Solutions Architect

| Omaha, NE
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All Boston Mutual employees who interact with our policyholders, our producers, and our BML associates embrace the principles of our brand and service philosophy. We are all brand ambassadors. Both our words and our behaviors matter. We share a common service philosophy and pride ourselves in living the BML brand promises every day, one interaction at a time.

The following statements represent what Boston Mutual stands "FOR" - it is what makes us different and better in the market we serve.

  • We are FOR being a progressive life insurance company dedicated to offering financial peace of mind to working Americans and their families.
  • We are FOR providing practical and affordable products designed for those we serve.
  • We are FOR making it easy to secure a level of financial protection with a portfolio of products - beginning with life insurance - via enrollment and billing options at the workplace.
  • We are FOR providing a personalized customer experience to our policyholders and producers.
  • We are FOR acting in the best interests of our policyholders, producers, employees and the communities in which we live and serve - representing the goodness of mutuality in all we do.

We do our best to:

  • Demonstrate a desire to assist
  • Listen for understanding and respond empathetically
  • Explain things in a manner that is easy to understand
  • Be knowledgeable students of our business
  • Take full ownership to resolve questions and issues
  • Be professional, polite and courteous
  • Leave our customers and associates "better than where we found them"

As a Solution Architect at Boston Mutual, you enjoy working in a highly collaborative team-based environment, conceptualizing, developing, communicating and proposing solutions that will drive our growth and lead directly to top and bottom line results. You will work with the CIO and VP of the department in both a long-term strategy and tactical capacity to help solve critical needs and mission challenges. You will be responsible for providing a recommendation for the overall solution architecture and development and engaging business peers and subject matter experts, when required. The Solution Architect remains informed about industry trends, fin-tech products and innovations that will deliver process improvement and efficiencies, candidate areas for automation, and other innovative approaches to meet current and evolving business needs.

The Solution Architect is expected to:

  • Analyze the current state technology environment and identifies deficiencies, defines the principles, guidelines, standards and solutions patterns in collaboration with other IT leadership and architecture roles, and designs and directs architectural governance activities.
  • Collaboratively develop and recommend a solutions architecture and integration approach across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise strategy, business capabilities and business requirements.
  • Participate in cross-functional team, functional and project team efforts to evaluate technology solutions to meet the needs of the business and fit within the technology architecture vision of the organization.
  • Specifically leverage these strategies to provide technical vision and recommendations for enterprise wide customer and policy administration solutions.
  • Partner with IT leadership, business leadership and vendors as an advisor to align technical road maps with organizational strategy, and objectives.
  • Develops roadmaps for the evolution of the application portfolio from current state to future state.
  • Assist in developing and executing application hosting and migration strategies for systems both on-premise and in the cloud including the development of solution prototypes to prove out value and reduce risk.
  • Promote the use of a common, shared infrastructure to reduce costs and improve information flows.
  • Lead and mentor technical teams in best practices and develop strategies to implement across all current and future development.
  • Be an effective communicator who builds rapport with a variety of individuals and leaves a lasting impression on team members.
  • Trusted advisor to the company, collaborating closely with both the business and technology teams to ensure alignment in implementation with the intended solution design as well as desired business outcomes.

Qualifications

Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or related discipline.

Required Experience:

  • 8+ years software architecture and development experience designing and deploying scalable, secure on-premise and cloud-based solutions
  • 3+ years experience implementing and mentoring teams in agile software development practices
  • 3+ years professionally solving challenges in data structure design, development, implementation, integration, and ETL using Microsoft SQL Server
  • Data management: warehouse design, data modeling, migration, and integration, experienced in doing ETL data loads for mainframe files, JSON, XML, XSD and other data load formats.
  • Led large-scale vendor selection and integration efforts
  • Worked with both technical and business stakeholders to define requirements, creating detailed documentation and crafting estimates and roadmaps for implementation.
  • End-to-end solution and implementation definition and documentation.
  • Experience creating deployment strategies with accurate time estimates and risk assessments.
  • Demonstrated ability in project solution estimation and team structure definition
  • Demonstrates a solid understanding of delivery methodology and has led teams in the implementation of solutions according to plan
  • Professionally solved challenges for full-stack application design, development, and implementation with 5+ years experience with object oriented system design using Microsoft .NET/C#
  • Software development experience and familiarity with multiple programming languages such as: C#, Visual Basic, JavaScript, MSSQL, Python, etc

Preferred Experience:

  • 2+ years of insurance industry experience
  • Experience developing systems to support data analytics and business intelligence
  • Cloud migration planning and implementation
  • Cloud-native development practices
  • Cybersecurity
  • Network management
  • IT Operations
  • Experience implementing DevOps best practices such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Test Automation, Infrastructure-As-Code, Logging, and Monitoring

Certifications/Licensures (preferred):

  • Certifications in one of more major cloud vendor: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform


Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of Boston Mutual's associates are currently working remotely in accordance with our safety protocols. We are open to candidates that will be working fully hybrid going forward.

Boston Mutual is an equal opportunity employer. Boston Mutual is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, military service, veteran status, family status, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state laws. Boston Mutual is a drug-free workplace, and any offer extended will be contingent upon appropriate results of a drug test.

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