National Guardian Life Insurance Company · 1 day ago
Digital Solutions Architect (Hybrid - In Office 10 days/Month)
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expNational Guardian Life Insurance Company (NGL) has been a leading independent life insurance company since 1909. They are seeking a Digital Solutions Architect to deliver scalable and resilient solution architectures while collaborating with business and technology teams to address business challenges.
InsuranceLife Insurance
Responsibilities
Assess proposed business ideas and determines architectural significance
Lead the identification and analysis of business drivers to develop solution architecture requirements
Analyze technology industry and market trends and determines potential impact upon the enterprise
Research and make recommendations on technology build vs. buy decisions
Partner with Business and IT Stakeholders and external third-party partners to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient architectures that address business problems
Develop rough cost estimates (RCEs) for various candidate solution architectural options
Collaborate with other architects and system specialists to establish technical reference architectures, architecture patterns, and standards to promote enterprise efficiency and agility, ensure solution architecture quality, and ensure alignment of solutions with enterprise architecture directions
Drive technology discussions and analyze the current landscape for gaps in addressing business needs
Review existing architecture and capabilities from technical perspective and contribute to building architecture and technology roadmaps
Determines primary dependent systems and infrastructure; Determines high level system integrations needed to implement the proposed business ideas
Develop holistic architectural options, ensuring that all architectural aspects of the system, including data, application, infrastructure, and security are addressed
Identify, document, and communicate Architecture standards, patterns, and best practices
Participate in the development of enterprise architecture strategies and roadmaps
Evolve re-usable architectures and document best practice patterns for cloud-native development in both public and hybrid cloud usage scenarios
Evaluate new cloud technologies for fit-for-purpose and socialize architecture recommendations with agile teams
Resolve ad hoc architecture and technology support requests from application developers as it relates to developer tools and technologies
Incorporate Modern Security practices into architecture design including Zero Trust principles, Threat Modeling, IAM, and compliance framework built into design
Incorporate recommendations for practical adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities into solutions within the boundaries of the organizational AI framework
Collaborate with agile teams to develop cloud applications by providing architecture guidance and hands-on technical support during all phases of agile SDLC
Mentor and develop others
Passionate about technology and solving important design challenges
Qualification
Required
Experience building enterprise applications using modern architecture techniques (serverless, micro services and containerization) and cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
Possess a solid understanding and experience of architecture patterns including SOA, integration, data, streaming and cloud architecture
Ability to articulate and can effectively communicate with technical teams, non-technical business leaders, and clients
Ability to quickly understand business requirements and propose reference architectures and technology solutions. Capable of presenting options and weighing implementation complexities and risks to recommend the right technical decision
Experience building architectural patterns at scale, including thoughtfully designed application and data solutions, repeatable data pipelines, and efficient software engineering principles
Knowledge of emerging trends in the digital transformation, technology and architecture space and ability to recommend solutions
Demonstrated project management leadership
Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
Familiarity with architecture frameworks (ITIL, Zachman, TOGAF), architecture processes and architecture governance
A minimum of five years of relevant hands-on solution architecture/design experience in data, application, infrastructure, or security domains required
A minimum of one year of relevant hands-on Solution architecture exposure to building applications on AWS required
A minimum of five years of large-scale software development or application engineering with some coding experience in two or more of the following languages: Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Node.js, Python required
Preferred
4 Year Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field Engineering fields desired
Benefits
20 days of Paid Time Off growing to 25 days after 5 years
11 Paid Holidays (10 company holidays and 1 personal holiday of your choice)
Health care, dental and vision plans
Up to $1,500 (Family) or $1,000 (Single) annually towards a Health Savings Account
Annual bonus based on company performance
Paid Parental Leave
401(k) match up to 9%
Paid Sabbatical after 8 years
Paid Volunteer Time
Education Assistance Program
Employee Recognition Program
And much more!
Company
National Guardian Life Insurance Company
Since 1909, National Guardian Life Insurance Company (NGL) has been one of America’s most successful and highly rated independent life insurance companies.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Brian Hogan
Sr VP & CFO - Retired
Nancy Stoddard
SVP & CFO at National Guardian Life
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