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Job Description:

Requirements Elicitation, Understanding, Analysis, & Management

• Understand the project's Vision and requirements, and contribute to the creation of the supplemental requirements, building the low-level technical specifications for a particular platform and/or service solution.

Project Planning, Tracking, & Reporting

• Estimate the tasks and resources required to design, create (build), and test the code for assigned module(s).

• Provide inputs in creating the detailed schedule for the project.

• Support the team in project planning activities, in evaluating risks, and shuffle priorities based on unresolved issues.

• During development and testing, ensure that assigned parts of the project/modules are on track with respect to schedules and quality.

• Note scope changes within the assigned modules and work with the team to shuffle priorities accordingly.

• Communicate regularly with the team about development changes, scheduling, and status.

• Participate in project review meetings.

• Tracking and reporting progress for assigned modules

Qualifications:

Do you want to be part of a collaborative Solution Architecture team?

Are you a solution architect who provides solution design for customers, designs products and services, provides architectural leadership & direction across the organization and looking for a challenging role to innovate, and define Guardian’s next-gen application platforms? Do you enjoy working with your leaders and colleagues in business and security teams to solve complex business challenges? Is a culture where “People Count,” “We Do the Right Thing,” and “We Hold Ourselves to Very High Standards” important to you? If so, Guardian is seeking a Solution Architect to define and build responsive application design and strategies that provides the agility to adapt to changing business and organization needs.

You are:

A self-starter who can work independently and has the ability to work cross-functionally in a matrixed environment and collaborate closely with business partners, application architects, engineers, & developers across the organization to ensure achievement of Business and IT goals and objectives.

You have:

· Bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline preferred, Master’s degree desirable.

· Minimum of 7 years’ experience in design, development and implementation software architecture and technology solutions

· Strong experience leading projects in Enterprise solutions design and implementation, architectural models and frameworks, utilizing SAFe/Agile methodologies.

· Demonstrated experience in AWS, other cloud Platforms, Middleware technologies such as event streaming, event driven architecture, applying security design/principles, Java, J2EE frameworks, Workflow Systems, DevSecOps tools, Tomcat, SpringBoot

· Strong knowledge of Enterprise Databases, Middleware, Micro-services, Web services, RESTful API’s, Application development platforms, High Availability designs and technologies

· Extensive systems integration experience in a diverse multi-platform environment

· Excellent written and verbal communications; effective interpersonal skills; strong formal presentation abilities

· Knowledge and Experience in Insurance and Investment Technologies is a plus.

· AWS Cloud Certification about be desirable

You will:

· Influence – Work closely with Business and Applications architects to ensure documented prescriptive blueprints and security best practices are followed and enforced during app design and implementation.

· Communicate – convey complex issues to diverse audiences, orally and in writing, in a manner that is easily understood and actionable. Ability to communicate equally well with technical and non-technical personnel.

· Collaborate – Participate in planning and designing of the IT Solutions in alignment to business and organization objectives. Collaboratively work with Subject matter experts from different domains including security, Cloud, network, and other architecture domains to design the final solution.

· Adapt – adjust to new, different, or changing circumstances while still ensuring that the overall objective is achieved.

· Understand

o Business Architecture – application of architecture principles and techniques to the design of business operations, including business capabilities and business processes, people, technology, and information that enable them.

o Service Architecture – organization and design of the resources (human, technical and otherwise) that are required for the operation of an IT or business service.

o Information Architecture – the definition, design, and delivery of an architecture that improves the attainability and usefulness of information in the enterprise, such that knowledge workers can locate, transform, analyze, and communicate information to support effective decision-making.

o Integration Architecture – design methods and protocols for communication and interoperability between disparate information systems.

o Application Architecture – Architect and design new cloud and distributed solutions as well refactor existing solutions

· Model and Design – demonstrate ability to make choices and tradeoffs that drive optimal decisions through the depiction of concepts, relationships, constraints, rules, and operations in a given architecture or IT system.

· Project Governance – ability to review, manage, and ensure the adoption of decisions at the project level that are consistent with enterprise architecture principles, strategies, and standards.

· Architecture Documentation – Develops and upkeeps new standards and blueprints working in collaboration with other architecture teams

Location:

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

Gurgaon

Every day, Guardian helps our 29 million customers realize their dreams through a range of insurance and financial products and services. Our Purpose, to inspire well-being, guides our dedication to the colleagues, consumers, and communities we serve. We know that people count, and we go above and beyond to prepare them for the life they want to live, focusing on their overall well-being — mind, body, and wallet. As one of the largest mutual insurance companies, we put our customers first. Behind every bright future is a GuardianTM. Learn more about Guardian at guardianlife.com .