Head Architect, Applications
Enterprise Architecture:
The vision for the MassMutual enterprise architecture team is to build an industry leading EA function that creates alignment between technology and business strategy by guiding the process of planning and designing capabilities to maximize the value of IT and enable the company to make high impact, long term decisions. This will be accomplished through architecture strategies, blueprints and road maps that standardize technology stacks and create engineering speed and agility through the innovative use of data science, data analytics, cloud and API’s.
Position Summary:
The Head Architect, Applications will lead a team responsible for defining and maintaining enterprise application architecture design and integration patterns as well as application development standards and best practices for DevOps, software engineering and API’s. This role will also be responsible for application architecture road maps and solution architecture guidance aligning development efforts to key technology strategies for cloud, data, devops and security. The head of application architecture will also be responsible for evaluating and benchmarking new technologies, drafting technical standards and publishing architectural artifacts enabling MassMutual to make high impact, long term decisions. This is a critical strategic architecture role to help drive digital transformation and create a competitive advantage for the company
Core Responsibilities
- Technical evaluations and benchmarking of core infrastructure technologies including cloud providers, network architectures, and storage platforms
- Specification and publication of standards around infrastructure configuration (network elements, servers, cloud environments)
- Thought leadership and active participation in conferences and research with strategic partners and academic institutions
- Define the technical platform strategy for enterprise infrastructure initiatives, such as data center relocations, network architecture changes and upgrades, etc.
- Partner with technology leaders to monitor execution
- Define cloud and network architecture strategies and approaches to advance enterprise initiatives
- Provide recommendations on system options, risks, cost/benefit analysis, and impact on cross-domain systems, business strategy, goals and processes.
- Partner with other enterprise architecture, business, and IT support teams to communicate, and collaborate on architecture strategies, standards, and direction.
Requirements
- 15+ years experience working with application development and integration technologies (Java, C++, javascript, html, CI/CD, cloud, TDD, microservices)
- 15+ years performing research and or large scale system design, and benchmarking
- Extensive experience of providing architectural direction to project development teams or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities
- Track record of designing architectural reference material
- Extensive experience of providing architectural direction to technical teams
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field required (M.S. or Ph.D. preferred)