Accelerant is a data-driven risk exchange connecting underwriters of specialty insurance risk with risk capital providers across more than 20 countries and 250 specialty products
Job Summary
Accelerant is a data-driven risk exchange connecting underwriters of specialty insurance risk with risk capital providers across more than 20 countries and 250 specialty products.
The Product Area Lead Architect role is highly collaborative and operational, focusing on identifying architectural gaps, managing dependencies, and enabling teams to execute confidently within a shared architectural framework.
The role involves architecting customer-facing GenAI features, driving AI adoption, and scaling AI-driven development workflows to improve productivity and code quality.
Matching Summary
Accelerant is a data-driven risk exchange connecting underwriters of specialty insurance risk with risk capital providers across more than 20 countries and 250 specialty products.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Operational architectural leadership
Cross team technical dependency management
Full stack SaaS architecture expertise
Cloud native environment experience
AI enabled engineering skills
API design and governance
Distributed systems architecture
Nice-to-have
Pragmatic and collaborative mindset
Mentoring and coaching engineers
Experience with GenAI and ML integration
Strong communication and facilitation skills
Experience with containerization and CI/CD
Standards based architecture advocacy
Key Requirements
8 to 12+ years software engineering and architecture
Proven architectural leadership across multiple agile teams
Experience managing cross team dependencies
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
Proven ability to drive AI adoption in engineering