No other company in our industry is supercharging the way they work and serve their clients like OneDigital. Fresh thinking has always been the core of OneDigital’s vision and growth strategy. It’s how we stand out in our industry, it’s how we stay competitive and resilient in a changing world. Most importantly, our innovative approach is helping more people do their best work and live their best lives. Innovation fuels our employee experience by making it easier to do your best work anytime, anywhere and from any device. And our tech-based products for clients are a game changer in our industry. If you thrive on change and innovation, OneDigital is the career choice for you.
Our Newest Opportunity:
Summary:
The Senior Enterprise Architect (EA) plays a critical role in shaping and advancing the organization's technology vision while working in close partnership with embedded Product Management teams aligned to each practice area. Reporting to the VP of IT Infrastructure, Operations & Enterprise Architecture, this role ensures that business-driven product initiatives—whether AI-enabled, platform-based, or vendor solutions—are delivered quickly without compromising enterprise standards, scalability, security, or architectural coherence.
As a trusted advisor to business stakeholders, Embedded Product Managers, IT Product Managers, and IT leaders, the Senior Enterprise Architect accelerates outcomes while protecting enterprise architecture. This role establishes the architectural guardrails and decision frameworks that allow teams to move fast while avoiding fragmentation, technical debt, and parallel platforms—ensuring the organization can innovate rapidly while scaling responsibly.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Architecture Strategy, Standards & Roadmaps
- Create and maintain enterprise architecture roadmaps, reference architectures, and implementation plans aligned to business and product strategy.
- Define and maintain architecture standards, frameworks, patterns, and technology policies that enable innovation while ensuring enterprise consistency.
- Provide architectural guidance that supports rapid product experimentation and delivery within approved enterprise guardrails.
Embedded Product Partnership & Business Collaboration
- Work closely with embedded Product Managers aligned to the organization's practices.
- Serve as a connector between business stakeholders, Embedded Product Managers, IT Product Managers, Enterprise Architects, and platform teams.
- Translate business needs into architectural options, tradeoffs, and implications.
Accelerate Outcomes While Protecting Enterprise Architecture
- Guide AI vs. platform vs. packaged product decisions.
- Lead build-versus-buy evaluations aligned to enterprise standards and roadmaps.
- Assess platform and capability fit before net-new or AI solutions.
Governance & Delivery Alignment
- Own and manage the Architecture Review Board (ARB).
- Work with requestors to shape ARB submissions.
- Embed architecture governance into product discovery and delivery.
Qualifications, Skills and Requirements:
Required:
- 10+ years of enterprise or solution architecture experience.
- Practical experience with AI-enabled solutions, including generative AI.
- Strong understanding of data architecture, governance, privacy, and security.
- Experience evaluating build vs. buy vs. platform decisions.
- Familiarity with Responsible AI principles.
- Excellent executive communication and presentation skills.
Preferred:
- Experience in insurance, brokerage, or financial services strongly preferred.
- 6–8+ years of experience across multiple disciplines including solution/technical architecture, application development, integration/middleware, information analysis, database management, or operations in a multi-tier environment.
- Strong understanding of multi-platform hardware and software technologies.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills; ability to communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to develop strong partnerships and influence across the organization.
- Ability to balance long-term ('big picture') and short-term technology perspectives in changing business situations.
Core Competencies:
- AI Architecture Literacy
- AI Use Case Discernment
- Enterprise Architecture Governance
- Product & Platform Thinking
- Data-Informed Decision Making
- Responsible & Ethical AI Enablement
- Strategic Systems Thinking
Education, Training and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field is required. An advanced degree (Master's or MBA) is a plus.
Your base pay is dependent upon your skills, education, qualifications, professional experience, and location. In addition to base pay, some roles are eligible for variable compensation, commission, and/or annual bonus based on your individual performance and/or the company’s performance. We also offer eligible employees health, wellbeing, retirement, and other financial benefits, paid time off, overtime pay for non-exempt employees, and robust learning and development programs. You will receive reimbursement of job-related expenses per the company policy and may receive employee perks and discounts.
To learn more, visit: www.onedigital.com/careers
OneDigital is an equal opportunity employer. Not only as a matter of standard, but to honor and celebrate our differences. We believe that the power of ONE starts with you. We are committed to cultivating and preserving a culture that celebrates diversity, insists on equity and inclusion, and connects us. Ensuring our people feel seen, valued, respected, and supported is fundamental to our core values and business goals.
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In short, we believe in hiring the most qualified applicant for the position, regardless of background.
If you have questions about our hiring policies and practices, we would be happy to discuss upon receiving your application. We hope to welcome you to OneDigital and look forward to hearing from you.
OneDigital understands the immense responsibility and opportunities provided by Artificial Intelligence. We utilize advanced Artificial Intelligence [AI] technologies to enhance our recruitment process. This includes using AI to filter candidates based on their qualifications and to rediscover potential candidates from our existing applicant pool. Our AI systems help us efficiently identify the best fit for our open positions, ensuring a streamlined and effective hiring experience. However, AI does not replace the humans in our process. If you have concerns about our use of AI, you may opt out where laws allow.
Thank you for your interest in joining the OneDigital team!
Skills Required
- 10+ years of enterprise or solution architecture experience
- Practical experience with AI-enabled solutions, including generative AI
- Strong understanding of data architecture, governance, privacy, and security
- Experience evaluating build vs. buy vs. platform decisions
- Familiarity with Responsible AI principles
- Excellent executive communication and presentation skills
- Experience in insurance, brokerage, or financial services strongly preferred
- 6-8+ years of experience across multiple disciplines including solution/technical architecture, application development, integration/middleware, information analysis, database management, or operations in a multi-tier environment
- Strong understanding of multi-platform hardware and software technologies
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills; ability to communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Demonstrated ability to develop strong partnerships and influence across the organization
- Ability to balance long-term ('big picture') and short-term technology perspectives in changing business situations
What We Do
OneDigital’s team of fierce advocates helps businesses and individuals achieve their aspirations of health, success and financial security. Our insurance, financial services and HR platform provides personalized, tech-enabled solutions for a contemporary work-life experience. Nationally recognized for our culture of caring, OneDigital’s teams enable employers and individuals to do their best work and live their best lives. More than 75,000 employers and millions of individuals rely on our teams for counsel and access to fully integrated worksite products and services and the retirement and wealth management advice provided through OneDigital Investment Advisors. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Atlanta, OneDigital maintains offices in most major markets across the nation. OneDigital has received the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award for Best Places to Work in 2023. For more information, visit onedigital.com.
