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Company

Sammons Financial Group Companies · 5 hours ago

Director, Principal Architect

West Des Moines, IA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$110K/yr - $229K/yr

15+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Drive strategic technology solutions

Collaborate across diverse technical teams

Understand the non-technical aspects of the business

Ensure practical and impactful implementations

Demonstrate flexibility in Agile delivery

Balance short-term priorities with a focus on achieving target end-state solutions

Bring a solution-oriented mindset

Identify gaps and iterate to refine outcomes

Share opinions effectively

Align stakeholders and build consensus

Qualification

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APIsMuleSoftKafkaAzureKubernetesSalesforceFinancial Services CloudTechnical Contract ReviewsCI/CD pipelinesSAFe operating modelAgile DeliveryHuman capital managementComputer programming languages

Required

Effective verbal and written communications skills and the ability to communicate with business partners and other IT staff

Problem solving skills sufficient to perform research and recommend a proposed solution to problems

Able to work on multiple tasks and meet established deadlines

Able to effectively direct and coordinate the work of other team members on a project without having HR management responsibility for them

Knowledge of computer programming languages as required for the system

Established leadership track record of human capital management and succession principles, practices, and procedures

Demonstrated effective negotiating and influence leadership skills

Demonstrated ability to present and adapt ideas in a business and user friendly language

Preferred

Integrations and Data Streaming: APIs, MuleSoft, Kafka integrations to/from particularly the FAST Policy Admin platform

Cloud/Virtualization: Azure, Kubernetes

Salesforce: Knowledge/certification, particularly in Financial Services Cloud

Technical Contract Reviews: to ensure the appropriate accommodation of disaster recovery, AI, uptime/availability, data, security, and privacy considerations

Agile Delivery & DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, continuous improvement practices particularly within a SAFe operating model

College Degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Management Information Systems

Minimum 15 years' IT development experience or equivalent

Full lifecycle experience as a senior level architect on multiple complex enterprise /strategic solutions

Benefits

Health

Dental

Vision

Company Paid Retirement

PTO and Holiday Pay

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

Healthy balance between work and personal lives

Competitive PTO

Generous number of paid holidays

Incentive program for defined goals

Monetary rewards based on individual and/or overall company performance

Company

Sammons Financial Group Companies

Sammons® Financial Group Companies (collectively, Sammons Financial Group) provide today’s most sought after life insurance, annuity, and retirement products.

Founded in 1938

West Des Moines, Iowa, USA

1001-5000 employees