Markel · 2 days ago

Solutions Architect

United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

10+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Ability to balance business needs and costs with the technology, including analysis of cost-reduction opportunities.

Provides technology solution expertise, technical leadership, requirements, and assistance to Systems Analysts, Systems Engineers, other Solutions Architects, and application development teams

Champions for architectural integrity and balances this integrity with business needs and constraints

Maintains ongoing knowledge of current and changing business and technological environments and technical platforms across domains. Must be able to translate this knowledge into end-to-end integration blueprints to lead the migration to new, stable, scalable environments that keep the business positioned for success.

Provides recommendations to improve and build new capabilities or alternative solutions, including documenting the company’s existing or new solutions and technology portfolios

Offers technical direction on how to adopt and use the latest tools and technologies, including evaluating new technologies and providing recommendations

Liaisons with Enterprise Architects and other idea generators to research emerging technologies and recommends technologies that will increase operational efficiency, infrastructure flexibility, and operations stability and develops initial solution designs to prototype

Leverages current internal agile and Dev Ops processes to optimize delivery practices but also looks outside for opportunities to disrupt from within and continually expand what is possible using Markel’s current technology

Enforces a system of governance framework, and policy standards for systems and software

Up to 10% travel.

Qualification

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IT ExperienceArchitectureConsultingBusiness AnalysisSenior EngineeringApplication DevelopmentInfrastructure DeliveryStrategic PlanningConceptual ArchitectureRisk ManagementIntegrationDesign TechniquesLarge-Scale EnvironmentsProblem-SolvingCommunicationTime ManagementGuidewireInsurance industryEnterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF)Insurance certifications

Required

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, other related field or equivalent work experience, including military experience

10+ years of IT experience

5+ years of architecture, consulting, or business analyst experience

5+ years senior engineering of application development or infrastructure delivery

Creation of strategic roadmaps and conceptual architecture diagrams for implementations

Must have practical experience in design techniques and tools, risk assessment and management, integration of large-scale environments (multi-user, multi-platform, multi-site, etc.)

Ability to travel occasionally