Solution Architect: Hybrid Cloud & Enterprise Solutions

The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

Holmdel Township (NJ)

Hybrid

USD 119,000 - 195,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Guardian Life Insurance Company of America in Holmdel, NJ, is seeking a Solution Architect to own and shape technical solutions at the value-stream and product level, ensuring alignment with Guardian standards. This hands-on role partners with Tech Leads, Product Owners, and delivery teams to translate business needs into secure, scalable technology.

Location involves three days a week at Guardian locations in New Yok, NY, Holmdel, NJ or Bethlehem, PA with a salary range of $118,980 to $195,465

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.