TruStage · 3 weeks ago
Portfolio Solutions Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$125K/yr - $188K/yr
10+ years expTruStage is on a mission to make a brighter financial future accessible to everyone, focusing on creating a diverse and inclusive environment. The Portfolio Solutions Architect will provide advanced consulting and guidance at a complex level of portfolio architecture, driving technology strategy and developing solutions to meet business needs.
FinanceProperty & Casualty InsuranceFinancial ServicesInsurance
No H1B
Responsibilities
Responsible for providing advanced consulting and guidance at the most complex level of portfolio architecture. An incumbent in this position performs in an expert capacity, possesses a highly differentiated or specialized skill critical to the business and provides guidance to other Architects, IT employees, or business partners
Drive “how” to build solutions optimizing techniques and methods for development speed and consistency by applying knowledge of the business unit, industry standards, technical architecture, and emerging technologies
Create and design new solutions, applying theoretical principles of computing and mathematics in order to analyze, test and assess software solutions
Create high-quality departmental frameworks and patterns used by developers to create solutions in a systematic, controlled, and efficient manner
Drive patterns that deliver speed to value (i.e. support automated testing, drive consistency and reuse)
Focus on security and reliability needs of the solution
Apply knowledge of emerging technologies
Integrate existing patterns and industry standards to create custom Company standards
Apply in depth knowledge of a product, product line, and business unit. For example, understanding the sales process and why a customer would purchase or not purchase a product, demographics, geographics, marketing strategy, user environment, etc
Apply in depth knowledge of project methodology, maintenance requirements and documentation standards in solution design
Apply knowledge of all aspects of the system life cycle, from specification, analysis and design, development, testing, and maintenance
Evaluate end user needs before designing and testing new solutions to meet those needs. This may involve conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, analyzing and developing flow charts, models, diagrams and algorithms
Apply knowledge of all levels of the technical architecture stack to optimize the performance of the solution to meet the business need
Assist developers in applying established frameworks appropriately to solution development needs
Anticipate problems with all phases of solutions development, deployment, and usage
Understand and participate in the entire solution from ideation and visual design through the SDLC, lifecycle activities such as extending or updating a system, planning retirement of a system
Recommend IT team project structure that meets the speed, agility and quality needs of the project
Lead development teams in all phases of the SDLC in highly complex, strategic business projects
Mentor developers on new frameworks, technologies, techniques, and methods
Work with Enterprise Architecture on solution option feasibility analysis to ensure departmental solutions align to enterprise architecture goals
Share ideas, knowledge and concepts across the organization
Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations
Create technology feasibility models through research and Proofs of Concept (POC)
Work with Enterprise Architecture and Sourcing to identify and procure needed licenses for software or hardware required to support evolving technical and business needs
Partner with IT Owner and business to drive the overall solution portfolio roadmap for the department or business unit
Identify areas for improvement across the departmental application portfolio and integrations with those systems
Apply knowledge of solution total cost of ownership (TCO), extensibility to meet evolving needs, and means to dispose of the solution via clear migration paths, to drive direction for overall solution lifecycle roadmap
Share ideas, knowledge and concepts across the organization
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Systems Engineering, Management Information Systems, Business Administration or equivalent work experience
Minimum of ten years IT experience including demonstrated proficiency in the last five years in at least one of the following: IT/Business Processes and/or SOA in the financial services industry, Infrastructure/Technical Architecture, Business Systems Applications Architecture, Information/Business Intelligence Architecture
Minimum of five years IT project leadership (e.g., Technical Team Lead) experience of large scale, complex, high risk, high visibility IT projects
Demonstrated superior knowledge in industry standard business and technology process best practices, tools and methodologies
Expert in all aspects of the software life cycle, from specification through analysis and design, to testing maintenance and evaluation of the product
Demonstrated ability to lead a cross-functional team in the application of a new structured development process through all phases: (concept, execution and implementation) at a departmental and project level
Demonstrated superior knowledge in requirements engineering, software architecture, software testing, and software deployment. This includes how the software or solution interacts with the entire technical architecture to deliver the required business function
Able to integrate the software development model with a given project management methodology such as Agile or waterfall or hybrid, to influence the velocity and quality of the end product
Preferred
Prior work within Insurance or finance industry
.NET /Azure
Salesforce
Benefits
Annual incentive (bonus) plan
Medical
Dental
Vision
Employee assistance program
Life insurance
Disability plans
Parental leave
Paid time off
401k
Tuition reimbursement
Flexibility, including working in a place you prefer
Hybrid working
Company
TruStage
TruStage is an insurance service provider company.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Sidd Kuckreja
SVP, Chief Technology Officer
Brian J. Borakove
Senior Vice President - Deputy Chief Financial Officer
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