Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect

Job Type: Full-Time

Target Salary Range*: $140,000,000 - $180,000.

• This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary

The Senior Solution Architect is accountable for the business solution designs for key strategic

initiatives including (but not limited to) developing architectures that represent

business, applications/integration, data, infrastructure, platform, and security architectures. In this

role you will create solution architecture for key strategic initiatives including developing

architectures and runways that represent business, application/integration, data, infrastructure,

platform, and security architectures, partnering within Data, Digital, Analytics, and Technology

teams.

Accountabilities Include

• End to End Solution Architecture: Drives solutions from cradle to grave for a given enterprise-grade system or systems.
• Buy vs Build Analysis: Experience in performing Buy vs Build analysis based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis across the available options to provide a final recommendation based on the rationale.
• Architecture and design reviews: Contributor role in architecture design reviews within the Architecture community to drive modernization opportunities for the advancement of Aetna technology while keeping in mind the complexities of our IT landscape.
• Trusted advisor: Act as a trusted advisor to application, security, and platform teams, driving alignment on strategies and patterns.
• Application profile identification: Leverage technical expertise and domain knowledge to identify Aetna apps targeted for refactor and optimization for cloud.
• Proof of concept technology support: Contribute towards proofs-of-concept and technology deep-dives specific to partner technologies.
• “Whatever it takes” attitude to help clear technical roadblocks: Advise and assist Application development teams with technical roadblocks such as performance challenges within a solution.
• Cost optimization identification: Engage with appropriate stakeholders to recommend or assess opportunities to drive cost efficiencies aimed at simplicity, configurability and eventual elimination of technical debt associated with Aetna applications.
• Tech Debt: Manage tech debt within a given portfolio and develop solution proposals to reduce them.

• Thought leadership and mentoring
• Excellent communication
• Deep collaboration skills. Ability to work as a team player seeking alignment and being able to influence outcomes through hands-on demonstration of cloud capabilities.

• 5+ years of design/development experience
• 1+ years of hands-on cloud implementation experience