Senior Solution Architect — Group Benefits Tech

Guardian Life Insurance; United States; Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Life Insurance seeks a Solution Architect to own and shape technical solutions at the value-stream and product level, ensuring alignment, scalability, and security. This hands-on role partners with Tech Leads, Product Owners, and delivery teams to translate business needs into sound technology solutions.

The architect operates within an federated EA model, collaborating across business tech, platform teams, and governance to ensure consistent, risk-aware decisions and expedited

Qualifications

• Designing and delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions.
• Experience with cloud platforms, APIs, data integration, and modern architectures.
• Strong collaboration in Agile/product-based delivery.
• Hybrid on-premise and public cloud architecture design experience.
• Insurance domain solutions experience and handling large-scale systems.
• Understanding GenAI frameworks and best practices.
• Balance speed, quality, risk, and sustainability in decisions.
• Excellent communication with business and delivery stakeholders.
• Experience producing technical design docs at product and team levels.

Responsibilities

• Owns product/team-level solution design and delivery architecture.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and platform teams.
• Design solution architectures including application, data, and infrastructure components.
• Lead proof-of-concepts for new capabilities and influence strategy.
• Mentor engineers on architecture principles and decisions.
• Identify dependencies and impediments impacting delivery.
• Ensure alignment with Guardian standards and security requirements.
• Provide hands-on guidance on design quality and code structure.
• Assist with production incidents when major impact occurs.
• Align roadmaps with Product Owners and tech leads.
• Reuse enterprise capabilities where appropriate.

Skills

Solution architecture

Enterprise-scale solutions

Cloud platforms

APIs

Agile delivery

Communication skills

Tools

GenAI frameworks

APIs

Job description

Guardian Life Insurance seeks a Solution Architect to own and shape technical solutions at the value-stream and product level, ensuring alignment, scalability, and security. This hands-on role partners with Tech Leads, Product Owners, and delivery teams to translate business needs into sound technology solutions.

The architect operates within an federated EA model, collaborating across business tech, platform teams, and governance to ensure consistent, risk-aware decisions and expedited