Lead Solutions Architect

About Us

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce and embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.

IT Architecture

The Lead Solutions Architect is responsible for designing, architecting, and supporting systems, services, and applications essential for enabling an agile digital enterprise. This role guides the architecture and design of technologies that underpin digital experience, correspondence, connectivity, exchange services, and shared data platforms, while contributing to web and data strategies, expanding capabilities, and providing technical leadership.

• Define, document, and deliver current states, target states, and initiative-based architectures to drive modernization of digital experience, correspondence, connectivity, exchange services, and shared data platforms.
• Work collaboratively with other architects, software engineers, and business product owners in an agile environment.
• Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the software development lifecycle.
• Recommend the selection and integration of data‑related tools, frameworks and applications required to expand our platform capabilities.
• Recommend and implement best practices for the management of enterprise data, including master data, reference data, metadata, data quality, and lineage.
• Design robust, reusable and scalable data‑driven solutions and data pipeline frameworks to automate the ingestion, processing and delivery of structured and unstructured batch and real‑time streaming data.
• Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the field; rapidly grasp new technologies to support the environment and contribute to project deliverables.
• Act as lead and mentor on technical components of strategic projects.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, engineering, MIS, or equivalent experience.
• Five years of collective experience in the application of architecture, enterprise roadmaps, analytics, cloud, IT strategies, innovation, SAFE, TOGAF, and data integration concepts and methodologies.
• Well versed in defining, recommending, promoting, and enforcing program and project solutions with expertise using SQL for data profiling, analysis, and extraction.
• Three years of experience in each of the following areas:
  • Architecting, building and administering complex architectures and technologies, and real‑time streaming analytics architectures in both on‑premises and cloud environments.
  • Architecting, building and administering large‑scale distributed applications.
  • Linux operations and development, including CLI, basic commands and shell scripting (Powershell, Bash).
  • Architecting scalable containerized applications with container orchestration framework.
  • Execution of Dev Ops methodologies and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.
• Attention to detail and results oriented, with a strong customer focus.
• Analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Technical communication skills.
• Prioritization skills to meet tight deadlines.
• The ability to work in a team environment.

• Leadership capability to effectively communicate with all levels of management.
• Software development experience in relevant programming languages (Spark, Java, Python, Scala, Node.js, SQL).
• Thorough knowledge of open‑API specification, REST, API designs, security and implementation.
• Experience in digital experience technologies (Drupal CMS) in complex enterprise and multisite environments utilizing hosting platforms such as Acquia Cloud Next, and supporting tools and frameworks (PHP, object‑oriented programming, Single‑Directory Components, Angular, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js, Node.js, Bitbucket).
• Experience with Data Lakes and data warehousing architecture and implementation, including MPP, data streams, source‑to‑target mappings and ETL code.
• Technology or platform certifications (e.g., AWS, Microsoft).
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