Portfolio Solutions Architect

Role Description

This position is 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 the technology strategy, software solution architecture, and solution pattern development and application to deliver high impact, timely solutions to the business.

• Apply expert/advanced level knowledge of all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Understand how the solution architecture layers impact the solution design and user experience.
• Adapt to a high degree of change due to the speed of technology change and evolving business needs.
• Accountable for ownership of department level solution pattern/template development.
• Create value added solutions that fit a specific business area’s needs and solution portfolio.

Qualifications

• 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 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.
• Demonstrated superior knowledge in requirements engineering, software architecture, software testing, and software deployment.
• Able to integrate the software development model with a given project management methodology such as Agile or waterfall or hybrid.

Requirements

• Prior work within Insurance or finance industry.
• .NET / Azure.
• Salesforce.
• At this time, we're not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, employee assistance program.
• Life insurance, disability plans, parental leave.
• Paid time off, 401k, and tuition reimbursement.
• Flexible workplace that allows for work-life balance, career growth, and retirement assistance.
• Annual incentive (bonus) plan eligibility.