Hybrid Solution Architect — Enterprise-Scale Tech & AI

Guardian Life; Bethlehem (Northampton County); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Life is seeking a Solution Architect to own and shape product-level and value-stream level architectures. This hands-on role partners with Tech Leads, Product Owners, and delivery teams to translate business needs into secure, scalable technology solutions.

You will operate within a federated Enterprise Architecture model, designing architectures across applications, data, and integrations, while mentoring engineers and driving delivery efficiency.

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Skills

Enterprise-scale architecture

Cloud platforms

APIs

Data integration

Agile delivery

Hybrid architectures

Insurance domain experience

GenAI frameworks

Communication skills

Technical documentation

Job description

Guardian Life is seeking a Solution Architect to own and shape product-level and value-stream level architectures. This hands-on role partners with Tech Leads, Product Owners, and delivery teams to translate business needs into secure, scalable technology solutions.

You will operate within a federated Enterprise Architecture model, designing architectures across applications, data, and integrations, while mentoring engineers and driving delivery efficiency.