Digital Solutions Architect (Hybrid In Office 10 daysMonth)

We are adding a Digital Solutions Architect to our team! This is a hybrid position requiring to be In-Office 10 days per month.

Who We Are:

Since 1909 National Guardian Life Insurance Company (NGL) has been one of Americas most successful and highly rated independent life insurance companies. We specialize in a suite of innovative products for lifes journey giving people the financial stability careful guidance and peace of mind to lead a life filled with confidence dignity and grace.

NGLs Core Values integrity dependability collaboration compassion and growth are a foundation of our company and help to build on the interactions we have with our policyholders partners funeral homes and each other. We believe in creating an inclusive welcoming environment for all where diversity is celebrated and everyone is encouraged to live their best most authentic self. We offerEmployee Resource Groups for employees to get involved learn network and offer professional and personal development opportunities.

With over 100 years of experience our passion is to serve people.Learn more.

Work Environment:NGL offers a flexible work environment where employees can work fully remote hybrid or onsite at our Madison Wis. office. We support virtual working arrangements in certain states outside of WI.

A Day in the Life:

The primary function of the Digital Solutions Architect is to partner with the Business teams technology teams and external vendor teams to deliver highly scalable flexible and resilient solution architectures that address business problems. This role possesses a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. The ability to think strategically about business products and technical challenges and connect technology with measurable business value and is a critical component of this addition this role functions as an architect with a strong engineering background especially in solutions architecture specifically service oriented architecture and enterprise applications such as cloud computing and software service offerings.

Primary 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.
Determines primary dependent systems and infrastructure; Determines high level system integrations needed to implement the proposed business ideas.
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.

Essential to Your Success:

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

Education Requirements:

Preferred: 4 Year Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field Engineering fields desired.

Years of Experience:

• A minimum of five years of relevant hands-on solution architecture/design experience in data application infrastructure or security domains required.
• A minimum of one year of relevant hands-on Solution architecture exposure to building applications on AWS required.
• A minimum of five years of large-scale software development or application engineering with some coding experience in two or more of the following languages: Java JavaScript C/C C# Python required.

What We Offer:

At NGL we provide a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes competitive base pay and benefits designed to offer solutions to help meet your unique life needs.

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 $1500 (Family) or $1000 (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!

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NGL is committed to creating a diverse environment and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race color creed religion national origin ancestry citizenship status age disability sex or gender (including pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status) sexual orientation marital status military service and veteran status physical or mental disability protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local laws.

NGL is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the recruitment process. To request an accommodation please contact.

Required Experience:

Senior IC