Senior Solution Architect (Cloud)
Western & Southern Financial Group2 years ago
Cincinnati, OH, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Conceptualize, design, and implement end-to-end solutions with project teams across the software development lifecycle.
- Create and maintain architectural artifacts including context, conceptual, logical, physical, class, and sequence diagrams.
- Define and support architectural principles, guidelines, technology standards, governance structures, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
- Evaluate current and future-state architectures, transition plans, technologies, products, vendors, and build-versus-buy options.
- Conduct proofs of concept, participate in code reviews, and ensure implementations align with approved architectural principles and business needs.
- Provide architectural consultation, mentoring, support, and guidance to project teams, solution architects, and developers.
- Research industry trends and communicate technology and methodology recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience is required.
- Professional solution architecture experience is required.
- Extensive experience developing architectural models with depth in business, information, or application/technical architecture and breadth across all disciplines is required.
- Experience with product evaluations, vendor and technology selection, and buy-versus-build decisions is required.
- Experience with multiple programming languages such as C#, Java, .NET, and C++ is preferred.
- Experience with IBM Content Management Systems such as FileNet P8 is preferred.
- Strong communication, presentation, influencing, reasoning, leadership, interpersonal, and cross-functional collaboration skills are required.
- Strong understanding of messaging, MOM, SOA, ESB, and EAI principles and patterns is required.
- Working knowledge of Web Services, SOAP, REST, XML, JSON, and interface design is required.
- Knowledge of technical design documentation, UML, object modeling, Microsoft Visio, PowerPoint, and UML modeling tools is required or preferred.
Benefits
- Office-based work setting with extended hours during peak workloads or special projects/events.
- No travel is required.
About Western & Southern Financial Group
Western & Southern Financial Group is a privately held financial services parent company offering life insurance, annuities, investment management, and retirement products to individuals and institutions. Founded in 1888 and headquartered in Cincinnati, it operates through subsidiaries including Gerber Life, Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Touchstone Advisors/Securities, and Eagle Realty Group. The company distributes products via agents, broker-dealers, and workplace channels across U.S. markets.