment across product teams, partnering closely with team architects and engineering managers
- Proactively identify architectural gaps, technical debt, and qualityrisks;drive resolution through collaboration and influence
- Manage cross team technical dependencies to enable independent, parallel execution
- Translate architectural strategy into clear, actionable guidance that teams can apply sprint by sprint
Cross Team Coordination & Alignment
- Facilitate architectural discussions and resolve technical conflicts across teams through principled, pragmatic decision making
- Act as an escalation point for complex cross team technical challenges
- Ensure architectural decisions are clearly communicated, understood, and consistently applied
Design and Innovation
- Define and maintain architectural patterns across backend services, APIs, data platforms, andfront endsystems
- Design scalable, resilient systems for analytics, workflow orchestration, and intelligence features
- Guide decomposition of legacy systems intowell definedservices and domains
- Evaluate technologies and data stores, favoring open standards andlong termmaintainability
- Architect distributed systems with focus on reliability, fault tolerance, and scalability
Standards & Governance
- Establish API design standards ensuring consistency, discoverability, and ease of integration
- Define front end standards prioritizing web platform capabilities, progressive enhancement, and accessibility (WCAG)
- Create governance frameworks that balance standardization with team autonomy
- Drive adoption of industry standards (OAuth2, OpenID Connect,OpenTelemetry,JSON:API) over proprietary alternatives
Technical Leadership
- Partner with engineering teams on design reviews, PR reviews, and implementation guidance
- Establish standards for cross cutting concerns: API versioning, auth, observability, error handling, and resiliency patterns
- Collaborate with platform and DevOps teams on containerization, CI/CD, and cloud native deployment
- Produce clear technical design documentation that drives alignment and knowledge sharing
- Mentor engineers and raise the overall architectural maturity of the organization
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