Assistant Vice President, Solution Architect

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design and Architect a scalable, resilient technology ecosystem that powers the next stage of growth.
• Develop a transformation roadmap and strategy, focusing on integration, automation, process reengineering, and reuse.
• Oversee the portfolio of Enterprise Solutions applications, ensuring strategic alignment, lifecycle management, and optimization to support global business needs.
• Define and champion the API strategy and platform architecture to enable capability reuse across the portfolio.
• Establish architecture governance practices (reference architectures, decision records, and fitness functions) to ensure consistency at scale.
• Lead build vs. buy evaluations and recommendations.
• Provide regular updates to senior leadership, translating complex technical information into actionable insights.
• Gain deep knowledge of BHSI’s technology landscape, including international requirements, multi-currency, and regulatory complexities.
• Lead and motivate cross-functional, multi-disciplinary, globally distributed teams, including vendor partners, with a focus on achieving outcomes.
• Drive change management and adoption strategies to ensure successful implementation of new technologies.
• Collaborate with all key stakeholders to align technology initiatives with BHSI’s long-term goals, assume positive intent, and exhibit a growth mindset.
• Identify and remediate technical debt and vulnerabilities to reduce risk and maintain system reliability.
• Monitor and report on key performance indicators for finance technology initiatives, ensuring continuous improvement and measurable impact.
• Drive application portfolio rationalization and lifecycle planning to maximize value and reduce complexity.
• Maintain and optimize existing finance applications, tools, and platforms to ensure security, reliability, and availability.
• Evaluate and integrate AI/ML capabilities to accelerate modernization, automate workflows, and enhance decision-making.

Qualifications, Skills And Experience

• 15+ years of progressive experience in engineering and architecture, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role managing architecture direction for a large application portfolio.
• Deep technical knowledge across application, data, security, integration, and infrastructure domains.
• Deep expertise in the Microsoft stack and Azure.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale technology transformations.
• Deep expertise with modern architecture patterns, including event-driven, API-first, cloud-native, and composable architectures.
• Understanding of AI/GenAI integration patterns and their application to enterprise modernization.
• Experience with estimation, budgeting, and cost management for technology initiatives.
• High ownership mindset, demonstrating accountability, delivery focus, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Exceptional collaborator with a bias for action and a role up the sleeve mindset.
• Strong data-driven mindset, leveraging analytics for decision-making, performance measurement, and continuous improvement.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to construct and articulate a long-term vision for enterprise services and application portfolio management.
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving capability, with a focus on risk mitigation and operational excellence.
• Executive presence and ability to influence at all organizational levels, including senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated success in change management and stakeholder adoption for large-scale technology initiatives.
• Prior experience in insurance or financial services industry is a plus.