IT Solutions Architect (Information Security)

Erie Insurance • Erie, PA

21h • $88,693 - $177,721 • Remote

About The Position

With moderate supervision, translates near-term and long-term business needs into technical initiative solution options. 
Facilitates discussions, leads conceptual and high-level design sessions, capturing the results in artifacts, and ensures the architectural design is realized through delivery. 
Provides context to the architecture team to enable team members to focus, mature domains, and create future-state architectures.

This IT Solutions Architect or IT Sr Solutions Architect supporting the Information Security Sub-portfolio, provide necessary oversight and strategic direction, bridging the gap between the company's needs and technical solutions to ensure alignment with overall strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, Business or related field, plus three years' related experience, or; 
• Associate's degree in a technical field, plus five years' related experience, or; 
• High School Diploma plus seven years' related experience.
• Skill Breadth: 1 or more domains/portfolios
• AWS Solutions Architect – Professional Certification

Nice To Haves

• Strong leadership and mentorship abilities to enhance the skill level of the team.
• Expertise in developing reusable technical assets and ensuring consistency across projects.
• Proficiency in identifying and mitigating risks early in the project lifecycle.
• Ability to provide strategic direction and oversight to align technical solutions with company strategies.
• Experience in managing and reducing technical debt.
• Demonstrated ability to bridge the gap between company needs and technical solutions.
• Proven track record of improving efficiency and reducing errors through the development of reusable technical assets.
• Strong leadership visibility on complex initiatives.
• Effective facilitation of decision-making and resource allocation.
• Successful integration of diverse perspectives into final solutions during design sessions.

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 complexity, while managing multiple customers with differing priorities.
• Provides full-stack architectural options that enable business objectives while ensuring long-term technology goals with little technical validation necessary.
• Informs aspects of portfolio maturity regarding technology and ability to achieve target technology alignment, while facilitating a minimum viable architecture in alignment with delivery needs and technology modernization goals.
• Monitors project execution and considers and interprets architectural tradeoffs occurring during delivery. Escalates for appropriate context sharing and decision making, as necessary.
• Proactively enables portfolio owners to see technical debt clearly, provides appropriate context to leadership to inform plans for achieving elimination of technical debt.
• Fosters an environment for architects and other technology leaders to grow and have high impact.
• Drives closure on investment decisions within the enterprise while also identifying cross-portfolio impacts.
• Provides 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.
• 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.
• Additional benefits that include 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: Mid Level