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Solution Architect - Data
Springfield, Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts
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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
As a Solution Architect - Data you are proficient in in enterprise, application, and information data architecture design, and are experienced working in an Agile development environment and as well as understand SDLC. You’ll use your skills to lead and contribute into the design, development, and review of architectural deliverables. You’ll also contribute to the development and maintenance of data applications towards Analytical and Operational use cases spanning into data, software, and infrastructure architecture and will assure that the data application architecture is aligned to business domain architecture and enterprise data architecture standards. You’re an excellent communicator with the confidence to present to executive level audiences, and proficient in driving conversations with senior technologists within cross-functional teams.
The Team
At MassMutual, we’re passionate about helping millions of people find financial freedom and this passion has driven our approach to developing highly interactive digital experiences for our customers. The Data Services and Engineering team in Enterprise IT Product and Operations Technology organization, is comprised of highly skilled, collaborative, problem solvers who are motivated to create innovative solutions that exceed the changing needs of our customers and move MassMutual forward. As a Solution Architect Data you’ll have an opportunity to partner with other experienced technology resources to transform the existing data technology stack to support current and new business processes adopting a cloud first approach.
The Impact:
- Design and establish a sound Architecture towards building data ecosystem for persisting, processing, consuming, and analyzing data.
- Define and establish a Data Integration Strategy in collaboration with other Solution and Enterprise architects which will enable the systems integrations moving from point-to-point to passthrough model.
- Maintain end-to-end vision of dataflow for applications under his/her purview.
- Design lead and implementation oversight for data integration solutions supporting batch/ETL, real-time streaming, and API-led integrations.
- Provide strategic thinking and solutions. Proactively assess the current state of the technology and identify gaps and overlaps. Capture future state technology vision in actionable, context-specific roadmaps.
- Lead the adoption of cloud data technologies, while supporting a transition path from matured to emerging technology stack with minimal disruption to critical data applications.
- Develop and enforce policies around data quality, data security, data retention, data stewardship, and proactively identify and support project impacts.
- Serves as an expert level technical resource, may act as a project lead. He/she won’t have direct reports but will influence and direct activities of teams across multiple initiatives.
- Work in a team-based environment including a global workforce, vendors, and third-party contractors.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or similar technical field of study
- 8+ years applications design & development experience, with substantial focus in enterprise, application and information data architecture design.
- 3+ years of experience in all facets of data architecture for analytics and operational reporting solutions enablement - data warehouse, data lake, reference data, master data management, enterprise-grade BI platforms, and business analytics solutions.
- 3+ years of experience in designing data integration solutions including data development, database design, ETL and orchestration, data syndication, and API-led data access.
- 1+ year of backend development experience using Node.js, Express, MongoDB, GraphQL, RESTful APIs etc.
- 2+ year of experience with cloud data technologies (preferably AWS) such as S3, Lambda, Glue, EMR, Kinesis, Redshift, Redis, Athena, and DevOps tools such as Git, Docker, Kubernetes.
- 1+ year of Data Architect experience within Life Insurance or Financial Services domain.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong domain experience in Financial Services or Life Insurance industry.
- Strong knowledge of data modeling and ETL development including patterns and best practices.
- Experience with event streaming and web service protocols like SOAP, REST, JSON, or Kafka
- Experience in working with and enabling integrations with vendor/SaaS platforms.
- Strong experience in defining and using data quality management, data security frameworks, metadata management, and data governance processes.
- Experience with Vertica or other columnar database, and understanding of unified data analytics platform like Snowflake, Databricks etc.
- Experience in AWS cloud application design, development, and deployment and migrating applications and workloads to cloud environment.
- Familiarity with insurance industry data standards like ACORD.
- Strong consultative skills at a cross-functional level, and able to work independently.
- Excellent mentoring skills and the desire to contribute to efforts beyond the scope of the day-to-day project work.
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MassMutual will accept applications on an ongoing basis until such time as a candidate has been offered employment. The job description includes the main duties of this position, which may evolve over time. You may be required to perform other duties not listed.
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Salary Range: $134,400.00-$176,400.00
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By the numbers*
- 88% of employee respondents say they are proud to work at MassMutual
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% of employee respondents say they feel encouraged to bring forth new ideas - 86% of employee respondents say MassMutual cares about and supports the well-being of their employees
*Source: 2024 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 embrace diversity in every sense, focusing on building 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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