Solution Architect , Group Benefits Technology

Yoh Services LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Life & Disability Insurance

401K Retirement Savings Plan

Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll

Referral Bonus Programs

Certification and training

Job summary

Yoh Services LLC is seeking a Solution Architect to support a Group Benefits platform in a hybrid environment across NY/NJ/CT/PA. The role focuses on owning product and delivery architecture, ensuring solutions align to business capabilities, and guiding end-to-end designs for application, data, integration, and infrastructure components.

You will mentor engineers and drive architectural quality across teams.

Qualifications

• Insurance domain experience is mandatory, preference for Group Benefits platforms.
• Ability to architect enterprise-scale solutions in complex environments.
• Experience designing for high availability, resiliency, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale, business-critical systems in insurance.
• Experience with APIs, integration patterns, and data integration.

Responsibilities

• Own solution architecture for a Group Benefits platform and value streams.
• Drive architecture alignment with business capabilities and platform direction.
• Design end-to-end architectures across application, data, integration, and infra.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to align roadmaps and MVP scope.
• Enforce design standards, security requirements, and patterns.
• Reuse enterprise capabilities to reduce duplication across teams.
• Identify and remove technical dependencies impacting delivery timelines.
• Provide hands-on guidance on design and implementation approaches.
• Lead proofs-of-concept and influence technology strategy.
• Mentor engineers on architecture principles and decisions.
• Reduce technical debt and improve scalable solutions.

Skills

Insurance domain experience

Enterprise-scale architecture

High availability & scalability

Agile / product delivery

Technical leadership & mentoring

Tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

Solution Architect (Insurance - Group Benefits)

Direct Hire

Hybrid (NY/NJ/CT/PA)

Seeking a Solution Architect to support a Group Benefits platform. This role is urgent and will prioritize candidates with recent, hands-on insurance domain experience and a proven track record architecting large-scale, business-critical systems in the insurance space—ideally tied to group benefits products and platforms.

Work Location (Hybrid)

3 days/week onsite in New York, NY; Holmdel, NJ; Bethlehem, PA; or Stamford, CT

Key Responsibilities

• Own product/team-level solution architecture and delivery architecture for a value stream supporting a Group Benefits insurance platform.
• Drive architecture & technology alignment—ensuring solutions map to business capabilities, product priorities, and platform direction.
• Design and document end-to-end solution architectures including application, integration, data, and infrastructure components.
• Partner with Product Owners and Tech Leads to align roadmaps, MVP scope, sequencing, and technical tradeoffs.
• Apply and enforce architecture standards, security requirements, and approved design patterns.
• Collaborate with architecture and platform teams to reuse enterprise capabilities and reduce duplication.
• Identify, manage, and help remove technical dependencies/impediments impacting delivery timelines.
• Provide hands-on guidance to teams on design quality, code structure, and implementation approaches.
• Lead proofs-of-concept for new capabilities; influence technology strategy, standards, and solution direction.
• Mentor engineers on architecture principles, design decisions, and problem-solving methods.
• Continuously improve platform design by reducing technical debt and simplifying solutions for scalability and delivery speed.
• Be available as needed for major production incidents impacting business operations.

Required Qualifications

• Insurance domain experience is mandatory. Preference for Group Benefits (e.g., Life, Disability, Absence Management, Supplemental Health) platforms.
• Strong experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale solutions in complex environments.
• Demonstrated ability to architect systems that support high availability, resiliency, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Proven track record operating and evolving large-scale, business-critical systems within the insurance domain.
• Working knowledge of:
  • Cloud platforms and services (public cloud + on-prem / hybrid)
  • APIs, integration patterns, and data integration
  • Modern application architecture approaches (service-based architectures, event-driven patterns, etc.)
• Experience working within Agile / product-based delivery models.
• Ability to balance speed, quality, risk, and long-term sustainability in technical decisions.
• Strong communication skills—able to translate technical concepts for product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Experience producing product-level and team-level design documentation.
• Familiarity with GenAI frameworks/tools and best practices (nice-to-have but valued

Work Authorization

• Must be authorized to work in the United States. No sponsorship available.

Estimated Min Rate: $126000.00

Estimated Max Rate: $180000.00

Benefits

• Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Benefits (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Health Savings Account (HSA) (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Life & Disability Insurance (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• MetLife Voluntary Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401K Retirement Savings Plan
• Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll
• Referral Bonus Programs
• Certification and training opportunities

Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations. Actual pay is determined by an applicant's experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description.

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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