Serve as a senior technical leader shaping architecture strategy, roadmaps, and standards across product teams and portfolios. Guide cross-system integration, cloud-native and distributed designs, governance, risk management, and operational resiliency. Mentor architects, lead architecture reviews, influence enterprise technology decisions, and align technology investments with business priorities.
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Take the next step in your journey at Inspira Financial. Guided by our mission to enable better health and greater wealth, we help businesses and individuals thrive today, tomorrow, and into retirement by strengthening and simplifying the health and wealth journey.
Serving more than 7 million clients and representing over $62 billion in assets, Inspira partners with thousands of employers, plan sponsors, recordkeepers, TPAs, and other institutional partners to help the people they support plan, save, and invest for a brighter future. Through solutions including automatic rollover services, health savings accounts, emergency savings, and custody services, Inspira is focused on delivering better outcomes for all. Learn more at inspirafinancial.com .
Our values shape how we show up every day. We Lead with Heart by acting with compassion, empathy, and doing what's right; Cultivate Trust through integrity, transparency, and accountability; Aim Higher by never settling for what's expected and continually raising the standard; and Win Together by collaborating inclusively to achieve the best outcomes.
Our growth and culture haven't gone unnoticed -- we've been recognized on Crain's Fast 50 and Inc. 5000 for remarkable growth, and named to Built In's 2025 Best Places to Work and Gallagher's 2022 Best-In-Class Employer for our workplace culture and benefits.
Don't meet every single requirement? That's okay. We know growth comes from people who are willing to learn and challenge themselves, not just check every box. If you're energized and inspired by meaningful work, continuous development, and being part of a team that turns collective effort into real impact, we want to hear from you. We look forward to receiving your application.
Our office locations are designed to bring people together, foster collaboration, and build meaningful connections. While some roles are based at one of our office locations, remote status and role locations are subject to change, and relocation is not provided.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
The Lead Solution Architect serves as a senior technical leader responsible for shaping architecture strategy, guiding cross-portfolio technology decisions, and ensuring alignment between business objectives and technology investments. This role provides architectural leadership across multiple product teams, programs, and business capabilities while establishing standards, reusable patterns, and long-term roadmaps that enable scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
The Lead Solution Architect operates as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders, influences enterprise technology direction, mentors architects and technical leaders, and helps drive architecture consistency, governance, and engineering excellence across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture Strategy & Leadership
Enterprise & Portfolio Architecture
Governance & Standards
Risk Management & Operational Excellence
Organizational Leadership
Business & Stakeholder Engagement
Additional Interview Requirements:
As part of the evaluation process, candidates who progress beyond the initial screening will be required to complete a formal technical assessment to validate coding proficiency and technical competency.
Preferred Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Compensation & Benefits
$132,700-$175,000 per year
Take the next step in your journey at Inspira Financial. Guided by our mission to enable better health and greater wealth, we help businesses and individuals thrive today, tomorrow, and into retirement by strengthening and simplifying the health and wealth journey.
Serving more than 7 million clients and representing over $62 billion in assets, Inspira partners with thousands of employers, plan sponsors, recordkeepers, TPAs, and other institutional partners to help the people they support plan, save, and invest for a brighter future. Through solutions including automatic rollover services, health savings accounts, emergency savings, and custody services, Inspira is focused on delivering better outcomes for all. Learn more at inspirafinancial.com .
Our values shape how we show up every day. We Lead with Heart by acting with compassion, empathy, and doing what's right; Cultivate Trust through integrity, transparency, and accountability; Aim Higher by never settling for what's expected and continually raising the standard; and Win Together by collaborating inclusively to achieve the best outcomes.
Our growth and culture haven't gone unnoticed -- we've been recognized on Crain's Fast 50 and Inc. 5000 for remarkable growth, and named to Built In's 2025 Best Places to Work and Gallagher's 2022 Best-In-Class Employer for our workplace culture and benefits.
Don't meet every single requirement? That's okay. We know growth comes from people who are willing to learn and challenge themselves, not just check every box. If you're energized and inspired by meaningful work, continuous development, and being part of a team that turns collective effort into real impact, we want to hear from you. We look forward to receiving your application.
Our office locations are designed to bring people together, foster collaboration, and build meaningful connections. While some roles are based at one of our office locations, remote status and role locations are subject to change, and relocation is not provided.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
The Lead Solution Architect serves as a senior technical leader responsible for shaping architecture strategy, guiding cross-portfolio technology decisions, and ensuring alignment between business objectives and technology investments. This role provides architectural leadership across multiple product teams, programs, and business capabilities while establishing standards, reusable patterns, and long-term roadmaps that enable scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
The Lead Solution Architect operates as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders, influences enterprise technology direction, mentors architects and technical leaders, and helps drive architecture consistency, governance, and engineering excellence across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture Strategy & Leadership
- Define and evolve architecture roadmaps, target-state architectures, and strategic technology direction for one or more business domains.
- Translate business strategy into practical technology strategies, architectural capabilities, and implementation roadmaps.
- Provide architectural leadership across multiple concurrent initiatives, ensuring solutions align with enterprise objectives and architectural principles.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and vendor capabilities to identify opportunities and risks.
Enterprise & Portfolio Architecture
- Guide architecture decisions that span products, platforms, integrations, data domains, and shared services.
- Resolve architectural conflicts, competing priorities, and cross-team design tradeoffs.
- Ensure solutions support long-term business goals while balancing cost, risk, complexity, and delivery objectives .
- Lead architectural planning for modernization, platform evolution, technical debt reduction, and operational resiliency.
Governance & Standards
- Establish and maintain architecture standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and decision frameworks.
- Lead architecture reviews and governance activities for strategic initiatives and high-impact technology decisions.
- Promote consistency, reusability, supportability, and security across the technology landscape.
- Drive use of architecture decision records (ADRs), standards, and documentation practices.
Risk Management & Operational Excellence
- Identify and proactively address architectural risks, dependencies, constraints, and systemic weaknesses.
- Ensure solutions appropriately address security, compliance, privacy, resiliency, recoverability, scalability, and operational support requirements.
- Partner with security, infrastructure, operations, and engineering teams to ensure alignment with enterprise controls and operational standards.
- Contribute to disaster recovery, business continuity, and platform resiliency planning.
Organizational Leadership
- Mentor Solution Architects, technical leads, and engineering teams on architecture practices and decision-making.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.
- Lead architecture communities of practice and contribute to architecture capability development across the organization.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders.
Business & Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with product, engineering, security, infrastructure, data, and business stakeholders to align technology investments with business priorities.
- Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Influence strategic decisions through analysis of benefits, risks, constraints, and tradeoffs.
- Support portfolio planning, investment decisions, and long-range technology strategy discussions.
Additional Interview Requirements:
As part of the evaluation process, candidates who progress beyond the initial screening will be required to complete a formal technical assessment to validate coding proficiency and technical competency.
Preferred Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science , Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, or related technical leadership roles
- Demonstrated success leading architecture across large-scale, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple systems, teams, and business domains
- Deep understanding of application architecture, integration patterns, APIs, event-driven architectures , distributed systems, data architecture concepts, and cloud-native design principles
- Experience establishing architecture governance processes, standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns
- Experience designing and governing solutions on modern cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure
- Strong understanding of security, compliance, resiliency, observability, and operational readiness practices
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and influence skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry
- Experience influencing enterprise technology strategy and multi-year roadmaps
- Experience mentoring architects and leading architecture communities of practice
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks, architecture repositories, and capability-based planning approaches
- Relevant cloud, architecture, security, or integration certifications
Compensation & Benefits
$132,700-$175,000 per year
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