Job Description

The Domain Managing Architect will leverage Architectural discipline, frameworks and tools in the best interest of Horace Mann, creating architectural and design artifacts, maintaining diagrams, guiding project efforts, ensuring technology decisions align with company interests, partnering with various teams, and serving as a trusted technical advisor.

Responsibilities

• Maturation of Architecture Discipline at Horace Mann
• Acquires, promotes, and enables use of architecture meta-data tools and processes
• Guides programs and projects to enterprise compliant technology solutions
• Creates or oversees creation of architecture artifacts
• Collaborates on creating and maintaining the current, target, and transition architecture
• Leads or ensures high level design is created and maintained
• Develops Architecture IT policies, standards, and processes
• Identifies opportunities for new enterprise building blocks and patterns
• Sets direction for creating integration services and reusable patterns
• Sets direction and guides architects on aligning application development to architectural best practices
• Provides best practices guidance on evaluation and selection of purchased products

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in related technical field or equivalent experience
• 6-9 years of related experience
• Proficient working within an Enterprise Architecture framework
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with technical writing
• Strong analytical, planning, organizational, and technical skills
• Expert in creating architectural artifact diagrams
• In-depth knowledge of project management and software development practices
• Broad and deep knowledge of development languages, data solutions, integration, infrastructure, networking, and security
• Experience performing risk management
• Experience preparing Executive Level recommendations
• Experience with digital transformation
• Experience in the Customer and Producer/Agent business domains

Benefits

• No benefits