AEL Solution Architect
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Job Location:
Des Moines, IA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
9 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
AEL Solution Architect
Location: Des Moines IA
The Solution Architect is responsible for designing solutions specific to business project context and strategy execution at a macro and micro level with architecture design and implementation oversight in the domains of internal and third-party integrations web portals and APIs business technology platforms policy administration journey mapping and omnichannel. The incumbent establishes and owns application architecture solutioning and oversight for core and business applications; ensures existing applications and technology continues viability; and creates and drives standard reusable and consistent approaches to development processes. The incumbent collaborates with internal and external partners to ensure technology decisions and blueprints align with the overall Enterprise Architecture framework and works with other department architects to ensure alignment to meet team department and company goals. The Solution Architect partners and works closely with key stakeholders and strategic vendors service providers as well as developers to plan design &/or challenge the application architecture approaches that support cross-functional business needs and align with longer term best practice standards and viable technology roadmaps. Individuals within this role specialize in insurance IT discipline areas of application solutions.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develops maintains documents and governs on-prem and cloud application architectures for the technology application portfolio and infrastructure domain in support of business functions.
- Enforces enterprise standards and policies in-line with Enterprise Architecture and system development lifecycle (SDLC) standards and strategies and responsible for implementation and standardization for the IT discipline.
- Facilitates discovery of internal and external customers critical business issues and requirements.
- Oversees the ongoing optimization and future state evaluation of current and future applications including the creation and maintenance of application roadmaps as well as ensuring the viability and longevity of existing applications and processes.
- Drives cloud technology innovation maturation/readiness and leverage into IT investments.
- Provides technology leadership mentoring pair programming training and proof-of-concept development for adoption of cloud technology through all areas of application development in particular as it relates to high-performing development teams.
- Partners with IT Leaders on business case development with careful consideration of migrating from current or legacy solutions and approaches.
- Conducts research and development around new technology concepts or implementations and makes recommendations for driving business value.
- Provides advanced architecture and engineering support to automate and administrator AELs application systems into all enterprise information systems.
- Drives planning and execution of roadmaps and technology enhancements.
- Creates and maintains standards and documentation related to business processes procedure and infrastructure.
- Assesses current applications and architecture to ensure current implementations align with industry guidelines best practices and management approved standards.
- Develops plans for implementing management directives in most secure manners with least disruption.
- Assists various IT departments with design implementation and troubleshooting of technologies. Provide standards and best practice guidance and requirements to technology teams when no solution is currently available
- Bachelors degree in information technology or related field of study; Ten (10) years of related information technology work experience; Five (5) years of information technology experience working with cloud solutions; Experience with front-end development best practices including mobile platforms.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft framework and a variety of software.
- Experience with financial trading/management platforms like Aladdin Bloomberg Terminal Thomson Reuters Eikon or similar.
- Strong customer service orientation.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work cooperatively and successfully with co-employees customers and other outside third parties.
- Ability to successfully handle pressure and meet deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
- Ability to analyze and apply principles of logical thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
- Ability to make decisions and recommendations on technology strategies while considering various options and business needs.
- Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts and mathematical applications to tasks
Some notes from the hiring manager.
- They are completing an RFP
- Dig into stacks figure out what they need
- Read specs ask questions to providers
- Skill set- someone that has done SA work application development can work with providers- annuity or life insurance client investment work- understand how relationships work
- .NET shop/Microsoft
- Cloud experience prefer AWS but Azure too
- Mindset understand what it means to design apps to cloud environments
- Financial platforms experience is a huge plus working with big financial platforms
- Someone can get it done; dig in and understand; comfortable talking to vendors; understand tech side and break down to understand business side too.
- Operate in the gray; figure out what needs to happen.
- Design what needs to be built and communicating to members and on call for questions etc. Act as consultant to understand the solution.
Key Skills
- Business Process
- VMware
- Cloud
- HTML5
- Windows
- Project managements
- AWS
- Infrastructure
- Web Services
- JQuery
- Java
- Computer Engineering
- Solutions design
- Technical Solutions
- Analytics
