Sr. Solutions Architect-Digital Cust Delivery (Contractor)
US
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The Knights of Columbus is a tax-exempt Catholic fraternal benefit society that provides financial security to members and their families through our life insurance, long-term care insurance, disability income insurance, investment and annuity products. Charity is at the core of our missions: our profits are donated to help those in need and to support our faith - $1.73B over the past ten years.
While we have many employees who are not Catholic, we follow the Church’s teachings in our investment strategies and our employee benefits. As part of our religious mission, we support the pro-life cause by contributing to the March for Life and pregnancy resource centers, we oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia, we are evangelists for the Catholic faith, and we help Christians who are facing religious persecution in the Middle East. We all work together to support our two million members as they volunteer to help others in their parishes and communities around the world.
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Overview
The Sr. Solutions Architect is responsible for designing business solutions and capabilities in alignment with enterprise architecture standards and strategic direction for the organization’s external facing presence, Marketing, Sales & Distribution, Customer Service, Online Membership, and Charity services.
The Solution Architect will be responsible for leading the solution design and implementation for complex systems, platforms and would interact with key business stakeholders, design teams, development and QA teams on a variety of projects in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will have strong technical aptitude & business acumen in the insurer sector; and will effectively drive technology change by creating, communicating and improving the key requirements, principles and models that describe the enterprises future state and enable its evolution.
Core Responsibilities
- Designs enterprise solutions and capabilities that are scalable, adaptable, and in synchrony with the ever-changing business needs in alignment with the architecture strategy, policies, standards and procedures
- Promotes shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flow. Contributes to a reduction in IT complexity, enforcement of discipline and standardization of IT planning activities, consolidation of data and applications, and better interoperability of the systems. Facilitates the reuse of ideas, components, services, and proven patterns across various solutions.
- Understands business requirements as they pertain to digital technologies (including digital marketing, strategy, content, application modernization, DevOps / Agile processes, API / microservices architecture and digital workspace).
- Leads the design of innovative enterprise solutions, working closely with Programmer Analysts, QA, and other stakeholders to get high-quality products and features through the agile software project lifecycle. Provides hands-on software development and project management, cross-functional coordination, and inter/intra team communications to ensure program success and delivery throughput.
- Documents and communicates architectural requirements for solutions and capabilities.
- Maintains architectural documentation of solutions built and supported by the cross functional Solutions Delivery teams
Skills Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience working with CRM platforms.
- Expertise with a broad base of digital web and mobile products, technologies, platforms, patterns, frameworks, and methodologies
- Experience with single sign-on systems, role-based access management systems, and PII data security best practices
- Expertise with typical multi-tier architectures: web servers, caching, application servers, load balancers, and storage
- Experience developing and refining best practices for implementation and maintenance of e-Commerce, CRM, web, social media, and web analytic assets
- Experience with general security technologies, processes, and concepts
- Experience with architectural framework (TOGAF, Zachman, FEA, or a hybrid of multiple frameworks).
- Experience within SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud environments
- Experience with User Centered Design practices.
- Experience in Content Management systems (TeamSite knowledge a plus)
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, system analysis, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 10 or more years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations
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