Senior Enterprise Architect - AI-Driven Solutions

Guardian Life; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Life is seeking a Principal Solution Architect to define, scale, and govern enterprise‑wide architecture across platforms, domains, and delivery teams. You will shape how solutions are designed, integrated, secured, and operated, partnering with business and technology stakeholders to deliver scalable outcomes.

In this role, you will lead architecture strategy and standards, collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Engineering, Product, Cybersecurity, and Platform teams, and drive

Qualifications

• Designs enterprise architectures across platforms and domains.
• Defines standards, guardrails and reusable patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise and business solution architecture strategy, standards, guardrails, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and cross‑team design consistency across platforms and domains.
• Lead complex design decisions across value streams and business units, translating business and technology strategy into actionable architecture direction, solution designs, and delivery choices.
• Drive early architecture engagement to identify cross‑platform dependencies, systemic risks, scalability constraints, build‑versus‑buy implications, integration patterns, and non‑standard enterprise exceptions.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Risk, Compliance, platform, product, and engineering teams to embed enterprise standards, governance, security, resiliency, performance, and maintainability into solution design.
• Influence Solution Architects, Portfolio Architecture leaders, Value Stream leaders, Product Managers, Product Owners, and Tech Leads to align roadmaps, MVP scope, technical trade‑offs, and BU‑specific architecture decisions.
• Mentor architects and senior engineers, represent solution architecture in enterprise forums and architecture review boards, and elevate architectural maturity across the organization.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Stakeholder collaboration

Cloud security

Job description

Guardian Life is seeking a Principal Solution Architect to define, scale, and govern enterprise‑wide architecture across platforms, domains, and delivery teams. You will shape how solutions are designed, integrated, secured, and operated, partnering with business and technology stakeholders to deliver scalable outcomes.

In this role, you will lead architecture strategy and standards, collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Engineering, Product, Cybersecurity, and Platform teams, and drive