Senior Solution Architect (Business Automation and Worklflow)
Western & Southern Financial Group2 years ago
Cincinnati, OH, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design and architect end-to-end software solutions across all phases of the software development lifecycle.
- Translate business and technical requirements into technical design direction and architectural artifacts.
- Define and maintain architectural principles, technology standards, governance processes, and reusable reference architectures.
- Evaluate current-state and target-state architectures and create transition plans and architectural roadmaps.
- Establish and participate in architecture and technology governance processes.
- Complete proof of concepts, participate in code reviews, and ensure solutions align with agreed architectural principles and business needs.
- Lead or participate in enterprise vendor, technology, and tool selection activities.
- Provide architectural consultation, support, mentoring, and guidance to project teams, solution architects, and developers.
- Research industry trends and best practices and recommend technologies and methods to 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 architecture, information architecture, or application/technical architecture and breadth across all disciplines, is required.
- Experience with product evaluation and selection, including buy-versus-build decisions, is required.
- 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 with a broad range of products, technologies, platforms, patterns, frameworks, and methodologies.
- Knowledge of technical design documentation methodologies and technologies, including Visio, 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 preferred.
- Experience with IBM Content Management Systems such as FileNet P8 is preferred.
- Familiarity with visualization tools such as Microsoft Visio and PowerPoint and with UML modeling tools.
Benefits
- Office-based work setting with extended hours during peak workloads or special projects or 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.