IT Senior Solutions Architect (Data)

About the role

Erie Insurance seeks a Senior Solutions Architect – Data to translate near-term and long-term business needs into technical initiative solution options across multiple portfolios. This role provides enterprise-level context to the architecture team and leads discussions on complex initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the single point of accountability for architecture function to portfolio owner customers and technology leadership.
• Provides architectural guidance on initiatives of moderate to high complexity across multiple enterprise portfolios, while managing multiple customers with differing priorities on the organization’s most strategic initiatives.
• Collaborates with team members for technical validation during design and planning phases.
• Monitors large-scale project execution and considers and interprets architectural tradeoffs occurring during delivery. Escalates for appropriate context sharing and decision making, as necessary.
• Proactively enables portfolio owners to see technical debt clearly, provides appropriate context to inform plans to achieve elimination of technical debt in a comprehensive plan across multiple portfolios, delivery teams, programs, or projects.
• Serves as a mentor for other members of the team, builds an environment for analysts, engineers, architects, and other technology leaders to grow and have high impact.
• Directs and drives closure on investment decisions within the enterprise while also identifying cross-portfolio impacts on significant delivery initiatives.
• Serves as a subject matter expert for multiple portfolios, providing actionable recommendations via consultation services, adapted to stakeholder context, to technology leadership and organizational stakeholders.
• Collaborates with architects, portfolio owners, and other job families to achieve an enterprise view; provides project and program level views to project and program teams in context of enterprise strategies and directions with light supervision.
• Supports business agility through agile engagement across multiple delivery operations.
• Interprets business needs, assesses solution choices, applies technology, and provides project guidance within a long-term enterprise lens.

Requirements

• Minimum Educational and Experience Requirements: Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, Business, or related field, plus five years' related experience with at least three years specific to architecture; or Associate's degree in a technical field, plus seven years' related experience with at least three years specific to architecture; or High School Diploma plus nine years' related experience with at least three years specific to architecture, required.
• Additional Requirements: Skill Breadth: 2 or more domains/portfolios required. Designations and/or Licenses: AWS Solutions Architect – Professional Certification required, or other applicable certifications, preferred or willingness to obtain within 6 months of hire.

Qualifications

• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Ensures Accountability
• Instills Trust
• Nimble Learning
• Optimizes Work Processes (IC)
• Self-Development
• Values Diversity

Skills

• Hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise data architectures that promote data quality and consistency.
• Proficiency with Master Data Management (MDM) tools such as Informatica MDM, Reltio, SAP MDG, or IBM InfoSphere.
• Strong understanding of data integration, governance, metadata management, and data stewardship principles.
• Experience with data modeling, APIs, ETL design, and modern cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, or similar).
• Proven ability to collaborate across disciplines to define strategy and deliver scalable data solutions.
• Familiarity with AWS services such as S3, Glue, or Redshift is a plus.