Sr. Solutions Architect (Remote)

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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.
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.
Join us on our journey as we work together to take on the complex and the everyday--turning collective effort into life-changing impact that enriches lives and helps build a better future. Learn more at inspirafinancial.com.
We believe in finding the best talent! While some roles are based at one of our office locations, remote roles can sit in any of the following states: AL, AZ, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, NC, NE, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA and WV. Remote status and role locations are subject to change. Relocation is not provided.
Employees within a 90-minute radius of our Oak Brook, IL headquarters are required to adhere to the company in-office work guidelines of 4 days per month minimum from 10 am to 2 pm (1 of the 4 days must be a Monday or Friday). This requirement does not apply to support specialist positions.
Don't meet every single requirement? That's okay. At Inspira Financial, we know growth comes from people who are willing to learn, challenge themselves, and aim higher. We value individuals who lead with heart, cultivate trust, and collaborate to win together. If you're energized by meaningful work, continuous development, and being part of a team that turns collective effort into real impact, Inspira Financial could be the right next step in your journey. We look forward to receiving your application.
Inspira Financial provides health, wealth, retirement, and benefits solutions that strengthen and simplify the health and wealth journey. With more than 7 million clients, representing over $62 billion in assets, Inspira works with thousands of employers, plan sponsors, recordkeepers, TPAs, and other institutional partners -- helping the people they care about plan, save, and invest for a brighter future. Inspira relentlessly pursues better outcomes for all with our automatic rollover services, health savings accounts, emergency savings funds, custody services, and more. Learn more at inspirafinancial.com .
We have been recognized for our remarkable growth on lists such as Crain's Fast 50 and Inc. 5000, and for our outstanding workplace culture and benefits with Built In's 2025 Best Places to Work and Gallagher's 2022 Best-In-Class Employer awards.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
The Sr. Architect will report to the Director, Architecture in the Technology Department. This role is responsible for working closely with engineers and teams on engineering choices and how they align to enterprise engineering and architecture vision. The incumbent will:

• Design, develop and maintain enterprise methodologies and techniques, including standards and guidelines for enterprise-wide use in technical management and systems of process development .
• Develop specifications for new products/services, applications, and service offerings .
• Provide technical oversight and architecture/engineering solutions to large, strategic, complex systems and application development projects, usually at the product level .
• Use professional concepts in developing resolution to critical issues and broad design matters.
• The role will be recognized as a thought leader and advance the craft of architecture and engineering within our organization.
• Design and develop architecture (integrated process, methodology , framework, software/applications, data, information, and technology) scalable solutions to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards.
• Partner with the Product Owners and engineering teams to align the technical design and strategy with the product roadmap.
• Responsible for prototyping complex, cross-platform business solutions to validate newer technologies.
• Review and ensure major architectural designs are consistent, maintainable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions.
• Participate with application and infrastructure design architects to provide guidance for development and releases.
• Hands on with architecture and engineering activities and is deeply embedded in the role of technology.
• Share expertise ensuring that teams are continuously improving and learning together to meet current and future engineering needs. Architecture and Design for large scale Azure hybrid cloud deployments with Azure Kubernetes Services and Azure Public Cloud.
• Design and provision Dev/Test/Prod Infrastructure-as-code using Azure CLI, PowerShell, Terraform.
• Define the architecture for high availability, data redundancy, data loss prevention, site recovery, and resilience.
• Define and implement the architecture for high throughput and scale with capacity planning and load balancing strategies.
• Design and implement provisioning of production-grade Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), Azure Container Registry, NGINX Ingress Controller, Service Mesh, etc..
• Implement the security architecture to ensure data security at rest and in transit, application security, key management, identity management, authentication, and authorization.
• Hands-on implementation of the log analytics and monitoring architecture using Azure Monitor, Azure Application Insights, and 3rd party tools such as Datadog.
• Hands-on automation of infrastructure, applications and software-defined networking through CI/CD pipeline, ARM Templates, Azure CLI scripts using Azure DevOps.
• Other duties as assigned.

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
Years of Experience:

• 5-7 years of relevant experience

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Preferred Certifications:

• AZ-400 - Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions, 70-533 - Azure Infrastructure Solutions, AZ-301 - Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies

Skills & Abilities:

• At least 3+ years of hands-on systems architecture experience designing & implementing highly secure solutions in complex and regulated environments
• At least 5+ years of software development experience with large enterprise level systems
• Azure CLI, Terraform and Powershell
• Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
• Container platforms and tools - Kubernetes, Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Service
• Azure Advanced Networking - Azure Virtual Networks, ExpressRoute, Site-to-Site VPN, NSG, App Service Environment, ASG, UDR
• Azure PAAS Services Security and Provisioning - Azure API Management Policies, Azure App Service, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL
• Identity Management - Azure AD, Azure AD B2C, Open ID Connect
• Secrets Management - Azure Key Vault, HSTS, SSL/TLS Ingress Control, Certificate management, Azure Security Center, Threat Detection, Container Security tools e.g. Twistlock
• Cloud Observability - Experience with Azure Sentinel, Azure Log Analytics, Operations Management Suite (OMS), SysDig, Application Insights
• Experience architecting at least one large scale cloud solution
• Previous experience designing non-functional attributes of enterprise solutions (e.g., security, scalability, reliability, performance, etc.)
• In depth knowledge of diverse and emerging technologies and new architectural concepts and principles
• In depth understanding of layered solutions and designs; in depth understanding of shared software concepts
• Experience developing software in Agile environments, including CI/CD patterns
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly
• Experience in DDD (domain driven design) and microservices
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills are a must
• Ability to balance the long-term big picture and short-term implications of decisions
• Demonstrate understanding of Azure Security solutions and best practices around Azure Sentinel, Azure Security Center, etc.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Compensation & Benefits
$135,000-$160,000 per year