Selective Insurance Group-posted 4 months ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Hybrid • Hartford, CT
1,001-5,000 employees
Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

Selective is seeking a Solution Architect to support business objectives and technology advancement within our key organizational verticals. They will provide technical oversight to ensure that individual software projects adhere to the organization's business strategy, enterprise architecture, and application development methodologies. They will apply thought leadership in the areas of modernization, technology advancement, solution design, Cloud adoption, and DevOps. They will be responsible for highly technical consulting and leadership for software design, best practices, and development technologies. They will also advise IT leadership on technical solutions and the technical talent of development teams.

  • Designs application solutions and identifies design patterns
  • Maintains and publishes graphical design diagrams and relevant architecture artifacts
  • Understands the enterprise applications architecture design and development best practices
  • Applies these practices to application solutions and evangelizes them with development teams
  • Mentors staff in application architectures and standards
  • Acts as a strategic thinker, thought leader, internal consultant, advocate, mentor, and change agent for application architecture within development teams
  • Works closely with the Enterprise Architecture area on design methodologies, design reviews, defining best practices, and contributes to conventions and strategies
  • Receives technical mentoring from the enterprise architecture area on how to apply strategic thinking and plan for the future state
  • Works with delivery managers to balance rapid delivery of business solutions with sound technical solutions
  • Provides architectural guidance on cloud migration of existing applications and adoption of native cloud services where practical, to enhance system scalability, resilience, and performance
  • Evaluates and recommends cloud services that best suit the organization's needs
  • Advises delivery team leadership on technical solutions and on development team member competencies, skills, and overall productivity
  • Assists with the technical evaluation of packaged business solutions and designs any required custom system integration.
  • Proven experience as a Solution Architect or similar role in software development
  • Strong understanding of application architecture design and development best practices
  • Experience with cloud services and cloud migration strategies
  • Knowledge of DevOps practices and methodologies
  • Excellent communication and mentoring skills
  • Ability to think strategically and provide thought leadership in technology advancement.
  • Experience with specific cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
  • Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
  • Certifications in relevant technologies or architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, AWS Certified Solutions Architect)
  • 401k
  • health insurance
  • dental insurance
  • flexible scheduling
  • professional development
  • paid holidays
  • tuition reimbursement
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