Solutions Architect
Sales & Distribution Technology Solutions Architecture Team Mission:
Leverage a combined deep understanding of business processes, technical patterns, and institutional knowledge to provide technical vision and guidance that enable the strategies, roadmaps and initiatives across Sales & Distribution Technology.
What success looks like:
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture to define and maintain the target operating model for delivery, including technologies, tools, and patterns
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture to further the strategic vision and application roadmaps
- Partner with Development Teams to translate architecture to design/code-level execution
- Serve as the technical liaison between MassMutual business partners, industry vendors, and distribution partners, while working very closely with both business and technical stakeholders
- Identify end-to-end technical solutions based on business needs that utilize a service-based architecture incorporating API's and Events for decoupling Digital and Backend application services.
- Capture future state technology vision in actionable, context-specific roadmaps
- Partner directly with the specific technology subject matter experts and technical leads to ensure architecture standards are adopted and solutions are aligned with enterprise Technology stacks.
- Architect Solutions are designed as reusable components (API's/ Microservices) that compose an overall solution that's flexible, scalable, performant and providing excellent user experience.
- Accountable for implementation of cross-functional solution architecture of all technologies in the Sales & Distribution technology stack
- Understand and proactively assess the current state of the technology and identify gaps and overlaps
- Ensure technologies are optimized, recommending investments and rationalization and if necessary, conducts technology assessment and selection
- Possess deep industry understanding and a point-of-view of the services provided and the technologies/products used in the industry in order to effectively make decisions on product usage and investment at MassMutual
What your days and weeks will include:
- Architecture/ Design Decisions & Technology Evaluations
- Industry Trends, Research, POC, Tools
- Creation and/or contributing to governed architecture artifacts, including Solution, Decisions, Strategies and Roadmaps.
- Design & Code Reviews
- Test Plan Reviews
- Production Support Transition Reviews
- Hands-on collaboration with Development team
- Attend and contribute to Architecture & Design Roundtables and Architecture Review Board meetings
- Project Team Meetings, status, planning, requirement reviews, etc.
The qualifications that are needed for this role:
- Minimum of 5 years development experience, capable of designing and implementing complex solutions
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in sales & distribution related business processes and technologies
- Skilled leading and/or participating in system design and architectural activities including technical requirement writing experience and ability to lead collaboration sessions for important design reviews and decisions.
- Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work in a team-based environment including employees, vendors, and third-party contractors
- Excellent mentoring skills and the desire to contribute to efforts beyond the scope of the day-to-day project work
- Proven ability to provide technical leadership and guidance to less experienced team members
- Experience in AWS cloud application design, development, and deployment
- Experience with event streaming and web service protocols like SOAP, REST, JSON or Kafka
- Experience with data development, including database design, modeling, ETL and scheduling
- Knowledge of insurance data, investment data and/or financial data
Additional skills that make you a great fit:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field preferred
- AWS Certifications
- 7 years design & development experience including frontend, backend, database and Integration technologies preferred
- Strong knowledge of data modeling and ETL development including development patterns, and best practices
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MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status.
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At MassMutual, we focus on ensuring fair, equitable pay by providing competitive salaries, along with incentive and bonus opportunities for all employees. Your total compensation package includes either a bonus target or in a sales-focused role a Variable Incentive Compensation component.