Solution Architect

Sompo International • Conshohocken, PA

17h • $165,000 - $175,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Sompo is hiring a Solution Architect to design and govern end-to-end technology solutions that align with business objectives, architecture standards, security requirements, and operational needs. The role works across business and technology teams to translate requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, and supportable solutions spanning business processes, application architecture, integration, data flows, infrastructure, security, and support models. The position supports effective decision-making, reduces delivery risk, and helps ensure implemented solutions are fit for purpose and aligned with enterprise standards.

The position may be based at Sompo’s Purchase, NY; Midtown NYC; Morristown, NJ; Charlotte, NC; Conshohocken, PA; Mt. Juliet, TN; or Lubbock, TX office. Sompo describes its work environment as collaborative and focused on employee development and long-lasting careers.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end technology solutions across insurance, reinsurance, and corporate business applications, integrations, data, infrastructure, and security domains.
• Translate business goals, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements into solution architectures and design artifacts.
• Develop high-level and detailed solution designs defining system components, interfaces, dependencies, and operational considerations.
• Ensure solution designs address scalability, resilience, performance, maintainability, and supportability.
• Define solution options, evaluate trade-offs, and recommend approaches based on business value, technical fit, cost, and risk.
• Provide project teams with an approach for developing project plans and schedules, and support project planning.
• Ensure solution architecture aligns with enterprise architecture standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, project managers, engineers, and vendors to understand objectives and shape solution approaches.
• Facilitate architecture and design discussions across teams to align on scope, approach, and implementation decisions.
• Provide architectural input to project initiation and planning, including estimates, dependencies, risks, and delivery considerations.
• Provide architectural leadership throughout the project lifecycle, from ideation through implementation and transition to support.
• Work with development, infrastructure, security, QA, and operations teams to ensure designs are understood and implemented effectively.
• Review solution implementations for adherence to approved architecture and design principles.
• Participate in architecture governance, including design reviews, approvals, and technical assurance activities.
• Ensure solutions comply with security, regulatory, risk, and data governance requirements.
• Identify architectural risks, issues, and dependencies and recommend mitigation plans.
• Promote reuse of existing platforms, services, and patterns to reduce complexity and improve consistency.
• Contribute to architecture principles, standards, reference models, and best practices.
• Produce and maintain architecture documentation, including solution diagrams, design decisions, interface specifications, and transition considerations.
• Present solution designs and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences, including governance forums and senior stakeholders.
• Document assumptions, constraints, and key decisions to support transparency and traceability throughout delivery.

Benefits

• Two medical plans, including a Traditional PPO and a Consumer Driven Health Plan with a Health Savings Account and employer contribution
• Pharmacy benefits with mail order options
• Dental benefits, including orthodontia benefits for adults and children
• Vision benefits
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Company-paid Life and AD&D benefits, with optional supplemental coverage for employees, spouses, and children
• Company-paid disability benefits with salary continuation payments
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with employer contributions
• Paid-time-off programs and company-paid holidays
• Parental leave benefits
• Adoption assistance program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tax-Free Commuter Benefit
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional qualification benefits
• Incentive awards as part of total compensation for regular, full-time employees

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed