VP, Solutions Architect

Responsibilities Collaborates with business stakeholders to understand requirements and align solutions with business goals. Develops solution architectures for complex systems, ensuring consistency with IT target architecture while aligning to business requirements. Understands the current North America underwriting landscape problems and business priorities to facilitate the development of a holistic roadmap. Communicates the architecture objectives to business and IT stakeholders and consults during the development of requirements. Provides oversight throughout design and implementation into the productive solution. Ensures the solution meets functional, non‑functional and regulatory requirements, especially in the insurance domain. Designs the overall architecture that includes system, components, application, data and infrastructure, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards. Delivers presentations to business partners that clearly define technology solutions aligning with business requirements. Manages cross‑domain challenges, ensuring different components work together as a cohesive system. Focuses heavily on designing solutions to demonstrate how technology supports business outcomes and works closely with non‑technical teams. Bridges the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders. Utilizes knowledge across multiple technology domains (software, infrastructure, integration, security) and collaborates with horizontal technical/application and platform architects. Qualifications 8+ years of experience as a solution architect, delivering solutions for large and complex projects. Experience working with insurance platforms, including COTS products Duck Creek and Guidewire. Strong knowledge of IT architecture principles, enterprise frameworks, and various technology platforms, combined with the ability to develop architecture strategies using reference architectures, domain architecture patterns and technology frameworks. Strong understanding of the insurance industry, particularly Property & Casualty, and hands‑on experience designing, architecting, and tuning insurance platforms. Ability to understand business requirements, convert them into technology solution specifications, and create a blueprint for development and integration teams. Experience designing cloud‑based solutions (AWS, Azure) and implementing IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and hybrid models. Strong knowledge of cloud architecture patterns, principles, best practices and emerging technology in the insurance industry. Experience with MuleSoft, AWS integration patterns, Spring boot, Java, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Angular and AI/ML solutions. Technical certifications such as TOGAF and AWS Solutions Architect are highly valued. Ability to monitor market trends and guide future technologies and capabilities to help business value at AIG. Strong communication and presentation skills. For positions based in New Jersey, the base salary range is $126,000–$171,000 and the position is eligible for a bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable incentive plan. In addition, we’re proud to offer a range of competitive benefits, a summary of which can be viewed here: US Benefits Overview. AIG provides equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender expression, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected categories. AIG is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants and employees with disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation, please send an email to View email address on click.appcast.io. Veterans are encouraged to apply. #J-18808-Ljbffr American International Group