Cloud Solutions Architect

Genworth Financial • Richmond, VA

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Genworth, we empower families to navigate the aging journey with confidence. We are compassionate, experienced allies for those navigating care with guidance, products, and services that meet families where they are. Further, we are the spouses, children, siblings, friends, and neighbors of those that need care—and we bring those experiences with us to work in serving our millions of policyholders each day. We apply that same compassion and empathy as we work with each other and our local communities. Genworth values all perspectives, characteristics, and experiences so that employees can bring their full, authentic selves to work to help each other and our company succeed. We celebrate our diversity and understand that being intentional about inclusion is the only way to create a sense of belonging for all associates. We also invest in the vitality of our local communities through grants from the Genworth Foundation, event sponsorships, and employee volunteerism. Our four values guide our strategy, our decisions, and our interactions: Make it human. We care about the people that make up our customers, colleagues, and communities. Make it about others. We do what's best for our customers and collaborate to drive progress. Make it happen. We work with intention toward a common purpose and forge ways forward together. Make it better. We create fulfilling purpose-driven careers by learning from the world and each other. As an IT team member, you’ll play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and managing technology solutions that are the foundation of the world class customer service that our customers expect and deserve – now and in the future. The Cloud Solutions Architect. is responsible for leading and developing the architectural and product standards in the design and delivery of its technology platforms. In addition, the Architect helps to lead IT and the business in the evaluation and selection of new or emerging technologies that support the achievement of strategic goals and objectives. This role participates in the development of the overall IT Strategy that illustrates the adoption, deployment and realization of technologies, services, and capabilities that will be implemented in support of the business strategy. Working alongside the Director of Enterprise Cloud Architecture, this role will help determine how technology can be used to innovate and provide competitive advantage to the company. The Architect is expected to be a domain expert across multiple technologies and assist in mentoring development organization on those technologies. The Architect’s goal is to fully understand the business strategies, recommend technologies to enable those strategies, lead the adoption and be an expert in those technologies, and serve as an advisor and resource to the development organization, Business Relationship Managers (BRMs) and business partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar discipline
• Excellent knowledge of current and future technologies and trends impacting the insurance and financial services industry
• 5+ years experience as a Lead Architect
• 5+ years experience in Enterprise Application Integration
• 5+ years experience in Cloud technologies(AWS or Azure) and proven record of leading implementation of those technologies
• Proven experience in architecting, designing and implementing enterprise-scale, high volume, highly availability systems
• Experience in IT strategy development and long-range capital planning

Responsibilities

• Participates in the Enterprise Architecture group that is responsible for defining and maintaining product and architectural standards for application services, including the application integration framework and architecture
• Collaborate with the application, data, network, and identity architects on defining, designing, and delivering cloud specific technical architectures, patterns, and operability of cloud architecture solutions for cloud native applications and cloud migrated applications
• Assist application solution architects to design scalable, highly available, secure application solutions that leverage cloud services
• Act as a point of escalation for the Cloud Engineering team during implementation of designs
• Defines, develops, and maintains reference architectures for commonly used delivery patterns
• Manages the overall cloud ecosystem as one of the lead administrators
• Perform technical architecture planning activities for cloud initiatives.
• Facilitate and develop architectural standards for cloud related technologies
• Design software architecture based on requirements and design elements contained in system specification.
• Analyze business requirements and identify risks/problems in meeting system requirements.
• Ensure the overall integrity of the cloud architecture and validates against system specifications.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation & Total Rewards Incentives
• Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage
• Multiple 401(k) Savings Plan Options
• Auto Enrollment in Employer-Directed Retirement Account Feature (100% employer-funded!)
• Generous Paid Time Off – Including 12 Paid Holidays, Volunteer Time Off and Paid Family Leave
• Disability, Life, and Long Term Care Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement, Student Loan Repayment and Training & Certification Support
• Wellness support including gym membership reimbursement and Employee Assistance Program resources (work/life support, financial & legal management)
• Caregiver and Mental Health Support Services

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees