Senior Architect

Vermont Mutual Insurance•Montpelier, VT

About The Position

As a Senior Architect with 8–12 years of experience, you will lead the design of enterprise-scale solutions that drive digital transformation. You serve as a strategic advisor, shaping technology direction and ensuring architectural integrity across the organization. This role emphasizes cross-domain leadership, architectural governance, and long-term sustainability of technology investments.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
8–12 years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise systems, or technical leadership.
Deep expertise in cloud platforms, security, and enterprise integration.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver complex solutions.
Strong strategic thinking, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

Leads architecture governance activities, including design reviews, exception management, and architectural decision records.
Ensures architectural consistency, quality, security, and resiliency across multiple initiatives and domains.
Champions and evolves architectural standards, patterns, and best practices across the organization.
Shapes and influences domain- and portfolio-level technology roadmaps aligned with business strategy.
Provides strategic guidance on modernization, platform adoption, cloud strategy, and technical debt reduction.
Evaluates emerging technologies and recommends adoption paths that balance innovation, risk, and business value.
Ensures enterprise-scale solutions are designed with cohesive integration and data architecture principles.
Guides teams through complex integration scenarios, data consistency challenges, and cross-domain dependencies.
Partners with enterprise and data architects to address scalability, interoperability, security, and long-term sustainability.
Serves as a trusted architectural advisor to IT and business leadership.
Facilitates alignment across teams, resolving architectural conflicts and tradeoffs.
Mentors and coaches architects and engineering teams, fostering a culture of strong design, documentation, and collaboration.