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Solutions Architect
1700 Farnam Street Omaha, NE 68102 US
2026-01-15
2026-03-12
Employment Type:
Contract To Hire
Application Link: 4475
Job Description
Solution Architect
Summary
Serves as a bridge between key business stakeholders and the Business Technology organization. Effectively collaborates and communicates to develop a close working relationship with Application owners, developers, and system administrators. Evaluates all business requirements to determine how different elements of business, information, and technology can be applied to solve a specific problem while adhering to enterprise architecture and security standards and definitions. Assists in defining the scope of a project by outlining technical components and parameters, identifying applications and interfaces, and documenting these components. Helps to mature cloud practices across the enterprise, enhance our cloud strategy, and provide technical leadership supporting in cloud efforts. Actively leads a technical vision from concept to completion.
Responsibilities
The Ideal Candidate:
Desired Qualifications:
Summary
Serves as a bridge between key business stakeholders and the Business Technology organization. Effectively collaborates and communicates to develop a close working relationship with Application owners, developers, and system administrators. Evaluates all business requirements to determine how different elements of business, information, and technology can be applied to solve a specific problem while adhering to enterprise architecture and security standards and definitions. Assists in defining the scope of a project by outlining technical components and parameters, identifying applications and interfaces, and documenting these components. Helps to mature cloud practices across the enterprise, enhance our cloud strategy, and provide technical leadership supporting in cloud efforts. Actively leads a technical vision from concept to completion.
Responsibilities
- Creates and delivers working, production-ready reference implementations that can be leveraged easily by Agile teams.
- Works closely with the product managers, product owners and Enterprise Architecture peers (enterprise, solution, business process, security, data and application architects) to enable infrastructure agility, scalability and resilience to support required product needs throughout product lifecycle.
- Socialize the Enterprise Architecture process across the enterprise and lead the communication activities needed to ensure enterprise success and use.
- Directs, coaches and mentors team members to ensure engagement and productivity levels are maintained; sets clear objectives and compares deliverables against objectives. Leads other Architects in Practice.
- Leads and drives software modernization efforts across the organization.
- Provides leadership and guidance on establishing a cloud reference architecture used by cross-functional teams to create and implement technical solutions that address business problems or support new business-driven initiatives.
- Collaborates with technical subject matter experts and Enterprise Architecture peers to develop technology architecture that enables and drives new business capabilities and operating models.
- Provides the bridge between customers, business analysts, development leads, project managers and platform managers.
- Consults on application or infrastructure development projects to compare systems or infrastructure with the enterprise architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise technical architecture to accommodate immediate or future project needs.
- Works with Enterprise Architecture peers (enterprise, solution, business process, application, data, and security architects) to analyze enterprise business context (business strategy and trends), as well as evaluate requirements in other enterprise architecture viewpoints (such as business, information, and solution) to derive the future state technology architecture. This includes defining the requirements, principles and models that guide technology decisions at the software product level.
- Participates in the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement. In addition, analyzes the technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on technology architecture.
- Drives digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base and IT estate. Utilizes high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the future and current state, typically in sync with the IT budgeting or other capital planning processes.
- Develops/applies technical expertise and business acumen in Microsoft cloud offering to promote innovative solutions.
- Understands technology trends and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
- Participates in the evaluation of technology investment decisions based on the analysis needed to drive targeted business outcomes. Works with the enterprise architect to define metrics to measure and demonstrate enterprise technology value.
- Collaborates on the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations.
- Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures and culture) and financial impact of the enterprise technology architecture.
- Analyzes business context, as well as change requirements in other architecture viewpoints and integration architecture to derive the solutions architecture future state.
- Capable of producing software-based Proof of Technology and business based proof of Concepts to validate and innovate new ways of thinking and working with technology that can support potentially provide new opportunities to the business.
- Utilizes skills and experiences to support other Solutions Architects in complex proposals and initiatives.
- Maintains awareness of business and industry issues/trends, as well as new technologies and frameworks through continuing education; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies and industry groups.
- Applies discretion to develop innovative solutions to problems without precedent.
- Influences goals/objectives for the organization.
The Ideal Candidate:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or technology field and at least ten years’ experience in a multiple vendor information systems applications environment.
- Seven or more years’ experience in a technical (hands-on) software or applications engineering leadership role; ability to lead, motivate, and develop a team of professionals capable of achieving aggressive business goals and objectives.
- 3+ years’ experience working in an Agile environment.
- Experience architecting/designing solutions built on cloud (Azure, AWS).
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy solutions to the cloud.
- Broad experience and interest in modern software architectural design and development techniques such as: Microservices, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), DevOps, containers, serverless, CI/CD, design patterns, messaging, data replication and synchronization, Spring framework, integration strategies, techniques and frameworks (i.e. iDesign), and Microsoft .NET Framework and design patterns.
- Capable of creating designs supporting complex concepts that communicate current and target state architectures.
- Experience with Azure Subscriptions, Management Groups, and Policy-as-code.
- Experience with Azure Security and Identity services (e.g., Security Center, Azure Active Directory, RBAC, NSGs / ASGs).
- Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD Pipelines, and related tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Docker).
- Knowledge and understanding of how to utilize PaaS, IaaS.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code and software development lifecycle.
- Demonstrated ability to motivate and gain acceptance of ideas.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to grasp new concepts quickly and desire to learn new skills.
- Ability to define problems, establish facts, draw valid conclusions and manage multiple project deadlines.
- Expert level of IT Security awareness. Aware of current Security threats effecting software and system. Focused on threat mitigation in system designs. Knowledge of OWASP and the Known Vulnerability Database (NVD).
Desired Qualifications:
- Knowledge of the insurance/financial services industry.
- Azure Solution Architect Certification.
- Java or Microsoft .NET Certified.
- M365 administration and tools experience.
- SAFE experienced preferred.
- Contract, Contract to Hire
- Remote
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