IT Senior Solutions Architect

Erie Insurance • Erie, PA

259d • $109,074 - $174,235

About The Position

This opportunity is for an IT Sr Solution Architect with experience in the property casualty insurance industry claims technology function. This person will serve on ERIE's Claims Management Program leadership team, guiding, directing and facilitating the creation of options and high level designs to direct agile teams in creating industry leading Claims Service capabilities. In this role, you will translate business needs to initiative solution options and context for future state planning. You will interact with ERIE leadership to provide visibility on initiative progress to validate that designs are realized through delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, Business, or related field plus 5 years with related experience and 3 years in architecture.
• Architecture experience equal to two domains or portfolios.
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification required.
• AWS/Cloud Experience.
• Guidewire Claims Platform experience or equivalent.

Nice To Haves

• Experience operating as a solution architect with Agile teams.
• Property and Casualty Claims technology and solution development experience.
• AWS Cloud experience.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the single point of accountability for architecture function to portfolio owner customers and technology leadership.
• Provides architectural guidance on initiatives of moderate to high complexity across multiple enterprise portfolios, while managing multiple customers with differing priorities on the organization's most strategic initiatives.
• Provides full-stack architectural options that enable business objectives while ensuring long-term technology goals for all aspects of a solution.
• Collaborates with team members for technical validation during design and planning phases.
• Informs aspects of portfolio maturity regarding technology and ability to achieve target technology alignment, while facilitating a minimum viable architecture.
• Monitors large-scale project execution and considers and interprets architectural tradeoffs occurring during delivery.
• Proactively enables portfolio owners to see technical debt clearly, provides appropriate context to inform plans to achieve elimination of technical debt in a comprehensive plan across multiple portfolios, delivery teams, programs, or projects.
• Serves as a mentor for other members of the team, builds an environment for analysts, engineers, architects, and other technology leaders to grow and have high impact.
• Directs and drives closure on investment decisions within the enterprise while also identifying cross-portfolio impacts on significant delivery initiatives.
• Serves as a subject matter expert for multiple portfolios, providing actionable recommendations via consultation services, adapted to stakeholder context, to technology leadership and organizational stakeholders.
• Collaborates with architects, portfolio owners, and other job families to achieve an enterprise view; provides project and program level views to project and program teams in context of enterprise strategies and directions with light supervision.
• Supports business agility through agile engagement across multiple delivery operations.
• Interprets business needs, assesses solution choices, applies technology, and provides project guidance within a long-term enterprise lens.

Benefits

• Premier health, prescription, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents. Coverage begins your first day of work.
• Low contributions to medical and prescription premiums. We currently pay up to 97% of employees' monthly premium costs.
• Pension. We are one of only 13 Fortune 500 companies to offer a traditional pension plan. Full-time employees are vested after five years of service.
• 401(k) with up to 4% contribution match. The 401(k) is offered in addition to the pension.
• Paid time off. Paid vacation, personal days, sick days, bereavement days and parental leave.
• Career development. Including a tuition reimbursement program for higher education and industry designations.
• Company-paid basic life insurance; short-and long-term disability insurance; orthodontic coverage for children and adults; adoption assistance; fertility and infertility coverage; well-being programs; paid volunteer hours for service to your community; and dollar-for-dollar matching of your charitable gifts each year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree