About CCC

CCC Information Services Inc. is the technology platform for the underwritten assets economy. CCC technology, insights, and support connect industries – insurers, automotive manufacturers, collision repairers, parts suppliers, lenders, fleet operators and more – to advance decision-making, productivity, and customer experiences for thousands of clients worldwide. Clients leverage CCC’s network management, data management, AI, operational workflows and customer experience solutions to efficiently scale, interact, transact and achieve their unique business objectives. CCC was ranked a best mid-sized company to work for by Forbes (2019). BuiltIn Chicago, Austin and LA named CCC a top place to work in 2020. Diverse perspectives and experiences are core to CCC’s success and award-winning culture of more than 2,000 employees worldwide. We hold inclusion as a core value and are committed to celebrating and cultivating the diversity of our team. With a 40+ year track record of innovation, CCC’s tenacious spirit and growth mindset turn next generation technology into real world solutions and empower team members to expand their knowledge and potential. Headquartered in Chicago, CCC has 11 locations worldwide. CCC’s principal PE investors are Advent International, Technology Crossover Ventures, and Oak Hill Capital Find out more about CCC Information Services by visiting cccis.com.

Job Description Summary

Our team is looking for a talented Application Architect to be part of the innovative CCC ONE product team. We build enterprise class, hosted solutions that span multiple data centers and public clouds and service hundreds of thousands of end-users. This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated person interested in leading the transition to an open, service-based approach defined by cohesive and beautiful RESTful public APIs. At CCC, you will work alongside Enterprise Architecture, DevOps, Software Engineers and Product Owners in an agile environment building modern software solutions at scale.

Job Duties

• Design predictable resource-oriented REST APIs using standard HTTP response codes, authentication and verbs
• Unify disparate backends into cohesive, beautiful and secure public APIs
• Take a microservice and DDD approach to model larger domains into smaller domains, represented by services.
• Applies architectural concepts of generalization, abstraction, encapsulation, loose coupling and high cohesion to improve designs.
• Prepares and present architecture artifacts such as sequence diagrams, data flows, high level architecture views.
• Understands common patterns and anti-patterns for code, microservices, and enterprise architecture.
• Works closely with developers, site reliability, QA automation, and other teams in the delivery of products.
• Prepare API documentation

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and documenting public APIs in a SaaS delivery model at scale
• 7+ years work experience using Microsoft technologies, preferably .NET and C# focused
• 2+ years at a rapidly growing startup or within a cutting-edge team at a larger tech company
• Hands on experience building and hosting microservices in production using Kubernetes, Docker, and/or Azure Service Fabric
• Knowledge of API management platforms/gateways such as Apigee or Kong
• Extensive experience dealing with security concerns around API development including access management providers such as Okta or Azure AD
• Experience with Microsoft Azure and/or AWS
• Proven ability to prepare and present architectural artifacts such as diagrams and specifications
• Familiarity with technical considerations involved in designing for complex systems at large scale
• Eagerness to collaborate with other teams, good interpersonal communication, and organizational skills

Other Beneficial Skills

• Production troubleshooting skills that span systems, networks and code Experience with Docker containers

CCC Information Services employees are part of an inclusive culture that brings together diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Our team is defined by our values of: Integrity, Customer-Focus, Innovation, Diversity & Inclusion, and Tenacity. Together, we help our clients and each other achieve new goals. 

CCC is committed to providing employees with opportunities to advance their careers and skillsets. CCC team members receive access to training and education reimbursement is available.

CCC offers competitive compensation, which may include bonuses and stock options, and generous benefits. Health insurance, PTO, 401K, are just some of the benefits available to team members. CCC’s top priority is the health and safety of our clients and our staff, which is why we have expanded our remote work benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualified job candidates will be interviewed by phone and video. Dependent upon role and responsibilities, new hires will be eligible for remote work immediately, with all necessary office equipment provided upon start date.

Each team member plays an important role in the company’s success and each team member has a voice. CCC employee engagement and job satisfaction ratings consistently exceed industry norms – underscoring the value CCC places on its employees.