RPW Solution Architect
HUB International3 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end technical solutions and detailed architectures for retirement and private wealth initiatives.
- Design and implement cross-system business process automation and integrations using API-based, event-driven, batch/ETL, message-queue, and file-based approaches.
- Create integration diagrams, data flow maps, sequence diagrams, interface specifications, and other solution design artifacts.
- Collaborate with architects, product owners, delivery teams, business SMEs, executives, and implementation partners to evaluate tradeoffs and refine designs.
- Evaluate cloud services, vendor tools, and platforms for fit, risks, constraints, and design implications.
- Provide hands-on technical guidance during build and test phases and resolve design issues.
- Support technology strategy, multi-year IT roadmaps, feasibility assessments, effort estimates, and prioritization discussions.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, consolidate, modernize, and eliminate redundant or brittle integration points.
Requirements
- Minimum 8 years of technical experience in solution architecture, integration design, or technical delivery, including hands-on design and implementation.
- Hands-on experience with one or more wealth or retirement industry platforms such as Orion, Broadridge/FI 360, Evestnet, trading platforms, custodial platforms, or RIA-related tools is strongly preferred.
- Experience and/or certifications with a major cloud platform such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- A bachelor's degree is required.
- Relevant certifications such as TOGAF or a cloud solutions architect credential are nice-to-have.
- Ability to work with APIs, data schemas, system logs, and integration configurations while communicating designs to nontechnical stakeholders.
- Experience building relationships with business SMEs and leaders and translating business strategy into technical designs.
- Confidence presenting technical recommendations, accepting critical feedback, and refining designs.
- Experience in fast-paced agile delivery environments supporting multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with architects, product owners, delivery teams, and implementation partners.
- Working knowledge of retirement and wealth management operations, advisor workflows, and industry data standards.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model based in Chicago.
- Up to 25% required travel.
- Comprehensive benefits may include health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; FSA; HSA; 401(k); vacation, sick, and personal time off; and eligible bonuses, equity, and commissions for some positions.
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About HUB International
HUB International is a global insurance brokerage that sells commercial and personal insurance, risk management, employee benefits, retirement, and wealth advisory services to businesses and individuals. It operates through offices across North America and generates revenue primarily from brokerage commissions and fees. Headquartered in Chicago, it is privately held and backed by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, with origins dating to the late 1990s through the merger of regional brokerages.