Sr. Enterprise Architect – Portfolio

The next part of your journey is right around the corner — with The Standard.

A genuine desire to make a difference in the lives of others is the foundation for everything we do. With a customer-first mindset and an intentional focus on building strong teams across the nation, we’ve been able to uphold our legacy of financial stability while investing in new, innovative technologies that support the needs of our customers. Our high-performance culture focused on operational excellence thrives thanks to remarkable people united by compassion and a customer-first commitment. Are you ready to make a difference?

Job Summary

The Sr. Enterprise Architect - Portfolio plays an integral role in building a holistic view and charter of the company’s technology strategy, processes, and information technology roadmap. The Architect partners with both business and technology groups to ensure that the proposed technical solutions align with the company’s overall objectives, mission & vision, and develops plans to enable delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Works with Principal Enterprise Architect, Business, and IT leaders to define & develop domain or LOB future state architectures, roadmaps, and migration strategies as a basis for focusing IT activities to maximize business value and in support of business capabilities.
• Partners with business, IT leaders, other architects, and technology SMEs to elicit and translate ambiguous business and non-functional requirements into a scalable and adaptable architectural solution. Leads the design and modeling of tactical architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects. Provides technical leadership for programs or across a project portfolio. Ensures that business system development efforts comply with strategic architecture principles, standards, and models. 
• Works with peers and IT management to develop and maintain policies, standards, guidelines (guiding principles), reference architectures / patterns, decision frameworks, and metrics to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the company.
• Manages and facilitates architecture and technology decision processes to evaluate project proposals for architectural fit.
• Mentors and develops the next generation of architects and instill architecture thinking across the enterprise.

Skills and Background You’ll Need

• EDUCATION: A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. An advanced degree in Applied Mathematics, Data Science, Business Analytics, Statistics, Computer Science or related fields is preferred. 
• EXPERIENCE: 8+ years of experience with building enterprise architecture roadmaps (with EA methodologies such as TOGAF, Zachman etc. is preferred.) Experience architecting end to end business solutions and developing applications in an agile environment is required (in financial services industry preferred.) 
• Knowledge of different types of databases (NoSQL, Relational Data Stores, etc.), Data Architecture, and Data Science/Analytics is required (ADLS, HDI or Databricks is preferred). 
• Experience with cloud first architecture solution delivery experience (Azure preferred.)
• Knowledge of UML or any Modeling tool. Experience in or knowledge of Micro services architecture, Kubernetes containers.
• Knowledge of Java, Open JDK, .NET C#, Spark, Angular, HTML5 with Responsive Design, REST, API Gateways.
• Knowledge of Security principles, authentication, authorization and encryption.
• Experience in a multi-vendor and offshore model is a plus.

Key Behaviors of a Successful Candidate

• Driving Success – Sets goals that inspire others; demonstrates a high level of ambition to achieve outstanding results. Strong leadership and influencing skills with business and technical groups. Demonstrated ability to build alignment among various stakeholders.
• Improvement Mindset – Identifies the interrelatedness of work activities; targets important areas for improvement across business units/functions. Ability to “think big” and challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refresh and hype. Comfortable with ambiguity and willing to take principled bets on new technology.
• Winning Together – Makes decisions in partnership with impacted business units/function leaders with the goals of the organization in mind; acts in the best interest of the organization.

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We have built an enduring legacy of stability, financial strength and exceptional customer service through the contributions of the service-oriented people who choose to work at The Standard. To ensure we can attract and retain the best talent, when you join The Standard you can expect:

• A rich benefits package including medical, dental, vision and a 401(k) plan with matching company contributions

• An annual incentive bonus plan

• Generous paid time off including 11 holidays, 2 wellness days, and 8 volunteer hours annually — PTO increases with tenure

• A supportive, responsive management approach and opportunities for career growth and advancement 

• Paid parental leave and adoption/surrogacy assistance

• An employee giving program that double matches your donations to eligible nonprofits and schools

In addition to the competitive salary range below, our employee-focused benefits support work-life balance. Learn more about working at The Standard.

• Eligibility to participate in an incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program and plan. Any award depends on a variety of factors including individual and organizational performance.

Salary Range:

Standard Insurance Company, The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, Standard Retirement Services, Inc., StanCorp Equities, Inc. and StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc., marketed as The Standard, are Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status or any other condition protected by federal, state or local law. The Standard offers a drug and alcohol free work environment where possession, manufacture, transfer, offer, use of or being impaired by an illegal substance while on Standard property, or in other cases which the company believes might affect operations, safety or reputation of the company is prohibited. The Standard requires a criminal background investigation, employment, education and licensing verification as a condition of employment. All employees of The Standard must be bondable.