Horace Mann is a purpose-driven company that is passionate about educators. The Domain Managing Architect provides strategic architectural leadership across the Individual Supplemental & Group Benefits domain. This role leverages enterprise architecture disciplines, frameworks, and tools to ensure technology solutions align with the long-term best interests of Horace Mann.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain current, future, and transitional state architectures.
- Create conceptual, logical, and physical architecture models and diagrams.
- Formulate and review high-level design documents.
- Define, document, and govern architectural decisions across programs and projects.
- Develop and enforce architecture policies, standards, and processes in partnership with the Chief Architect and CIO.
- Identify and establish new enterprise building blocks and reusable architectural patterns.
- Set direction for integration services and enterprise-wide reusable design patterns.
- Guides architects and technical leads in aligning application development with architectural best practices.
- Provide best-practice guidance in evaluating and selecting vendor products and technology platforms.
- Lead risk identification and mitigation related to architecture decisions.
- Collaborate with Solution Delivery Partners, architects, and technical leads to maintain current, target, and transition architectures.
- Facilitate consensus across diverse technical and business teams.
- Serve as a key contributor to strategic planning, roadmap development, and major program implementation.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive and non-technical audiences.
- Prepare and present executive-level recommendations.
- Establish best practices for architecture diagram development, governance, and repository management.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field or equivalent experience.
- 6–9 years of relevant experience in architecture or related technical leadership roles.
- Brings broad cross-domain knowledge spanning enterprise and solution architecture, data platforms, integration, infrastructure, networking, and security to design scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise solutions.
- Experience working within an Enterprise Architecture framework (e.g., TOGAF).
- Fluency in modern architecture practices, including cloud-native, microservices, event-driven, and AI-enabled architectures.
- Proven experience leading legacy modernization and enterprise cloud transformation initiatives across complex technology landscapes.
- Ability to define and govern enterprise architecture standards, patterns, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps aligned with business strategy.
- Expertise in creating architecture artifacts and diagrams (e.g., Visio, draw.io).
- Collaborate with business leaders, IT leadership, and engineering organizations to translate strategic objectives into scalable technology solutions.
- Experience in risk management and executive-level presentations.
- Demonstrated ability to lead across organizational boundaries and drive consensus.
- Experience in the Insurance sector (Property & Casualty (P&C) and Life & Retirement (L&R) domains, including underwriting, policy administration, claims and billing) is strongly preferred.
Pay Range:
- $124,200.00 - $175,800.00
Salary is commensurate to experience, location, etc.
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Horace Mann was founded in 1945 by two Springfield, Illinois, teachers who saw a need for quality, affordable auto insurance for teachers. Since then, we’ve broadened our mission to helping all educators protect what they have today and prepare for a successful tomorrow. And with our broadened mission has come corporate growth: We serve more than 4,100 school districts nationwide, we’re publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: HMN) and we have more than $12 billion in assets.
We’re motivated by the fact that educators take care of our children’s future, and we believe they deserve someone to look after theirs. We help educators identify their financial goals and develop plans to achieve them. This includes insurance to protect what they have today and financial products to help them prepare for their future. Our tailored offerings include special rates and benefits for educators.
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Horace Mann was founded in 1945 by two educators in Springfield, Ill., who believed teachers deserved affordable auto insurance. Originally called the Illinois Education Association Mutual Insurance Company, our name was changed to honor the father of the American public education system, Horace Mann. We are proud to share his name. At Horace Mann, the hard work, commitment and dedication of our employees are the foundation of our success. And today we are the largest, national multiline insurance company dedicated to serving America’s educators and their families. Our purpose is to provide lifelong financial well-being for educators and their families through personalized service, advice, and a full range of tailored insurance and financial products. Through our professional agents and their staff, we offer insurance and financial products to the educational community across the United States.
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