Lead Solutions Architect (Remote)

Inspira Financial; Oak Brook (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401K savings plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Inspira Financial, based in Oak Brook, IL, seeks a Lead Solution Architect to shape architecture strategy, guide cross-portfolio technology decisions, and align business objectives with technology investments.

You will mentor architects, drive governance and programming patterns across teams, and help modernize platforms with secure, cloud-native solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field.
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, solution/enterprise architecture, or related roles.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native design, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Experience establishing architecture governance, standards, and reusable patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture strategy, roadmaps, and target-state architectures.
• Provide architectural leadership across multiple initiatives and teams.
• Lead governance activities and drive security, resiliency, and observability practices.
• Mentor architects and engineers, influencing senior stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture

Azure

Security

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Azure

APIs

Job description

Join Us!
Take the next step in your journey at Inspira Financial. Guided by our mission to enable better health and greater wealth, we help businesses and individuals thrive today, tomorrow, and into retirement by strengthening and simplifying the health and wealth journey.

Join Us!
Take the next step in your journey at Inspira Financial. Guided by our mission to enable better health and greater wealth, we help businesses and individuals thrive today, tomorrow, and into retirement by strengthening and simplifying the health and wealth journey.
Our values shape how we show up every day. We Lead with Heart by acting with compassion, empathy, and doing what's right; Cultivate Trust through integrity, transparency, and accountability; Aim Higher by never settling for what's expected and continually raising the standard; and Win Together by collaborating inclusively to achieve the best outcomes.
Join us on our journey as we work together to take on the complex and the everyday--turning collective effort into life‑changing impact that enriches lives and helps build a better future. Learn more at inspirafinancial.com.
We believe in finding the best talent! While some roles are based at one of our office locations, remote roles can sit in any of the following states: AL, AZ, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, NC, NE, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA and WV. Remote status and role locations are subject to change. Relocation is not provided.

Employees within a 90-minute radius of our Oak Brook, IL headquarters are required to adhere to the company in-office work guidelines of 4 days per month minimum from 10 am to 2 pm (1 of the 4 days must be a Monday or Friday). This requirement does not apply to support specialist positions. Dont meet every single requirement? That's okay. At Inspira Financial, we know growth comes from people who are willing to learn, challenge themselves, and aim higher. We value individuals who lead with heart, cultivate trust, and collaborate to win together. If you're energized by meaningful work, continuous development, and being part of a team that turns collective effort into real impact, Inspira Financial could be the right next step in your journey. We look forward to receiving your application.

Inspira Financial provides health, wealth, retirement, and benefits solutions that strengthen and simplify the health and wealth journey. With more than 7 million clients, representing over $62 billion in assets, Inspira works with thousands of employers, plan sponsors, recordkeepers, TPAs, and other institutional partners -- helping the people they care about plan, save, and invest for a brighter future. Inspira relentlessly pursues better outcomes for all with our automatic rollover services, health savings accounts, emergency savings funds, custody services, and more. Learn more at inspirafinancial.com.

We have been recognized for our remarkable growth on lists such as Crain's Fast 50 and Inc. 5000, and for our outstanding workplace culture and benefits with Built In's 2025 Best Places to Work and Gallagher's 2022 Best-In-Class Employer awards.

Job Summary & Responsibilities

The Lead Solution Architect serves as a senior technical leader responsible for shaping architecture strategy, guiding cross-portfolio technology decisions, and ensuring alignment between business objectives and technology investments. This role provides architectural leadership across multiple product teams, programs, and business capabilities while establishing standards, reusable patterns, and long-term roadmaps that enable scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

The Lead Solution Architect operates as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders, influences enterprise technology direction, mentors architects and technical leaders, and helps drive architecture consistency, governance, and engineering excellence across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Strategy & Leadership

• Define and evolve architecture roadmaps, target-state architectures, and strategic technology direction for one or more business domains.
• Translate business strategy into practical technology strategies, architectural capabilities, and implementation roadmaps.
• Provide architectural leadership across multiple concurrent initiatives, ensuring solutions align with enterprise objectives and architectural principles.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and vendor capabilities to identify opportunities and risks.

Enterprise & Portfolio Architecture

• Guide architecture decisions that span products, platforms, integrations, data domains, and shared services.
• Resolve architectural conflicts, competing priorities, and cross-team design tradeoffs.
• Ensure solutions support long-term business goals while balancing cost, risk, complexity, and delivery objectives.
• Lead architectural planning for modernization, platform evolution, technical debt reduction, and operational resiliency.

Governance & Standards

• Establish and maintain architecture standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and decision frameworks.
• Lead architecture reviews and governance activities for strategic initiatives and high-impact technology decisions.
• Promote consistency, reusability, supportability, and security across the technology landscape.
• Drive use of architecture decision records (ADRs), standards, and documentation practices.

Risk Management & Operational Excellence

• Identify and proactively address architectural risks, dependencies, constraints, and systemic weaknesses.
• Ensure solutions appropriately address security, compliance, privacy, resiliency, recoverability, scalability, and operational support requirements.
• Partner with security, infrastructure, operations, and engineering teams to ensure alignment with enterprise controls and operational standards.
• Contribute to disaster recovery, business continuity, and platform resiliency planning.

Organizational Leadership

• Mentor Solution Architects, technical leads, and engineering teams on architecture practices and decision-making.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.
• Lead architecture communities of practice and contribute to architecture capability development across the organization.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders.

Business & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with product, engineering, security, infrastructure, data, and business stakeholders to align technology investments with business priorities.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Influence strategic decisions through analysis of benefits, risks, constraints, and tradeoffs.
• Support portfolio planning, investment decisions, and long-range technology strategy discussions.

Additional Interview Requirements: As part of the evaluation process, candidates who progress beyond the initial screening will be required to complete a formal technical assessment to validate coding proficiency and technical competency.

Preferred Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, or related technical leadership roles
• Demonstrated success leading architecture across large-scale, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple systems, teams, and business domains
• Deep understanding of application architecture, integration patterns, APIs, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, data architecture concepts, and cloud-native design principles
• Experience establishing architecture governance processes, standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns
• Experience designing and governing solutions on modern cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, resiliency, observability, and operational readiness practices
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and influence skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry
• Experience influencing enterprise technology strategy and multi-year roadmaps
• Experience mentoring architects and leading architecture communities of practice
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks, architecture repositories, and capability-based planning approaches
• Relevant cloud, architecture, security, or integration certifications

Pay Range

$150,000-$175,000 per year

Pay Range

$150,000-$175,000 per year

Compensation & Benefits

The compensation for this position will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive and bonus opportunities.

Inspira provides industry-leading benefits including, but not limited to: healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, paid time off, parental leave and an employee assistance program.