Solution Architect

The Hartford · Hartford, CT · 2 wk ago

HybridInformation Technology$132k–$197k/yrFull-time

Job Details

The Hartford is seeking a Solution Architect to join the Small Business IT team.

About the role

Transformative, customer-centric Solution Architect to build and scale Small Business digital experiences from quote-to-bind-to-service. Design solutions that power Portfolio modernization, invest agenda, and emerging tech outcomes.

Responsibilities

Establish and drive clear, effective, and innovative solution designs aligning to The Hartford’s reference architectures, blueprints, and business and IT strategies across Digital properties, with a focus on AI and strategic thinking.
Translate strategy into end-to-end solution designs spanning mobile, responsive web, APIs, microservices/micro-frontends, data, and cloud infrastructure.
Produce option analyses and decision records balancing strategic alignment, security, reliability, complexity, and cost.
Design solutions leveraging SaaS and Native Cloud architectures and services, focusing on rationalizing and modernizing assets.
Advance digital identity and zero-trust patterns across experiences; ensure alignment with enterprise security standards.
Partner with value streams on roadmaps and increments; ensure designs meet non-functional expectations and are operable (telemetry, SLOs, runbooks).
Evaluate and land emerging Technologies where it demonstrably improves outcomes.
Align to architecture governance: reviews, permits to build, conformance checks, and pragmatic exceptions when warranted.

Requirements

5 – 8 years of experience in solution architecture, application architecture, or senior engineering roles within a large-scale enterprise environment.
Proven Small Commercial Industry Experience
Demonstrated impact designing cloud-native solutions (AWS/Google), APIs and integration patterns including: Microservices and service oriented architectures, event driven and API based integration patterns (SOAP, REST)
Hands-on experience applying GenAI/ML to production use cases; familiarity with agentic architectures, RAG, semantic search, embedding models and LLMs.
Expertise with digital identity/CIAM and modern auth (OIDC/OAuth2) and aligning to enterprise security standards.
Experience developing or designing single-page applications utilizing contemporary frameworks such as Angular/React.
Experience designing and implementing cloud-based solutions utilizing Microservices or API-based integrations with a clear understanding of JSON, REST, and HTTP standards.
Clear understanding of cloud, hybrid cloud, and container deployment architectures including building cloud-ready applications and container orchestration systems.
Fluency in platform and product thinking, solution KPIs, reliability engineering, and cost management.
Strong written, verbal, and influence skills—comfortable engaging senior leaders and mentoring engineers across a matrixed org.
Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical experience

Qualifications

Cloud certifications and architecture certifications are strongly preferred.

Benefits

This role will have a Hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of working in an office (Columbus, OH, or Hartford, CT) 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday).

Pay

The listed annualized base pay range is $131,600 - $197,400.

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