Sr. Enterprise Architect
Northwestern MutualResponsibilities
- Lead development of enterprise architecture designs and patterns.
- Provide architectural alignment across design, coding, testing, deployment, and service management efforts.
- Identify technologies and opportunities that advance the digital organization.
- Align technology decisions across the enterprise with roadmaps and architectural development models.
- Lead technical initiatives and organizational change across the enterprise.
- Design scalable, highly available, reliable cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
- Guide application rationalization, modernization, cloud migration, and vendor product transitions.
- Lead cross-functional teams through influence, collaboration, and partnership.
- Mentor and coach less experienced professionals.
- Engage and influence senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- 6-8 years of Enterprise Architecture experience.
- Bachelor’s degree desired.
- Deep understanding of more than one public cloud platform, including AWS, Azure, or Google.
- Experience delivering multi-data-center strategies spanning cloud and on-premise compute.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Packer, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
- Understanding of infrastructure automation, triggered events, secure automation practices, cloud connectivity, storage security, key management, and networking.
- Experience architecting, designing, and building scalable, performant, highly available cloud infrastructure.
- Experience selecting, implementing, and transitioning vendor products to production and support.
- Experience with full-lifecycle system deployment and Enterprise Architecture practices.
- Ability to lead diverse teams, solve technical and business problems, communicate with senior stakeholders, and work through ambiguity.
- Experience working in Lean-Agile and DevOps environments.
- Ability to remain technology-agnostic and make enterprise-oriented technical decisions.
Benefits
- Regular full-time employment.
- Exempt position.
- Opportunity to influence Northwestern Mutual’s digital transformation roadmap and work within its Digital Platform and Enterprise Architecture organization.
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About Northwestern Mutual
At Northwestern Mutual, our financial advisors are ready to meet you where you are and stay with you long-term. Get financial clarity with a people-first plan designed to uncover new opportunities and potential blind spots. The right time to plan is right now. With $265.0 billion in assets under management, $28.1 billion in revenues, and over $1.8 trillion in life insurance protection in force, we've served more than 4.5 million people through our life, disability income, and long-term care insurance, annuities, brokerage, advisory services, trust services, and discretionary portfolio management solutions. Our wealth management company and investment services manage over $125 billion in client assets. We're proud to support our growing field force of financial advisors across the country, as well as our corporate office employees in Milwaukee and New York. As we continue to grow, we believe diversity makes us stronger in shaping the future of financial security. Explore career opportunities with us: https://jobs.northwesternmutual.com/. Financial representatives and interns are independent contractors, not Northwestern Mutual employees. https://www.northwesternmutual.com/social-media-guidelines