Enterprise Solution & Business Architect

Pekin Insurance Careers • Pekin, IL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Solution & Business Architect works across Life and Property & Casualty (P&C) to connect business strategy, operating needs, and technology direction. The role partners with Life and P&C business and IT leaders to understand the current environment, define future-state requirements, and translate those needs into actionable business and solution architecture.

The architect facilitates discovery, documents current-state architecture, develops future-state concepts and roadmaps, and translates business outcomes into solution direction for delivery teams and technology partners. The role evaluates alternatives and communicates tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and impacts across business areas and shared enterprise capabilities. It also maintains reusable architecture documentation and presents recommendations to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future. The pay range is $108,000–$140,000 per year, with final compensation dependent on experience and skills.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in the insurance industry, including work across Life and Property & Casualty (P&C).
• Demonstrated experience in solution architecture and business architecture.
• Experience partnering with business and IT stakeholders to document current state, define future-state requirements, and develop practical architecture designs.
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience; a degree is preferred but not required.
• Equivalent consideration may be given to candidates with at least 10 years of relevant insurance, solution architecture, business architecture, or enterprise transformation experience.
• Knowledge of solution architecture and business architecture.
• Knowledge of Life and P&C insurance domains.
• Knowledge of current-state and future-state analysis, requirements discovery, and stakeholder facilitation.
• Knowledge of technical documentation and architecture diagramming.
• Knowledge of strategic thinking and roadmap development.
• Knowledge of business capability, process, data, application, and integration analysis.
• Knowledge of executive communication, influence, and decision support.
• Ability to work across business, IT, delivery teams, and vendors.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with insurance policy, billing, claims, distribution, or customer platforms.
• Experience supporting enterprise transformation, modernization, or capability roadmaps.
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks, capability modeling, process modeling, and integration patterns.
• Master's degree or relevant architecture/business analysis certification.
• Preferred, not required: TOGAF, Certified Business Architect (CBA), AWS architecture certification, or IASA certification.
• Enterprise architecture frameworks or methods such as TOGAF or similar.
• Business architecture methods such as capability mapping, value streams, or operating-model design.
• Familiarity with cloud, API, integration, data, security, and application modernization concepts.
• Experience with insurance platforms and vendor solution assessments.
• Familiarity with Agile, product, and project delivery models.
• Experience creating technology strategies, transition architectures, and multi-year roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate discovery sessions with Life and P&C business and IT stakeholders to capture capabilities, processes, pain points, data needs, system dependencies, and technical constraints.
• Document current-state business and technology architecture, including process flows, capability maps, application interactions, integrations, and key gaps.
• Define future-state business and solution architecture aligned to strategic priorities, customer and agent needs, operational efficiency, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Develop future-state concepts, architecture options, diagrams, roadmaps, and design recommendations to support investment and sequencing decisions.
• Translate business outcomes and requirements into clear solution direction for delivery teams, vendors, and technology partners.
• Evaluate solution alternatives and communicate tradeoffs, dependencies, risks, assumptions, and impacts across Life, P&C, and shared enterprise capabilities.
• Partner with project managers, business analysts, product owners, engineering teams, vendors, security, data, and infrastructure teams to maintain alignment from discovery through delivery.
• Establish and maintain reusable architecture documentation, standards, decision records, and traceability between business needs and solution designs.
• Present recommendations to technical and nontechnical audiences and help build consensus around target-state decisions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Paid holidays
• Flexible/hybrid work schedule
• Paid volunteer program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior