Senior Solution Architect (Data/Integration)

Wittij Consulting; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 125,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Company-funded health reimbursement (Q

Job summary

Wittij Consulting seeks an experienced solution architect to lead end-to-end designs across enterprise architecture, integration, data patterns, APIs, security, and non-functional requirements on large, complex programs. You’ll mentor a federated team of solution architects and provide oversight while owning the toughest designs yourself.

You’ll translate executive business goals into engineering plans, evaluate vendors, and ensure designs align with enterprise standards across cloud and on-prem

Qualifications

• Seasoned solution architect with extensive experience in large, complex organizations.
• Able to translate executive business views into engineering reality and defend with facts.
• Broad expertise across application, data, and integration architecture, with depth in data patterns.
• Experience across cloud and on-prem; able to evaluate vendors and platforms on the merits.
• Familiarity with financial services or regulated industries is a plus.
• Willing to ramp up quickly on new business capabilities and processes.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solutions including integration patterns and data flows.
• Lead solution design and review architectures for governance and strategy alignment.
• Provide oversight to a federated team of solution architects.
• Partner with business users to design solutions that fit operations.
• Bridge executive/business view and engineering reality with well-supported recommendations.

Skills

End-to-end design

Data flows

APIs

Security

Decision-making

Executive communication

Job description

Are you a multi-faceted architect ready for your next challenge? Smart, pragmatic, and someone who actually gets things done? Tired of being stuck in a corporate rut? Do you like flexing across domains, being the "go-to" for both business and tech, and mentoring others along the way?

Our mission is simple: help our clients get maximum value out of their technology investments. We assess enterprise architectures, design complex integrations, and provide architecture leadership for big, messy initiatives like mergers, modernizations, and cloud migrations. We don\'t do software development or run infrastructure. We\'re the trusted experts our clients lean on for the two questions that matter most:

• What should they do (enterprise architecture and planning), and
• How should they do it (solution architecture)?

Most of the time you\'re leading solution design on large, complex projects: architecting end-to-end solutions and working through integration patterns, data flows, modern data patterns, APIs, security, and the non-functional details that make or break a design. It\'s a hands-on seat AND a strategy-deck seat. You sit within an enterprise solution architecture group, so you also provide oversight to a federated team of solution architects and review their designs and documents for process and strategy compliance, keeping the work aligned without becoming a bottleneck. But the center of gravity is you in the thick of it, owning the toughest solution designs yourself and stepping in when a domain needs reinforcement, a decision is stuck, or a design needs a second set of expert eyes.

Requirements

What we\'re really after: You\'re a seasoned solution architect who has worked within large, complex organizations and is technically current enough to design real solutions, not just hand down principles. You adeptly navigate organization politics and facilitate fact-based desicisons.

• Personally designing end-to-end solutions: integration patterns, data flows, APIs, security, and the non-functional stuff that makes or breaks a design
• Establishing, but also carrying enterprise standards and strategies into the projects you work on, and keeping designs aligned with them, without needing to own or police the governance machinery.
• Ramping up quickly on new business capabilities and processes, quickly filling gaps in your knowledge so you can partnering with those business users and design solutions that fit how they actually operate.
• Real breadth across application, data, and integration architecture, with genuine depth in data and modern data patterns, comfortable working across cloud and on-prem environments, and the judgment to evaluate vendors and platforms on the merits
• Translating fluently between the executive/business view and engineering reality, and defending a recommendation with facts and trade-offs in a room with either audience
• Financial services or other regulated-industry experience is a strong plus

Bonus points

• Experience in Insurance and the complex finance processes/data behind acturial modeling and management/external financial reporting
• Building an cloud-based enterprise analytical data repository or single source of truth for finance: layered/medallion architecture, data lineage, reconciliation across upstream sources
• Modern cloud data platforms, AWS especially
• Data governance execution done right: source-to-target mapping, master/reference data, lineage, and data quality controls in a regulated environment
• A knack for partnering with finance and actuarial folks to build self-service capabilities they\'ll actually use instead of working around in Excel.
• Something with AI. Anything with AI. Useful AI, not "everything is better" or "the world is going to end" AI, but something in the middle

Non-starters

• At this time we don\'t sponsor immigration applications (H-1B, etc.) and are only interested in direct candidates (no agencies). Background check is required

Benefits

The comp for this role ranges (based on skills and experience) from $125K - $185K.

On top of that: generous PTO and paid holidays, a company-funded health reimbursement (QSEHRA) toward your insurance premiums and medical costs, and a 401(k) with company contribution. All fully remote, with a steady stream of diverse, high-impact projects and smart people to work alongside.