Sr. Architect - Hybrid (Raleigh or Jersey City)

Job Summary

The Arch Insurance Technology team is responsible for solving human, technology, and business challenges through innovative solutions. The Sr. Architect, internally known as Domain Architect, plays a key role in driving technology strategy and technical solutions across a domain comprising multiple products and systems.

Essential Characteristics

• Demonstrated ability to develop others, especially in solution and technical architecture.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; adept at tailoring messages based on audience level.
• Solution-oriented with a strong sense of technical curiosity.
• Able to translate complex technical concepts into understandable language.
• Able to repurpose existing solutions for new challenges.
• Understands cross-domain execution of processes and tasks.
• Strong listener, able to convert pain points into practical solutions.
• Results-driven; able to work independently and collaboratively.
• Proactive mindset with a hands-on approach to driving business value.
• Passion for learning new technologies and market trends to inspire innovation.

Core Responsibilities

• Leadership, People & Talent:
• Define and support the establishment of KPIs/OKRs to measure domain success from a technology perspective.
• Develop technology roadmaps that align with enterprise and domain strategy, including modernization and technical debt reduction.
• Prepare and present solution design options, highlighting trade-offs.
• Promote an enterprise mindset, collaborating with architects and security teams to ensure cohesive, efficient solutions.
• Identify interdependencies across products and communicate impacts effectively.
• Stay on top of market and tech trends; assess and prioritize based on business value.
• Define ROI and identify the competitive edge of emerging technologies.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to uncover challenges and co-design effective solutions.
• Strategy:
• Develop technology roadmaps that align with enterprise and domain strategy, including modernization and technical debt reduction.
• Prepare and present solution design options, highlighting trade-offs.
• Promote an enterprise mindset, collaborating with architects and security teams to ensure cohesive, efficient solutions.
• Identify interdependencies across products and communicate impacts effectively.
• Stay on top of market and tech trends; assess and prioritize based on business value.
• Define ROI and identify the competitive edge of emerging technologies.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to uncover challenges and co-design effective solutions.
• Technical Management (Delivery, Product, Operations):
• Maintain up-to-date technical and architectural documentation in line with enterprise standards.
• Monitor and report on the domain’s technical health and maturity.
• Recommend consistent, best-practice technical solutions aligned with business outcomes and industry standards.
• Advocate for tech debt reduction, platform security, and compliance.
• Guide and support technical proofs of concept and evaluations.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Computer Science, or related field — or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of related technical and strategic experience.
• Preferred Technical Experience: Application and service modernization, including: Cloud technologies, Microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, DevSecOps, Containerization.
• Domain Knowledge: Experience in insurance and/or financial services is a strong plus.

Pay Information

For individuals assigned or hired to work in the location(s) indicated below, the base salary range is provided. Range is as of the time of posting.

• Raleigh: $114,800 - 178,214/year
• Jersey City: $144,100 - $223,693/year

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package that includes multiple medical plans plus dental, vision and prescription drug coverage; a competitive 401k with generous matching; PTO beginning at 20 days per year; up to 12 paid company holidays per year plus 2 paid days of Volunteer Time Offer; basic Life and AD&D Insurance as well as Short and Long-Term Disability; Paid Parental Leave of up to 10 weeks; Student Loan Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement, Backup Child and Elder Care; and more.