Solution Architect (Cloud)
Western & Southern Financial Group2 years ago
Cincinnati, OH, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement end-to-end software solutions throughout all phases of the software development lifecycle.
- Define architectural principles, technology standards, governance processes, transition plans, road maps, and reusable reference architectures.
- Translate business and technical requirements into technical design direction and architectural models.
- Create and maintain context, conceptual, logical, physical, class, and sequence diagrams and other architecture artifacts.
- Conduct proof of concepts, product evaluations, vendor and tool selection, and buy-or-build analyses.
- Participate in code reviews and ensure solutions comply with architectural principles, standards, and reference architectures.
- Research industry trends and provide technology and methodology recommendations to stakeholders.
- Provide architectural consultation, mentoring, and guidance to project teams, solution architects, and developers.
- Collaborate with executives, management, enterprise architects, project stakeholders, vendors, and developers across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- Professional experience in solution architecture.
- Extensive experience developing architectural models, with depth in business, information, or application/technical architecture and breadth across architecture disciplines.
- Experience with product evaluation and selection, vendor selection, and buy-or-build decisions.
- Command of software design principles and patterns.
- Strong understanding of messaging, MOM, SOA, ESB, and EAI principles and patterns.
- Working knowledge of Web Services, SOAP, REST, XML, JSON, and interface design.
- Expertise across a broad range of products, technologies, platforms, patterns, frameworks, and methodologies.
- Knowledge of technical design documentation methods and technologies, including UML and object modeling.
- Strong communication, presentation, influencing, reasoning, leadership, interpersonal, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience with multiple programming languages such as C#, Java, .NET, and C++ is a plus.
- Experience with IBM Content Management Systems such as FileNet P8 is a plus.
- Familiarity with insurance and financial systems is desirable.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Visio, PowerPoint, and UML modeling tools.
Benefits
- Office-based work setting with extended hours during peak workloads or special projects or events.
- No travel 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.