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Plymouth Rock Assurance · 1 day ago

Platform Architect

Boston, MA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$135K/yr - $180K/yr

5+ years exp

Plymouth Rock Assurance is a leading insurance company that writes and manages over $2.2 billion in personal and commercial insurance. They are seeking a highly skilled Platform Architect to design, implement, and govern enterprise platform solutions across various environments, ensuring scalability, security, and resilience. This role involves driving architecture standards, collaborating with stakeholders, and providing Tier 4 support for complex platform incidents.

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H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end platform architecture (cloud, on-prem, hybrid), including infrastructure, middleware, network, telecom, integration patterns, and automation frameworks

Define, document, and enforce configuration standards, security controls, versioning, and compliance policies across platforms and environments

Develop standards system documentation artifacts such as High-Level Diagrams, Low-Level Diagrams, Data Flow diagrams, SOPs etc. to ensure consistent documentation across the platforms

Lead solution design for platform solutions including but not exclusive to resiliency, automation, and observability

Evaluate and select platform technologies, tools, and patterns aligned with enterprise strategy and best practices

Partner closely with the Enterprise Architecture team to align platform designs with enterprise architecture principles, reference architectures, and long-term technology strategy

Collaborate with the Security team to embed security-by-design, threat modeling, identity, access controls, and compliance requirements into all platform architectures and standards

Work in alignment with DevOps teams to define and standardize CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code patterns, automation frameworks, and operational best practices

Participate in and contribute to architecture review boards to review and approve platform designs and standards

Provide Tier 4 diagnostics and resolution for complex platform incidents (infrastructure, middleware, automation, security)

Help develop solutions to configure, monitor and troubleshoot using platform-native and third-party tools (e.g., Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana)

Design and optimize integration flows, self-service capabilities, and developer experience outcomes

Oversee integration with business applications, third-party services, and internal tools; enable extensibility and automation

Provide program leadership for platform adoption, track roadmaps, SLAs, and usage metrics

Maintain comprehensive runbooks, SOPs, diagrams, and inventories (infrastructure maps, API catalogs, security policies)

Deliver technical/admin training and knowledge transfer to engineering, operations, and business teams

Partner with Network, Security, Middleware, System, Database, DevOps, Operations, Service Desk, PMO, and Application teams to ensure secure, scalable, and integrated platform services

Qualification

Platform ArchitectureCloud PlatformsInfrastructure as CodePlatform SecurityIntegration TechnologiesCI/CDNetworking FundamentalsVendor ManagementITIL FrameworkDocumentation SkillsCommunication Skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience

5-10 years in platform architecture, infrastructure engineering, and platform operations

Demonstrated breadth across platform domains: cloud, on-prem, hybrid, automation, integration, security as well as different workloads (OLAP, OLTP, batch)

Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible)

Hands-on with CI/CD, API gateways, service mesh, monitoring/logging platforms

Expertise in platform security, compliance, and audit readiness

Practical knowledge of integration technologies (REST, GraphQL, event-driven), automation frameworks, and developer enablement

Networking fundamentals for platforms: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs

Excellent communication, documentation, stakeholder engagement, and vendor management skills

Experience with platform governance, policy enforcement, and operational best practices

Familiarity with ITIL framework

Company

Plymouth Rock Assurance

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Founded in 2001

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.plymouthrock.com

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