Senior Solution Architect - Cloud, Data & Enterprise

Munich Re; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 142,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance coverage

Employee wellness program

Life and disability insurance

401k match

Retirement savings plan

Paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Munich Re US seeks a Senior Solution Architect to drive modernized, scalable, end-to-end solutions across business areas. You will align architecture with business outcomes, lead cross-team design efforts, and ensure security and regulatory compliance within P&C contexts.

You will design and communicate architecture across applications, data, integrations, cloud platforms, and infrastructure, guiding delivery teams toward architectural intent and future-state direction.

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Engineering, IT, or similar.
• 10+ years delivering IT solutions with senior architecture experience.
• Strong experience in the P&C insurance industry and understanding of regulatory considerations.
• Strong experience designing Azure cloud applications and platform solutions.
• Experience creating conceptual and high-level design documents and architecture artifacts.
• Experience building architecture roadmaps and defining target-state and transition-state architecture.
• Proven experience supporting transformation, modernization, and large-scale change.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technology implementation specifications.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for non-technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of IT architecture principles, enterprise frameworks, and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Leads collaboration with business stakeholders to understand requirements and align solutions with business goals.
• Leads the development of architectures for complex systems, ensuring IT target architecture alignment.
• Develops target designs, roadmaps, and solution direction to support modernization initiatives.
• Establishes architecture principles, policies, standards, and design patterns to promote consistency and sustainability.
• Communicates complex architecture objectives to stakeholders and oversees design implementation.
• Ensures solutions meet functional, non-functional, security, and regulatory requirements in P&C insurance.
• Designs overall solution architecture including applications, data, integrations, cloud platforms, and infrastructure.
• Reviews detailed designs with delivery teams to ensure alignment with architectural intent.
• Provides architecture leadership for Azure cloud app and platform design; evaluates AWS where appropriate.
• Contributes to designs involving Microsoft Dynamics 365 where relevant.
• Supports modernization of legacy systems toward interoperability patterns (FHIR, JSON-LD, GraphQL, Async APIs).

Skills

Solution architecture

P&C insurance domain

Azure cloud apps

Architecture artifacts

Roadmaps & target-state

Transformation & modernization

Business requirements to tech

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Mentor junior architects

Education

University degree in Computer Engineering or IT

Tools

Azure

AWS

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Job description

Munich Re US seeks a Senior Solution Architect to drive modernized, scalable, end-to-end solutions across business areas. You will align architecture with business outcomes, lead cross-team design efforts, and ensure security and regulatory compliance within P&C contexts.

You will design and communicate architecture across applications, data, integrations, cloud platforms, and infrastructure, guiding delivery teams toward architectural intent and future-state direction.