Technical Solutions Architect
Technical Solutions Architect
Unum is a company of people serving people. As one of the world’s leading employee benefits providers and a Fortune 500 company, Unum helps protect more than 22 million working people and their families in the event of illness or injury and offers professionals every possibility for growth. Whether we’re helping customers or building careers, we’re experts at creating the kind of advantages that help people reach their goals.
Join a winning team! Unum's Business Technology organization is made up of 1,400+ talented, forward-thinking IT and Business professionals. We value individual strengths, innovation, leadership, collaboration and strong partnerships. We offer defined career paths as well as on-going training and development opportunities. As an organisation, we contribute to the achievement of Unum's strategic goals through the delivery of smart, innovative technology solutions.
As a Technical Architect you will be joining an established Benefits team that design, implement and deliver enterprise scale C# .Net based software solutions to extremely high standards. In this role you will be responsible for designing and delivering quality technical solutions which are fit for purpose. Within the Architect role you will take ownership of the technical delivery, providing technical leadership through the entire life cycle. The job requires close interaction with Business Analysis, Development, QA, and Support teams leveraging Microsoft .Net and open source web technologies to develop and maintain the system at an advanced level, while bringing innovation and maintaining best practice through our environment.
Although we primarily use C# we always consider candidates coming from either Java or C++ backgrounds who are willing to migrate across to C#. Net.
Role / opportunity:
- Engaging with the Benefits business in a positive and collaborative way
- Requirement gathering, design, construction, testing and implementation
- Working with other Solution Architects / Technical Architects
- Defining solution concepts and architecture
- Creating saleable, resilient, secure, cost effective solutions
- Leading projects team through project life cycle
- Proactively offering advice, guidance and thought leadership to clients
The ideal candidate will be an experienced software developer with a deep appreciation of the value of agile, automated build, testing and one-touch deployment.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in a software development distributed environment.
- 2+ years as a Technical Architect
- .Net C# or Java equivalent experience essential
- Appropriate 3rd level qualification.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent Documentation skills
Unum offers competitive pay and excellent benefits. Come join us if you’re interested in working in an exciting and challenging environment for a company that is on the move!
