Remote Principal Enterprise Architect: Cloud & Strategy

CSAA; Virginia (IL); Remote; USD 187,000 - 249,000; Full time

Job summary

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead cloud-native architecture initiatives and drive enterprise technology vision remotely across the United States. The role focuses on designing scalable, multi-tier solutions, APIs, messaging systems, and secure architectures in collaboration with engineering, product, and business leaders.

You will contribute to cloud migration strategies, partner with stakeholders, and create roadmaps aligning capabilities with business

Qualifications

• 15+ years experience with building scalable, multi-tier distributed cloud-native application architectures.
• Experience designing APIs, integrations with external systems including 3rd parties. Experience with one of the 3 cloud providers - AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience designing systems that has messaging characteristics. Experience designing systems that take advantage of both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Good understanding of front-end UI frameworks like ReactJS. Mobile app development is a strong plus.
• Experience with designing secure systems using cyber security best practices.
• Bachelor's degree in related area (Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field) or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 15+ years Systems development and business experience designing solutions for multiple types of systems, client users and/or units across an organization.
• 5+ years Technical experience in a specific domain for design, development and deployments.
• Experience in a significant business domain such as CRM, Marketing, Insurance/Claims or Financial systems
• Good written and verbal communication skills to help interrface with other teams.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating designs and building solutions across the enterprise, with a focus on evolving our technical capabilities in support of delivering business capabilities.
• Leads and provides direction to Application Integration, Data, and Platform architecture vision for the enterprise.
• Works on the most complex projects and contributes to the overall strategic vision of the organization
• Integrates a broad range of ideas regarding technical and solution architecture, while developing strategies for migration toward the cloud architectural vision.
• Partners with business leaders to provide expert technical advice and influence strategic decision making
• Assess industry trends (business and technology) and appropriately position their subject areas.
• Provides thought leadership, create strategies and make recommendations on a wide variety of complex issues having a significant and strategic impact on processes and the business.
• Creates, guides, and partners with other architects in creating and maintaining roadmaps that connect business strategies to capabilities and provide a milestone-view of the cadence needed to move from current state to future state.
• Delivers a clear, pragmatic, approach with applicability to meet immediate business needs
• Demonstrates a strong ability to learn new information and systems quickly, works successfully in a highly matrixed organization
• Effectively manage priorities, deliverables and timelines with little need for escalation
• Demonstrates a strong bias for architecture principles balanced with tactical schedules, cost, and risks
• Leverage the appropriate mix of in-house and outsourced resources to protect intellectual property.

Skills

Cloud architecture

API design

ReactJS

Security design

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead cloud-native architecture initiatives and drive enterprise technology vision remotely across the United States. The role focuses on designing scalable, multi-tier solutions, APIs, messaging systems, and secure architectures in collaboration with engineering, product, and business leaders.

You will contribute to cloud migration strategies, partner with stakeholders, and create roadmaps aligning capabilities with business