IT Senior Solutions Architect

Position Summary

With limited supervision, translates near-term and long-term business needs of moderate to high complexity into (technical) initiative solution options across multiple portfolios. 

Provides enterprise-level context to the architecture team to enable team members to focus, mature domains, and create future-state architectures.  

Provides leadership visibility on complex initiatives by facilitating discussions, leading conceptual and high level design sessions, capturing the results in artifacts, and ensuring the architectural design is realized through delivery for multiple enterprise stakeholders.  

This opportunity is for a IT Sr Solution Architect with experience in the property casualty insurance industry claims technology function.  This person will serve on ERIE's Claims Management Program leadership team, guiding, directing and facilitating the creation of options and high level designs to direct agile teams in creating industry leading Claims Service capabilities.  In this role, you will translate business needs to initiative solution options and context for future state planning.  You will interact with ERIE leadership to provide visibility on initiative progress to validate that designs are realized through delivery.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Bachelors' degree in IT, MIS, Business or related field plus 5 years with related experience and 3 years in architecture
• Architecture experience equal to two domains or portfolios
• AWS Solution Architect Professional Certification
• AWS/Cloud Experience
• Guidewire Claims Platform experience or equivalent

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Experience operating as a solution architect with Agile teams
• Property and Casualty Claims technology and solution development experience
• AWS Cloud experience

Duties and Responsibilities

• Serves as the single point of accountability for architecture function to portfolio owner customers and technology leadership.
• Provides architectural guidance on initiatives of moderate to high complexity across multiple enterprise portfolios, while managing multiple customers with differing priorities on the organization’s most strategic initiatives.
• Provides full-stack architectural options that enable business objectives while ensuring long-term technology goals for all aspects of a solution.
• Collaborates with team members for technical validation during design and planning phases.
• Informs aspects of portfolio maturity regarding technology and ability to achieve target technology alignment, while facilitating a minimum viable architecture.
• Monitors large-scale project execution and considers and interprets architectural tradeoffs occurring during delivery. Escalates for appropriate context sharing and decision making, as necessary.
• Proactively enables portfolio owners to see technical debt clearly, provides appropriate context to inform plans to achieve elimination of technical debt in a comprehensive plan across multiple portfolios, delivery teams, programs, or projects.
• Serves as a mentor for other members of the team, builds an environment for analysts, engineers, architects, and other technology leaders to grow and have high impact.
• Directs and drives closure on investment decisions within the enterprise while also identifying cross-portfolio impacts on significant delivery initiatives.
• Serves as a subject matter expert for multiple portfolios, providing actionable recommendations via consultation services, adapted to stakeholder context, to technology leadership and organizational stakeholders.
• Collaborates with architects, portfolio owners, and other job families to achieve an enterprise view; provides project and program level views to project and program teams in context of enterprise strategies and directions with light supervision.
• Supports business agility through agile engagement across multiple delivery operations.
• Interprets business needs, assesses solution choices, applies technology, and provides project guidance within a long-term enterprise lens.

The first five duties listed are the functions identified as essential to the job. Essential functions are those job duties that must be performed in order for the job to be accomplished.

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instruction and to perform any other duties as requested by their supervisor, or as become clear.
 

Capabilities

Qualifications

Minimum Educational and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, Business, or related field, plus five years' related experience with at least three years specific to architecture; or 
• Associate's degree in a technical field, plus seven years' related experience with at least three years specific to architecture; or 
• High School Diploma plus nine years' related experience with at least three years specific to architecture, required.

Additional Requirements

• Skill Breadth: 2 or more domains/portfolios required.

Designations and/or Licenses

• AWS Solutions Architect – Professional Certification required.

Physical Requirements