Solution Architect – Finance, Risk & Investments | Hybrid

Guardian Life; Holmdel Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

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

This role operates within a federated Enterprise Architecture model, partnering with business tech and platform teams

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms, APIs, data integration, and modern application architectures.
• Experience collaborating within Agile / product-based delivery models.
• Experience in designing hybrid architectures where applications reside both on-premise and public cloud including understanding of cloud provider services.
• Proven track record of architecting solutions that demand operating large scale business critical systems in Insurance domain.
• Good understanding of GenAI frameworks, tools and best practices
• Ability to balance speed, quality, risk, and long-term sustainability in technical decisions.
• Strong communication skills to translate technical concepts for business and delivery stakeholders.
• Experience producing product-level and team-level technical design documentation.

Responsibilities

• Owns product/team-level solution design and delivery architecture.
• Works with Principal Solution Architect for patterns/guardrails; Head of Portfolio Architecture for BU priorities; Principal Enterprise Architect only when enterprise exceptions or cross-domain conflicts arise.
• Own product- and team-level technical architecture decisions within a value stream.
• Design and document solution architectures, including application, integration, data, and infrastructure components.
• Partner with Product Owners and Tech Leads to align roadmaps, MVP scope, and technical trade-offs.
• Ensure solutions follow Guardian architecture standards, security requirements, and design patterns.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and platform teams to reuse enterprise capabilities where appropriate
• Identify, manage, and help resolve technical dependencies and impediments impacting delivery.
• Provide hands-on guidance to teams on design quality, code structure, and technical approaches.
• Lead proof-of-concepts for new business capabilities, Influencing Technology Strategy, Solution Design, Architecture Standards.
• Mentor engineers on architecture principles, design decisions, and problem-solving techniques.
• Continuously look for opportunities to simplify designs, reduce technical debt, and improve delivery efficiency.
• Where applicable, the role will be accountable to build solutions that scale and algin to business and technology requirements.
• Available for production incidents with major impact to business operations

Skills

Enterprise-scale solutions

Cloud platforms

Agile delivery

Hybrid architecture

GenAI frameworks

Tools

APIs

Data integration

Security standards

Job description

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

This role operates within a federated Enterprise Architecture model, partnering with business tech and platform teams