Solution Architect II

Hagerty; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Hagerty is seeking a Solution Architect II to design software solutions with a long-term strategic view. You will steward bounded contexts, architect APIs, and ensure clear communication across business and technical stakeholders.

As a senior contributor, you will lead discussions on product design, publish design artifacts, and drive architectural maturity within Hagerty’s technology portfolio. This role is open to U.S. remote work and may involve travel for quarterly events.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication across audiences of varying technical levels.
• Experience leading discussions around product design and strategy.
• Ability to create visual artifacts that represent contexts and designs.
• Eager to learn and share knowledge with the team.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain bounded contexts between software product domains.
• Design inter-context communication specifications and APIs.
• Explain technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders and publish artifacts.
• Evaluate tradeoffs in solution design and influence roadmaps.
• Publish common integration patterns for reuse by teams.

Skills

Talented communicator

Lead discussions

Create visual artifacts

Growth mindset

Tools

OpenAPI

API design

C4 modeling

Duck Creek Insurance Platform

Job description

Say hello to Hagerty

Hagerty is a company built by drivers for drivers. We put our members at the center of everything we do and are dedicated to making it easier and more enjoyable for enthusiasts to drive and celebrate the machines they love. We’re proud to be the world’s largest insurer of collectible and enthusiast vehicles and are home to the Hagerty Drivers Club, the world’s largest car club. Our Marketplace business presents live and digital sales across the U.S. and Europe, we host a number of driving events and concours, and our award‑winning automotive journalists produce the most popular car magazine globally, alongside internationally awarded videos. We’re committed to Never Stop Driving.

Say hello to Hagerty

Hagerty is a company built by drivers for drivers. We put our members at the center of everything we do and are dedicated to making it easier and more enjoyable for enthusiasts to drive and celebrate the machines they love. We’re proud to be the world’s largest insurer of collectible and enthusiast vehicles and are home to the Hagerty Drivers Club, the world’s largest car club. Our Marketplace business presents live and digital sales across the U.S. and Europe, we host a number of driving events and concours, and our award‑winning automotive journalists produce the most popular car magazine globally, alongside internationally awarded videos. We’re committed to Never Stop Driving. Ready to get in the driver’s seat? Join us!

As a Solution Architect II, you will join us in creating software solutions that are well designed and take a long term strategic view. By considering the impact of design choices today against an understanding of a software product’s strategic direction, our solution architects seek to limit future constraints and provide the correct amount of flexibility while delivering business value with timely releases. The team achieves this by placing business capabilities into Hagerty’s Technology Portfolio of Software Assets, by architecting software services, designing APIs, and maintaining clear bounded contexts between each. As excellent communicators and leaders within the organization, they ensure all audiences are aligned on why our software solutions are required, how they are implemented, and what they achieve.

What You’ll Do

Own and maintain bounded contexts between software product domains in our Technology Portfolio by-

• Acting as a subject matter expert on 1-3 complex domains within our business
• Building shared understanding around the encapsulation and distinct purposes of your domains
• Decomposing new business concepts and capabilities into bounded contexts
• Creating and maintaining context maps that detail your context’s interactions with others in the Portfolio

Design and own inter-context communication specifications that serve the needs of the business now and in the future by-

• Designing HTTP APIs and messages that provide solutions to business capabilities and product features
• Deciding whether to extend, refactor, or build new software
• Establishing strong domain concepts in your API resources that can evolve naturally, over narrow bespoke solutions
• Writing excellent design artifacts (OpenAPI, etc.) that make solutions simple to implement and easy to test

Elevate the communication of the enterprise around technology and how it serves our strategy by-

• Explaining technical concepts and solutions to nontechnical stakeholders both ad-hoc and by publishing solution artifacts
• Championing the capabilities of your product domain(s) to stakeholders and other product teams
• Informing product decision making via your technical knowledge and experience creating software

Mature Architectural thinking at Hagerty by-

• Evaluating tradeoffs in solution design (e.g. speed, technical debt, vendor cost, complexity) and documenting how you reached your decisions
• Being opinionated on implementation based on your knowledge of your product’s roadmaps and the business’ strategy
• Measuring architectural maturity in the product contexts you support, and proposing ways to improve that maturity by working with Application Architecture and Engineering
• Publishing and adopting common integration patterns between contexts that can be easily re-used by other architects and teams

This might describe you

You're a talented communicator

• You meet people where they are and then build shared understanding
• Comfortable and effective explaining technical concepts to audiences of varying level and technical skill
• Lead and contribute to discussions around product design per business strategy
• Bias towards creating visual artifacts that represent contexts, designs, and shared understanding
• You enjoy learning and then sharing what you’ve learned with others
• You write effectively about how software works

You have a breadth of experience building software

• Programming languages
• Deployment
• Databases/PersistencePatterns and anti-patterns

You have a Fundamental knowledge of technology concepts

• API Design
• HTTP Communication
• ReST/RPC Styles
• Data movement-- polling, eventing, messaging
• Integration patterns and lifecycle
• Identity— Authentication and Authorization

You have a growth mindset

• You recognize that relying on your current knowledge means falling behind, and you treat continuous learning as a professional responsibility
• You are energized by discovering a tool, pattern, or approach you didn't know existed
• You share what you’ve learned with the team because you know that communicating what you have learned helps you deepen your own understanding while helping your teammates grow

You have experience being in a visible senior role and want to collaborate with others

You enjoy operating independentl…

You love discovering the actual problem that needs to be solved as much as solving

Pluses

• You’ve deployed and/or integrated software with the Duck Creek Insurance Platform
• You’ve read Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans
• You’re familiar with modeling tools such as C4
• When there’s no leader in the room, you tend to take the lead rather than wait
• You’re comfortable in front of audiences of all sizes
• You’ve written .NET code
• You’ve designed and released APIs with both ReST and RPC styles
• You love creating excellent API documentation with tools like OpenAPI

Other Things To Note

• This position is open to U.S. remote work. However, team members who reside within 20 miles of the Traverse City headquarters will follow a hybrid schedule, working from the office three days per week.
• May require travel for quarterly events.
• Familiarity with public company requirements, including Sarbanes Oxley and key regulations, if applicable. For SOX compliant roles, responsible for designing, executing, and documenting internal controls where they have been identified as owners to prevent errors in financial reporting, processes, and business operations. Including attestation to the completeness, accuracy, and compliance of all financial reporting data, where applicable.

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

At Hagerty, we share the road. We are an inclusive automotive community where all are welcomed, valued and belong regardless of race, gender, age, or car preference. We are united by our shared passion for driving, our commitment to preserve car culture for future generations and our desire to make a positive impact in the world.