Solutions Architect II

Hagerty

2d • Remote

About The Position

As a Solution Architect II on our DIT (Digital Innovation Technology) Architecture team you will create software solutions that are well designed and take a long-term strategic view. By considering the impact of design choices today against an understanding of a software product’s strategic direction, our solution architects seek to limit future constraints and provide the correct amount of flexibility while delivering business value with timely releases. The team achieves this by placing business capabilities into Hagerty’s Technology Portfolio of Software Assets, by architecting software services, designing APIs, and maintaining clear bounded contexts between each. As excellent communicators and leaders within the organization, they ensure all audiences are aligned on why our software solutions are required, how they are implemented, and what they achieve. Ready to get in the driver’s seat? Join us!

Requirements

• You’re a talented communicator
• You meet people where they are and then build shared understanding
• Comfortable and effective explaining technical concepts to audiences of varying level and technical skill
• Lead and contribute to discussions around product design per business strategy
• Bias towards creating visual artifacts that represent contexts, designs, and shared understanding
• You enjoy learning and then sharing what you’ve learned with others
• You write effectively about how software works
• You have a breadth of experience building software
• Programming languages
• Deployment
• Databases/Persistence
• Patterns and anti-patterns
• You have a Fundamental knowledge of technology concepts
• API Design
• HTTP Communication
• ReST/RPC Styles
• Data movement-- polling, eventing, messaging
• Integration patterns and lifecycle
• Identity— Authentication and Authorization
• You have experience being in a visible senior role and want to collaborate with others
• You enjoy operating independently, and can concurrently positively impact multiple initiatives with competing priority
• You love discovering the actual problem that needs to be solved as much as solving it

Nice To Haves

• You’ve deployed and/or integrated software with the Duck Creek Insurance Platform
• You’ve read Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans
• You’re familiar with modeling tools such as C4
• When there’s no leader in the room, you tend to take the lead rather than wait
• You’re comfortable in front of audiences of all sizes
• You’ve written .NET code
• You’ve designed and released APIs with both ReST and RPC styles
• You love creating excellent API documentation with tools like OpenAPI

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain bounded contexts between software product domains in our Technology Portfolio
• Design and own inter-context communication specifications that serve the needs of the business now and in the future
• Elevate the communication of the enterprise around technology and how it serves our strategy
• Mature Architectural thinking at Hagerty

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees