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Sr Solutions Architect – Digital/Data Platforms (Azure & Databricks)

Voya Financial · Hartford, CT · 4 days ago
Engineering$161k–$186k/yrFull-time

About the role

The Sr Solutions Architect – Digital/Data Platforms (Azure & Databricks) is responsible for designing, developing, and governing enterprise-grade digital solutions that align with business strategy. This role blends deep technical expertise across digital, data, cloud, and AI architecture with strong product intuition, security awareness, and leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Define target-state digital architecture across application, data, integration, cloud, and security layers
  • Develop architecture roadmaps, technology blueprints, and modernization strategies
  • Lead API strategy, microservices architecture, and event-driven design
  • Design and optimize data platforms including databases, data warehouses, and data lakes (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
  • Define and implement Master Data Management (MDM), data models, metadata, lineage, and governance frameworks
  • Ensure data quality, integrity, scalability, and compliance (e.g., PCI, PII)
  • Lead cloud architecture, build, and migration efforts across Azure, AWS, or GCP
  • Design landing zones, networking, IAM frameworks, and cost optimization strategies
  • Implement cloud-native solutions including serverless, containers, and microservices
  • Provide architecture leadership for complex enterprise initiatives
  • Lead proofs of concept (POCs), evaluate emerging technologies, and guide engineering teams
  • Collaborate with product, security, compliance, and business stakeholders
  • Enable platforms supporting BI, AI/ML, and real-time analytics
  • Design and support multi-agent AI workflows, including planner/supervisor models, state management, routing, and agent interoperability (e.g., MCP, A2A protocols)

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field
  • 7–10+ years of experience in data engineering, architecture, or digital platform roles
  • Cloud computing (AWS/Azure/GCP)
  • MDM, Data modeling, warehousing, lakehouse, ETL/ELT
  • API design, microservices, event-driven architecture
  • Cybersecurity, IAM, compliance frameworks
  • DevOps, CI/CD, containerization
  • Database management (SQL/NoSQL)
  • Modern digital platforms (CMS, PIM, DAM, ecommerce)

Preferred Knowledge & Experience

  • Cloud architecture certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • TOGAF certification
  • Data governance or security certifications (e.g., CISM, CISSP, DAMA)
  • Experience designing enterprise AI and advanced analytics ecosystems
  • Exposure to emerging multi-agent AI architectures and frameworks

Qualifications

  • Strategic thinking & problem-solving
  • Communication with technical & non-technical stakeholders
  • Leadership & cross-functional collaboration
  • Project and time management

Skills

  • Customer Obsession
  • Transform with Automation/AI
  • Drive Higher Performance Through Our People
  • Execute on the Fundamentals

Benefits

Compensation: $160,500 - $185,500

Be Well. Stay Well. Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.

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