Lead Solutions Architect

Transamerica • Cedar Rapids, IA

2d • $130,000 - $165,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Solutions Architect is responsible for designing, architecting, and supporting systems, services, and applications essential for enabling an agile digital enterprise. This role guides the architecture and design of technologies that underpin digital experience, digital correspondence, digital connectivity, digital exchange services, and shared data platforms. Additionally, the Lead Solutions Architect contributes to defining web and data strategies, expanding capabilities, and developing comprehensive enterprise solutions by providing technical leadership, keeping abreast of advancements in application solutions, and offering direction on design, frameworks, and platform selection.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, engineering, MIS, or equivalent experience
• Five years of collective experience in the application of architecture, enterprise roadmaps, analytics, cloud, IT strategies, innovation, SAFE, TOGAF and data integration concepts and methodologies
• Well versed in defining, recommending, promoting, and enforcing program and project solutions
• Expertise using SQL for data profiling, analysis, and extraction
• Three years of experience in the five following areas: (1) Architecting, building and administering complex architectures and technologies, and real-time streaming analytics architectures in both on premises and cloud environments (2) Architecting, building and administering large-scale distributed applications (3) Linux operations and development, including CLI, basic commands and shell scripting (Powershell, Bash) (4) Architecting scalable containerized applications with container orchestration framework (5) Execution of DevOps methodologies and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
• Attention to detail and results oriented, with a strong customer focus
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Technical communication skills
• Prioritization skills to meet tight deadlines
• The ability to work in a team environment
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
• We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Nice To Haves

• Leadership capability to effectively communicate with all levels of management
• Software development experience in relevant programming languages (i.e. Spark, Java, Python, Scala, Node.js, SQL)
• Thorough Knowledge of open API Specification, REST, API designs, Security and implementation
• Experience in digital experience technologies (Drupal CMS) in complex enterprise and multisite environments utilizing hosting platforms such as Acquia Cloud Next, and supporting tools and frameworks (PHP and object-oriented programming, Single-Directory Components, Angular, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js, Node.js, bitbucket)
• Experience with DataLakes and data warehousing architecture and implementation, including MPP, data streams, hands on experience with source to target mappings and developing ETL code.
• Technology or platform certifications (e.g. AWS, Microsoft)
• Experience with advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations
• Understanding of big data and real time streaming analytics processing architecture and ecosystems

Responsibilities

• Define, document, and deliver current states, target states, and initiative-based architectures to drive modernization of digital experience, correspondence, connectivity, exchange services, and shared data platforms.
• Work collaboratively with other architects, software engineers, and business product owners in an agile environment.
• Actively contribute to the engineering community as advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the software development lifecycle.
• Recommend the selection and integration of data related tools, frameworks and applications required to expand our platform capabilities.
• Recommend and implement best practices for the management of enterprise data, including master data, reference data, metadata, data quality, and lineage.
• Design robust, reusable and scalable data driven solutions and data pipeline frameworks to automate the ingestion, processing and delivery of structured and unstructured batch and real-time streaming data.
• Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the field; rapidly grasp new technologies to support the environment and contribute to project deliverables.
• Act as lead and mentor on technical components of strategic projects

Benefits

• Compensation
• Benefits
• Competitive Pay
• Bonus for Eligible Employees
• Benefits Package
• Pension Plan
• 401k Match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Insurance
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Employee Discounts
• Career Training & Development Opportunities
• Health and Work/Life Balance Benefits
• Paid Time Off starting at 160 hours annually for employees in their first year of service.
• Ten (10) paid holidays per year (typically mirroring the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) holidays).
• Be Well Company holistic wellness program, which includes Wellness Coaching and Reward Dollars
• Parental Leave – fifteen (15) days of paid parental leave per calendar year to eligible employees with at least one year of service at the time of birth, placement of an adopted child, or placement of a foster care child.
• Adoption Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Back-Up Care Program
• PTO for Volunteer Hours
• Employee Matching Gifts Program
• Employee Resource Groups
• Inclusion and Diversity Programs
• Employee Recognition Program
• Referral Bonus Programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees