Solution Architect , Group Benefits Technology

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 across value-streams, ensuring alignment with Guardian standards and security. The role combines hands-on delivery with collaboration across Product Owners, Tech Leads, and EA teams to translate business needs into scalable, resilient technology.

Working within a federated EA model, you will lead architecture decisions, document designs, and drive delivery enablement while mentoring engineers to improve design quality

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, APIs, data integration, and modern app architectures.
• Experience in Agile/product-based delivery models.
• Designing hybrid architectures (on-premise and public cloud).
• Proven track record in insurance-domain solutions.
• Good understanding of GenAI frameworks, tools, and best practices.
• Ability to balance speed, quality, risk, and long-term sustainability.
• Strong communication skills to translate tech to business stakeholders.
• Experience producing product- and team-level technical design documentation.

Responsibilities

• Own product/team-level solution design and delivery architecture.
• Design and document solution architectures, including application, integration, data, and infrastructure components.
• Partner with Product Owners and Tech Leads to align roadmaps and trade-offs.
• Ensure solutions follow Guardian architecture standards and security requirements.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and platform teams to reuse enterprise capabilities.
• Mentor engineers on architecture principles and problem-solving techniques.

Skills

Enterprise-scale design

Cloud & APIs

Agile delivery

Hybrid cloud

GenAI frameworks

Communication skills

Documentation skills

Insurance domain

Mentorship

Tools

GenAI frameworks

GenAI tools

Job description

Hybrid - In office 3 days per week

New York

Bethlehem

Holmdel

Stamford

Full time

R000109913

Position Overview:

The Solution Architect is responsible forowning and shaping technical solutions at the value-stream and product level, ensuring architectural alignment, scalability, and adherence to Guardian standards. This role ishands-on and execution-oriented, partnering closely 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 (EA) model, partnering closely with business technology and platform teams to shape solutions in real time while improving accountability, speed, and delivery alignment. The architect remains connected to the central EA core through enterprise standards, governance, communities of practice, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure consistent, risk-aware technology decisions across domains.

The Solution Architect focuses onsolution design, delivery enablement, and technical problem solving, building solutions while collaborating with Business stakeholders, Enterprise Architecture and platform teams to align with broader enterprise patterns.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ownsproduct/team-level solution design and delivery architecture
• Works withPrincipal Solution Architect for patterns/guardrails; Head of Portfolio Architecture for BU priorities; Principal Enterprise Architect only when enterprise exceptions or cross-domain conflicts arise
• Ownproduct- and team-level technical architecture decisionswithin a value stream.
• Design and document solution architectures, includingapplication, integration, data, and infrastructure components.
• Partner with Product Owners and Tech Leads to alignroadmaps, MVP scope, and technical trade-offs.
• Ensure solutions followGuardian architecture standards, security requirements, and design patterns.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and platform teams toreuse enterprise capabilitieswhereappropriate.
• Identify, manage, and help resolvetechnical dependencies and impedimentsimpactingdelivery.
• Providehands-on guidance to teams ondesign quality, code structure, and technical approaches.
• Lead proof-of-concepts for new business capabilities,InfluencingTechnology Strategy, Solution Design, Architecture Standards.
• Mentor engineers on architecture principles, design decisions, and problem-solving techniques.
• Continuously look for opportunities tosimplify 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 impacttobusiness operations

You Have:

• Strong experience designing and deliveringenterprise-scale technology solutions.
• Working knowledge ofcloud platforms, APIs, data integration, and modern applicationarchitectures.
• Experience collaboratingwithinAgile / product-based delivery models.
• Experience in designing hybrid architectures where applicationsresidebothon-premiseand publiccloudincluding understanding of cloud provider services.
• Proventrack recordof architecting solutions that demand operating large scale business critical systems inInsurancedomain.
• Good understanding of GenAI frameworks,toolsand best practices
• Ability to balancespeed, quality, risk, and long-term sustainabilityin technical decisions.
• Strong communicationskills to translatetechnical concepts for business and delivery stakeholders.
• Experience producingproduct-level and team-level technical design documentation.

Location: 3 days per week in New York NY, Holmdel NJ, Bethlehem PA, or Stamford CT

Salary Range:

$118,980.00 - $195,465.00

The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.

Our Promise

At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.

Inspire Well-Being

As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues. Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits . Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

Accommodations

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Visa Sponsorship

Guardian Life is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment-based visas (e.g., such as an H-1B). In order to be a successful applicant, you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship/support now or at any time in the future.

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