Lead Global Architect - AI Solutions

Lead Global Solutions Architect

Enterprise Technology is a global organization within Transamerica. We provide dedicated application support to Transamerica and we bring all of Aegon's business units together through the use of technology. We provide the backbone - the infrastructure - for how everything works. We're creating the company's AI environment, building a flexible 'cloud experience' for internal hosting services, designing frameworks for data governance and management, and ensuring the security and stability the company's technology.

In short, we enable the business units to move more quickly and deliver to our clients in the best possible way. Whether customers are interested in insurance products or annuities or financial services, we're here to ensure they don't have to worry whether their information is safe.

The people we employ are incredibly diverse, both in terms of backgrounds and skill sets. There are over 1000 of us representing a dozen or so nationalities and located in the UK, the US, the Netherlands, Hungary, Spain, and Hong Kong. Our global teams are comprised of experts in areas such as application development, information security, infrastructure services, data & analytics, risk & controls, procurement, program management, and architecture.

With the breadth of functions within Enterprise Technology, individuals can pursue a wide variety of careers, and we have a focus on supporting employees' development. The most important quality in the people who join us is curiosity. A lot of what we do is problem solving, requiring colleagues to take what they know and apply it to new situations. We have many mature processes, but we're always looking for opportunities to improve, so we want people who are naturally inquisitive and confident enough to challenge the way we do things.

Technology is constantly, rapidly changing – we need you to help us continue to change with it.

Job Description

Summary:

The Lead Global Solutions Architect is responsible for the solution design, architecture, and support of systems, services, and applications that provide enterprise business capabilities, technology services, data, cloud, infrastructure, and AI solutions. This role works collaboratively with architects, engineers, and product owners to document solution architecture design for Cloud and On-Premises technology solutions, infrastructure, and tools. The Lead Global Solution Architect possesses strong technical domain knowledge in key areas relevant to our business and technical needs, ensuring the delivery of robust, resilient, and scalable technology solutions that align with our architecture principles and strategic objectives.

This role provides hands-on architecture delivery, critical insights, and guidance to enable standards-aligned technology solution delivery and project execution.

What You Will Do:

• Work collaboratively with enterprise and solution architects, software, data, cloud and security engineers, and business product owners to establish solution architecture designs for Cloud and On-Premises technology solutions, infrastructure, and tools.
• Construct architectural artifacts in support of robust, reusable, scalable, and secure technology solutions leveraging approved component architecture standards, architectural patterns, and reference architectures.
• Follow best practices for the creation and delivery of architecture artifacts, document and maintain architecture standards, facilitate architecture review board approval, and contribute to the architecture repository to enable architecture reuse within the enterprise.
• Serve as an architecture advisor and validator during the build, test, validate, deploy, and operate stages of the systems development lifecycle.
• Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the solution architecture field; rapidly grasp modern technologies to support the environment, evaluate emerging technologies for applicability to business challenges, and contribute to project requirements.
• Receive, provide, and address meaningful feedback regarding the quality of architectural artifacts produced by self or peers while embracing opportunities for…