Enterprise Solutions Architect — Secure & Scalable Systems

Sompo; Lubbock (TX); On-site; USD 165,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Two medical plans

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Sompo is seeking a Solutions Architect to join our IT team. This role designs end-to-end technology solutions that align business objectives with architecture standards, security requirements, and operational needs.

The Architect provides governance across the delivery lifecycle, collaborating with business, engineering, security, and vendor teams to deliver scalable, resilient solutions that meet enterprise standards.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end technology solutions across insurance, reinsurance and corporate business applications, integrations, data, infrastructure, and security domains.
• Translate business goals, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements into solution architectures and design artifacts.
• Develop high-level and detailed solution designs that clearly define system components, interfaces, dependencies, and operational considerations.
• Ensure that solution designs address scalability, resilience, performance, maintainability, and supportability.
• Define solution options, evaluate trade-offs, and recommend preferred approaches based on business value, technical fit, cost, and risk.
• Provide project approach to project team to develop project plans and schedules. Support project planning process
• Ensure alignment between solution architecture and enterprise architecture standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, project managers, engineers, and vendors to understand objectives and shape appropriate solution approaches.
• Facilitate architecture and design discussions across multiple teams to achieve alignment on scope, approach, and implementation decisions.
• Support project initiation and planning by providing architectural input into estimates, dependencies, risks, and delivery considerations.
• Provide architectural leadership throughout the project lifecycle from ideation through implementation and transition to support.
• Work closely with development, infrastructure, security, QA, and operations teams to ensure designs are understood and executed effectively.
• Review solution implementation to confirm adherence to approved architecture and design principles.
• Participate in architecture governance processes, including design reviews, approvals, and technical assurance activities.
• Ensure solutions comply with security, regulatory, risk, and data governance requirements.
• Identify architectural risks, issues, and dependencies and recommend mitigation plans.
• Promote reuse of existing platforms, services, and patterns where appropriate to reduce complexity and improve consistency.
• Contribute to architecture principles, standards, reference models, and best practices.
• Produce and maintain architecture documentation, including solution diagrams, design decisions, interface specifications, and transition considerations.
• Present solution designs and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences, including governance forums and senior stakeholders.
• Document assumptions, constraints, and key decisions to support transparency and traceability throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Job description

Sompo is seeking a Solutions Architect to join our IT team. This role designs end-to-end technology solutions that align business objectives with architecture standards, security requirements, and operational needs.

The Architect provides governance across the delivery lifecycle, collaborating with business, engineering, security, and vendor teams to deliver scalable, resilient solutions that meet enterprise standards.