Senior Solution Architect (Business Automation and Workflow)
Western & Southern Financial Group2 years ago
Cincinnati, OH, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Conceptualize, design, and implement end-to-end solutions with project teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Create and maintain architectural artifacts including context, conceptual, logical, physical, class, and sequence diagrams.
- Define or assist with architectural principles, technology standards, guidelines, governance structures, and reusable reference architectures.
- Evaluate current-state and target-state architecture, develop transition plans and road maps, and identify architectural efficiencies.
- Conduct proof of concepts, participate in code reviews, and ensure delivered solutions align with approved principles and business needs.
- Lead or participate in enterprise vendor, technology, and tool selection, including buy-or-build evaluations.
- Research industry trends and provide technology and methodology recommendations to stakeholders.
- Provide architectural consultation, mentoring, support, and guidance to project teams, solution architects, and developers.
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 the disciplines, is required.
- Experience with product evaluations, vendor selection, and buy-or-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.
- 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, and visualization tools is required.
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.