Mutual Opportunities
Solutions Architect
Boston, Massachusetts; Springfield, Massachusetts; New York, New York
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Overview
A career with us means you’ll work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are at the foundation of what enables MassMutual to deliver on our purpose to help people secure their futures and protect the ones they love.
We embrace the idea that we all are stronger and better through our support for one another. We strive to create a culture where employees feel valued and are celebrated for who they are.
“Since our founding in 1851, mutuality has put our policyowners at the center of everything we do. At our core, we’re a company of people helping people in their time of need, and that spirit extends to the culture we’ve built at our company. Our employees support and rely on each other each day, collaborating to deliver the best solutions for our customers and help millions more secure their future and protect the ones they love.”
Job Description
The Opportunity
Worksite Technology team is looking to hire a Solutions Architect to join the team and support the business vision and enabling project objectives. The Solution Architect would focus on application design and integration including frontend, back-end services, API’s, data persistence and integration to record keeping systems and cloud services. We create, enhance, and maintain services, components, integrations, and vendor solutions that solve business problems and support the MassMutual vision for digital enablement with a relentless focus on customer experience.
The Team
We are growing and so is our investment in the Worksite business. As the Solutions Architect for Worksite Technology, you will have an opportunity to partner with other experienced technical resources to transform the existing technical stack to support current and new business processes using a cloud first approach and Artificial Intelligence. Support existing application ecosystem and design to scale growing platforms.
The Impact:
As a Worksite Solutions Architect, you will collaborate with business stakeholders, enterprise architecture, and data and customer experience teams to analyze, define, and implement the technical solution architecture in support of the Worksite business vision. We need your leadership, agility, strong communication skills, and passion for learning.
- Architecture Design: Lead the design of scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions tailored to Worksite business needs, ensuring alignment with business goals and enterprise standards.
- Strategic Planning: Partner with Worksite leaders to translate business objectives into technology capabilities and long-term architectural roadmaps.
- Platform Expertise: Provide architectural oversight and technical leadership for Worksite applications
- Integration Leadership: Define integration strategies for connecting Worksite systems with vendor platforms and other systems
- Data Architecture: Collaborate with data teams to ensure robust data models, governance, lineage, and availability for financial and actuarial analysis.
- Risk & Compliance: Ensure all solutions meet regulatory, actuarial, and internal audit requirements.
- Innovation & Best Practices: Stay ahead of emerging trends in financial analytics, machine learning in actuarial science, and cloud-native finance platforms.
- Mentoring & Leadership: Guide and mentor junior architects, solution designers, and developers; lead cross-functional technical working groups
The Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or higher in related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years in technology roles, with at least 8+ years in solution architecture and hands on experience in the following:
- Design and development across frontend, backend, data, and integration layers, delivering complex, production-grade systems.
- Design and implement scalable, distributed solutions using modern languages and frameworks such as Java, Node.js, Python, Spring Boot, JavaScript, and API-driven architectures.
- Microservices and componentized architectures, applying containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-native services to build cloud-first, loosely coupled systems.
- Event-driven and integration architectures, including event streaming (Kafka), synchronous and asynchronous communication patterns, and service contracts.
- Multiple integration styles and data formats, including REST, SOAP, JSON, Avro, and XML, with a clear understanding of trade-offs.
- AWS application architecture experience, designing, building, and deploying cloud-native solutions using services such as IAM, ALB/ELB, Lambda, Step Functions, SNS/SQS, DynamoDB, Aurora, and CloudWatch.
- Relational and NoSQL data stores, including DynamoDB and document databases such as MongoDB, and understanding of data access patterns at scale.
The Ideal Qualifications
- Lead end-to-end architecture for large-scale, multi-tenant SaaS platforms supporting multiple product lines and shared enterprise capabilities across the Worksite Technology stack.
- Partner closely with business stakeholders, Enterprise Architecture, internal technology organizations and external vendors to translate strategic objectives into platform architecture and drive cross-organizational alignment.
- Identify and deliver end-to-end technical solutions based on business needs leveraging microservices-based architecture, incorporating APIs and business events to decouple digital and backend services and enable independent evolution.
- Define future-state technology vision and actionable context-specific roadmaps (baseline → target → transition), aligned to enterprise standards, platform strategy, and delivery sequencing.
- Architect for critical non-functional requirements including security, high availability, scalability, resilience, extensibility, maintainability, and performance engineering.
- Provide hands-on AWS architectural leadership, establishing cloud-native patterns, automation/IaC, and secure governance across environments and accounts.
- Establish full-stack observability and operational excellence across distributed services.
- Ensure architectural solutions are designed as reusable building blocks (APIs/microservices/platform capabilities) that compose flexible solutions and deliver excellent user and developer experience.
- Continuously assess current-state technology, proactively identify gaps/overlaps, and recommend rationalization and investment opportunities; lead technology evaluations and selections when needed.
- Apply strong insurance industry and platform domain understanding to make informed decisions on product usage, vendor capabilities, and long-term investment strategy at MassMutual.
- Exposure to legacy and back-office systems, including batch-oriented processing, with experience modernizing or integrating them into cloud-based architectures.
- Solid understanding of software design patterns and architectural modeling, using appropriate tools and techniques to communicate and validate design decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead architecture and system design discussions, facilitate design reviews, and influence technical decisions across teams.
- Strong collaboration skills, working effectively with globally distributed teams, external vendors, and third-party partners.
- Proven technical leadership and mentorship, guiding engineers and raising the overall bar for architecture, code quality, and operational excellence.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, applying both Agile and traditional SDLC methodologies as appropriate.
- Some knowledge and experience of Artificial Intelligence and usage within a business domain.
- Master’s degree in computer science or higher in related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
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Salary Range: $144,800-$190,000
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By the numbers*
- 85% of employee respondents say they are proud to work at MassMutual
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% of employee respondents say the work they do at MassMutual is meaningful - 85% of employee respondents say they feel encouraged to come up with new and better ways of doing things
*Source: 2025 MassMutual employee engagement survey
Award-Winning Culture
MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company operated for the benefit of our members and participating policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to provide financial well-being for all Americans. It’s more than our company structure — it’s our way of life. We are a company of people protecting people. Our company exists because people are willing to share risk and resources and rely on each other when it counts.
We strive to build a thriving community where everyone is valued, included, and feels that they belong.
At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.
How We Work
MassMutual’s flexible workplace approach combines the importance of connecting in person and the flexibility of working remotely. Our hybrid model puts collaboration first with employees coming in at least three days per week to our spectacular campus settings and also enjoying the flexibility of remote Fridays, company-wide remote weeks, and a bank of flexible remote weeks to use throughout the year.
Benefits for the whole you (and your loved ones)
There’s more to your life than your job and there’s more to your aspirations than a paycheck. We take a holistic view of compensation and benefits that provides the flexibility to create a healthy balance in your life for work, family, and community. We offer the benefits you’d expect, like medical, dental, 401(k), and generous vacation time, but we also offer ones you might not expect, like three paid days for volunteering, a $1,250 annual Well-Being Wallet, and up to 320 hours of caregiver leave.
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