Hybrid Digital Solutions Architect – Hybrid, In Office 10 days/Month

at National Guardian Life Insurance Company

• Job title: Digital Solutions Architect – Hybrid, In Office 10 days/Month
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Madison, United States

About the role

• Digital Solutions Architect at NGL creating scalable architecture solutions for business needs. Engaging with teams to ensure architecture aligns with business objectives and technology trends.

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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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

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!