Solution Architect

Role Overview

• Establish and drive clear, effective, and innovative solution designs aligning to The Hartford’s reference architectures, blueprints, and business and IT strategies across our Digital properties, with a focus on AI and strategic thinking.
• Develop architectural standards and designs for our customer-facing digital properties, incorporating a visionary approach and end-to-end solutioning with a big picture mindset.
• Align solutions to The Hartford’s reference architectures, blueprints, and business and IT strategies, ensuring they are plug-and-play and leverage APIs, platforms, and products.
• Ensure alignment with security standards, authentication, and authorization models, while integrating vendor products and services.
• Provide design supporting the migration of platforms and applications to the cloud, taking advantage of modernization and rationalization opportunities to reduce costs and promote a frugal architecture mindset.
• Design solutions leveraging SaaS and Native Cloud architectures and services, focusing on rationalizing and modernizing assets.
• Develop designs and integrations spanning both Mobile and Responsive Web, ensuring they are consumable across all roles.
• Participate with agile teams to ensure architecture standards are being maintained, promoting a platform and products approach.
• Frequently interact with peers and senior leaders as part of a cross-functional team, influencing business leaders and shaping business vision.
• Work within a matrixed environment, expanding knowledge of The Hartford’s lines of business and digital portfolio.
• Emphasize cost-conscious architecture and frugal architecture principles, ensuring that solutions are designed to be cost-effective and efficient.
• Foster a mindset of building platforms and products that prioritize speed to market and lower maintenance costs.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in solution architecture, application architecture, or senior engineering roles within a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Proven experience designing and delivering end-to-end technical solutions that support complex business requirements across multiple systems and teams.
• Demonstrated success working in matrixed, cross-functional organizations with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments and AI technologies, demonstrating the ability to design and implement solutions that leverage these technologies to drive business value and innovation.
• Strong expertise in application and system design, including: Microservices and service-oriented architectures, Event-driven and API-based integration patterns, Hands-on experience with integration technologies such as REST APIs, messaging platforms, streaming, and third-party/SaaS integrations.
• Solid understanding of data architecture at the solution level, including data modeling, storage selection, data flows, and data movement across systems.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and how to design solutions that leverage cloud-native services within enterprise guardrails.
• Experience defining and validating non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, availability, resilience, security, and compliance).
• 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.
• Experience with Micro Frontends (MFEs), demonstrating the ability to design and implement modular and scalable front-end architectures.
• Experience of working with Agile/SAFe development teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, and technical writing skills with the ability to effectively communicate solution recommendations and influence key stakeholders.
• Experience supporting solutions in regulated or compliance-driven environments (e.g., financial services, healthcare, payments, or large SaaS enterprises) preferred.
• Cloud certifications and architecture certifications are preferred.
• Candidate must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship. The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position.

Tech Stack

• Angular
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform
• Microservices
• React

Benefits

• short-term or annual bonuses
• long-term incentives
• on-the-spot recognition