Solution Architect - Individual Markets

The Solution Architect is responsible for owning and shaping technical solutions at the value-stream and product level, ensuring architectural alignment, scalability, and adherence to Guardian standards. This role is hands-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 on solution 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., * 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.
• Continuously look for opportunities to simplify 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 impact to business operations

• 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., 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.

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.

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