Sr. Solution Architect - REMOTE from any EST...

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CNO Financial Group's IT Team is hiring a Sr. Solution Architect to design solution and integration architectures based on business requirements across a diverse application portfolio. With primary responsibility for integration architecture using Azure Synapse and Azure Data Factory, this role will lead a new SaaS implementation for corporate finance and financial planning, serving as the primary architectural partner to vendors to define and govern the overall solution.

This is your opportunity to provide technical leadership, feasibility analysis, and oversight for complex initiatives, lead project delivery across technologies, and ensure successful and seamless integrations.

As** **a Sr. Solution Architect, your responsibilities will include:

• Providing logical solution architecture for applications, integrations, and components to successfully deliver projects and meet business goals under limited direction.

• Designing solutions across a broad and diverse application landscape based on defined business requirements.

• Providing technical oversight for projects, including reviewing development team designs and coordinating across technical teams.

• Partnering with business and delivery stakeholders to understand and translate business requirements into technical solutions.

• Ensuring adherence to CNO architecture standards and best practices.

• Collaborating frequently with IT disciplines including analysts, developers, testers, and project managers to ensure successful project delivery.

• Developing high-level estimates for complex initiatives, including those with incomplete or evolving requirements.

• Prototyping and evaluating new technologies to inform architectural decisions.

• Producing high-quality architecture designs and supporting documentation.

• Performing additional duties as assigned.

• Have a strong understanding and knowledge base of architecture and solutioning principles/practices.

• Can solve complex technical problems through methodical thinking, planning and overcoming obstacles.

• Are a strong and effective communicator and can discuss complex problems across both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Have a strong understanding of the current technology landscape, including a diverse set of applications and solution patterns.

What you'll need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.

• Typically requires a minimum of five to seven years of related technical experience, with increasing responsibility.

• Demonstrated experience on project teams building large enterprise, mission critical systems and clearly articulating complex solutions to senior management and stakeholders.

What will set you apart:

• Time as a technical lead/lead programmer is a plus; familiarity with Python.

• Experience with relational databases (Oracle preferred) and Unix environments.

• Proven team-oriented mindset, with experience collaborating effectively across technical and business teams to drive solutions forward.

• Prior experience leading solution and integration architecture across Azure platforms, including Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Data Factory.

Pay Range: $118,600.00 - $178,000.00 Annual

CNO embraces flexibility and encourages you to work where you're most productive. Associates who live within a 60-mile radius of a corporate office (Carmel, Chicago, and Orlando) have access to come into that office. Associates who live outside of a 60-mile radius of a corporate office (Carmel, Chicago, and Orlando) may perform this role full-time work from home (WFH) from any EST or CST US-based time zone. All associates may be asked to travel to varying corporate offices periodically. Work cannot be performed from outside of the United States. CNO Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CNO) secures the future of middle-income America. CNO provides life and health insurance, annuities, financial services and workforce benefits solutions through our family of brands, including Bankers Life, Colonial Penn, Optavise and Washington National. Our customers work hard to save for the future, and we help protect their health, income and retirement needs with 3.3 million policies and more than $38.3 billion in total assets. Our 3,300 associates, 4,900 exclusive agents and more than 6,500 independent partner agents guide individuals, families and businesses through a lifetime of financial decisions. We are financially strong and well positioned for continued growth, and we are grounded in our core values of People Focused, Integrity, Customer Driven, and Excellence. We have offices in more than 220 communities in the U.S., including our headquarters in Carmel, Indiana, and corporate offices in Chicago, and Orlando. At CNO Financial Group, we're always looking forward-to the security and stability we help create for our insurance brands' customers, and the growth we create within our own company. We're looking for ambitious people who want to do more. We'll provide you with opportunities to grow your skills through challenging professional experiences. If you're looking for a culture that encourages development, helps you reach your potential, and rewards you for your contribution, then CNO Financial Group is right for you. For more information, visit CNOinc.com.