Solution Architect - Applications

• Enterprise Technology Group has a Solution Architect - Applications opportunity*

What you will do:

• Responsible for cohesive, compliant and scalable system architecture and integration of enterprise business systems.

• Possessing a mastery of solution architecture, software design, and industry best practice, this role is responsible for all aspects of system design and architecture.

• Establishes the architecture runway ahead of agile teams, ensuring enabling capabilities are identified and planned to maximize the sustained velocity of agile teams.

• Effectively communicates design artifacts and roadmaps to ensure technical direction is clear and actionable while holding to lean principles and evolutionary design.

• Ensures architectural governance and oversight as a member of the Architecture Review Board.

• Researches, identifies, vets, and recommends third party technology products and services for projects based on risk, security and efficacy towards the desired business outcome in partnership with key stakeholders.

• The position requires staying current on industry trends, technological advancements, and best practices to maximize opportunities and minimize threats to our business.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or relevant discipline with 12+ years of total IT experience OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or relevant discipline with 10+ years of total IT experience.

• 6+ years performing solution design & system integration.

• Experience guiding multiple agile development teams and establishing an architecture runway ahead of development.

• Strong background ground in software engineering.

• A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business, corporate strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and architectural governance.

• Deep experience working with multiple programming languages in accordance with modern full-stack development such as Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, bash scripts, Groovy are preferred.

• Mastery of Domain Driven Design and microservice architecture, able to architect and design technology solutions using REST API design, Event-driven architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, C4 Modeling, Microservices, containerized workloads (i.e. Docker), relational database design, No-SQL database, caching strategies and frameworks.

• Able to perform design and development for proof of concepts and platform enablement using high-level programming languages, design patterns, and best practices for full stack development using ReactJS (preferred), AngularJS, Java (preferred), .NET or similar language full stack programming.

• Skilled in cloud-native architecture and design with AWS (preferred), or similar experience in Azur or GCP will be considered.

• Strong knowledge of event driven architecture using AWS SQS/SNS or Kafka or similar messaging and topic-based platforms.

• Strong experience architecting as part of Agile software development methodologies, such as the Scaled Agile Framework (preferred), Scrum, XP, or Kanban.

• Ability to provide guidance or direction to other team members.

• Ability to provide reasonable estimates and work task definition.

• Ability to communicate effectively with business and technical staff.

Nice to have:

• MS degree in Computer Science or relevant discipline.

• Insurance Industry knowledge.

About Us:

Health. Life. Retirement. The Physicians Mutual family empowers people from all walks of life to enjoy the financial security they deserve. That's what Insurance for all of us is about.

The Physicians Mutual family includes Physicians Mutual Insurance Company and Physicians Life Insurance Company. Physicians Mutual Insurance Company offers reliable dental and supplemental health insurance (and now, pet insurance!). Physicians Life Insurance Company provides important Medicare Supplement and life insurance coverage. The company additionally offers coverage for funeral pre-planning to help meet the growing needs of funeral home owners and the families they serve.

Since our start in 1902, our dedication to delivering on our promise has helped make us one of the nation's leading health and life insurance providers. In fact, we are rated in the top 1% of insurance companies. We consistently maintain some of the highest financial strength ratings in the nation from independent insurance analysts, including A.M. Best Company and Weiss Ratings, ensuring we'll be there for our policyowners and our employees far into the future.

But the achievement we're most proud of? We have a 95% customer approval rating - a true sign of a company dedicated to embodying its vision.