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Hybrid - In office 3 days per week
Stamford
Bethlehem
New York
Holmdel
Full time
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Solution Architect – Corporate Functions Talent & Culture; Law
Position Overview:
The Solution Architect is responsible for owning and shaping technical solutions at the value-stream and product level, ensuring architectural alignment, scalability, and adherence to Guardian standards. This role is hands‑on and execution‑oriented, partnering closely with Tech Leads, Product Owners, and delivery teams to translate business needs into sound, secure, and resilient technology solutions.
This role operates within a federated Enterprise Architecture (EA) model, partnering closely with business technology and platform teams to shape solutions in real time while improving accountability, speed, and delivery alignment. The architect remains connected to the central EA core through enterprise standards, governance, communities of practice, and cross‑functional collaboration to ensure consistent, risk‑aware technology decisions across domains.
The Solution Architect focuses on solution design, delivery enablement, and technical problem solving, building solutions while collaborating with Business stakeholders, Enterprise Architecture and platform teams to align with broader enterprise patterns.
Key Responsibilities:
Owns product/team-level solution design and delivery architecture
Works with Principal Solution Architect for patterns/guardrails; Head of Portfolio Architecture for BU priorities; Principal Enterprise Architect only when enterprise exceptions or cross-domain conflicts arise
Own product- and team-level technical architecture decisions within a value stream.
Design and document solution architectures, including application, integration, data, and infrastructure components.
Partner with Product Owners and Tech Leads to align roadmaps, MVP scope, and technical trade-offs
Ensure solutions follow Guardian architecture standards, security requirements, and design patterns
Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and platform teams to reuse enterprise capabilities where appropriate
Identify, manage, and help resolve technical dependencies and impediments impacting delivery
Provide hands‑on guidance to teams on design quality, code structure, and technical approaches
Lead proof‑of‑concepts for new business capabilities, Influencing Technology Strategy, Solution Design, Architecture Standards
Mentor engineers on architecture principles, design decisions, and problem‑solving techniques
Continuously look for opportunities to simplify designs, reduce technical debt, and improve delivery efficiency
Where applicable, the role will be accountable to build solutions that scale and align to business and technology requirements
Available for production incidents with major impact to business operations
You Have:
Strong experience designing and delivering enterprise‑scale technology solutions
Working knowledge of cloud platforms, APIs, data integration, and modern application architectures
Experience collaborating within Agile / product‑based delivery models
Experience in designing hybrid architectures where applications reside both on‑premise and public cloud including understanding of cloud provider services
Proven track record of architecting solutions that demand operating large scale business critical systems in Insurance domain
Good understanding of GenAI frameworks, tools and best practices
Ability to balance speed, quality, risk, and long‑term sustainability in technical decisions
Strong communication skills to translate technical concepts for business and delivery stakeholders
Experience producing product‑level and team‑level technical design documentation
Location:
Three days a week at a Guardian location in Stamford, CT, Holmdel, NJ, New York, NY or Bethlehem, PA.
Salary Range:
$118,980.00 - $195,465.00
The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the
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