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Solutions Architect

ICONMAUnited States🇺🇸United StatesPosted 17 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid Solutions Architect role offers significant growth potential by driving enterprise optimization and translating complex business needs into innovative architectural solutions within the health insurance sector. You'll thrive if you possess strong analytical skills and a passion for advancing domain strategies, making this an excellent opportunity to expand your expertise and impact.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Our client, a Health Insurance company, is looking for a Solutions Architect for their Reston, VA location.
 
Responsibilities:
  • Drives enterprise optimization by introducing capabilities (inclusive of all functions) for their domain of responsibility utilizing in-depth knowledge and expert skills to advance domain strategies.
  • Translates business needs for the domain into architectural solutions that meet performance, reliability and security expectations.
  • Applies enterprise roadmaps, principles, standards, and practices to drive their domain strategies and execution.
  • Leads preparation of domain architecture viewpoints and models depicting current, target, and interim states. Use current state viewpoints to identify and analyze pain points and opportunities (PPOs).
  • Lead advanced modeling and analysis to meet the strategic needs of the organization with respect to system, information, functional/non-functional needs, performance and security/regulatory requirements.
  • Create and utilize architecture patterns and ensure alignment with IT strategies and reference architectures.
  • Ensure target state alignment and integration across architecture domains.
  • Ensure upstream alignment / traceability to business needs via business architecture and downstream alignment / traceability with solution building blocks.
  • Leads the extension / enhancement of domain architecture strategies, standards, and guidelines.
  • Identify and support development of reusable domain patterns.
  • Leads design, engineering and implementation of assets for internal use in solutions to improve solution quality; collaborate through implementation phase. Leads peer reviews and represent the architecture domain in briefings to the Architecture Review Board.
  • Oversees publishing and maintenance of viewpoints / work products in the architecture repository, ensuring they are organized, accurate, and accessible.
  • Disposition stakeholder comments / feedback received via project and non-project channels. Ensures that regulatory and compliance issues are addressed in solutions.
  • Leads collaboration with other teams (business and technical), key stakeholders, and partners to understand needs to maximize architecture impact and address technical limitations. Leads the evaluation/selection of a solution / product design that aligns with IT / Domain strategies, standards, and guidelines.
  • Leads research emerging domain trends to determine their relevancy and fit for the organization.
  • Leads vendor evaluations and selection process broadly; leads vendor evaluation and selection for domain-specific tooling. Represent the architecture domain in the drafting of RFIs/RFPs and the evaluation / scoring of vendor proposals.
  • Leads the development / enhancement of architecture domain methods and tools. Ensure the alignment / integration of domain architecture processes / deliverables with those of other architecture domains and SDLC disciplines. Leads development of domain related communications / education materiel for use with stakeholders and architecture / SDLC partners.
  • Leads domain assessments for most complex new / proposed projects for architecture impacts in support of annual planning, resource estimation, and alignment with IT strategy and enterprise architecture. Provide input to project, product, and enterprise technology roadmaps. Provide regular reporting on progress, issues, and opportunities related to architecture domain. (see domain specific roles and responsibilities for the ways these uniquely apply to each domain)
 
Requirements:
  • Bachelor''s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
  • Experience: 10 years Experience in Architecture Domain
    • In lieu of a Bachelor''s degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
 
Why Should You Apply?
  • Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
 

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