What are the responsibilities and job description for the Domain Managing Architect-Digital, Distribution and Customer Service position at Horace Mann?
This is not a remote position. The position will be located in Springfield, IL or Addison, TX and will be hybrid.
The Domain Managing Architect – Digital, Distribution and Customer Service will leverage Architectural discipline, frameworks and tools in the best interest of Horace Mann.
- Creates architectural and design artifacts to effectively communicate technology solutions.
- Maintains Current, Future, Transitional state diagrams.
- Develops conceptual, logical, and physical level diagrams.
- Formulates and reviews high-level design documents.
- Guides project and program efforts to enterprise patterns and solutions.
- Ensures technology decisions are in the best interest of Horace Mann over individual areas.
- Proactively partners with business, application development, infrastructure, integration, networking, data, and security on solution design, development, and support.
- Serves as trusted technical advisor to IT and Business leadership.
- Ensures solutions and associated documentation are consistent with Horace Mann and industry best practices.
- Brings disparate groups to consensus on technical decisions.
- Serves as a key contributor in planning, roadmap development, and program implementation.
- Possesses knowledge of current and evolving industry technologies
- Communicates complex technical concepts to a wide range of audiences in simple, understandable terms.
- Leads analysts performing business architecture, design, development, and quality assurance tasks to efficient processes and tools.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for continued maturation of Architecture Discipline at Horace Mann. Includes guiding and mentoring the Architecture community in the maturation journey.
- Acquires, promotes, and enables use of architecture meta-data tools and processes.
- Guides programs and projects to enterprise compliant technology solutions. Defines and documents architectural decisions.
- Creates or oversees creation of architecture artifacts to support budgeting, planning, development, and support for technology solutions.
- Collaborates with Solution Delivery Partners, architects, and technical leads on creating and maintaining the current, target, and transition architecture.
- Leads or ensures high level design is created and maintained for systems and material sub-systems.
- Develops Architecture IT policies, standards, and processes at the direction of the Chief Architect and CIO.
- Identifies opportunities for new enterprise building blocks and patterns. Directs architects and technical leads to develop and consume defined building blocks and patterns.
- Sets direction for creating integration services and reusable patterns to integrate Horace Mann applications and systems.
- Sets direction and guides architects and technical leads on aligning application development to architectural best practices.
- Executive leadership relies on expertise across multiple business and/or technical domains.
- Provides best practices guidance on evaluation and selection of purchased products for use at Horace Mann.
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in related technical field or equivalent experience.
- 6-9 years of related experience.
- Proficient working within an Enterprise Architecture framework (e.g. TOGAF).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with technical writing.
- Strong analytical, planning, organizational, and technical skills.
- Expert in creating architectural artifact diagrams. (VISIO, draw.io).
- Sets direction on best practices for diagram development and storage.
- Possesses in-depth knowledge of project management and software development practices.
- Brings broad and deep knowledge of development languages, data solutions, integration, infrastructure, networking, and security.
- Can effectively lead across all organizational areas.
- Can bring disparate groups to consensus on technical issues.
- Experience performing risk management.
- Experience preparing Executive Level recommendations.
- Experience with digital transformation
- Experience in the Customer and Producer/Agent business domains
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