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IT Solutions Architect/Sr (Finance)



Division or Field Office:

Corporate Enablement Technology Division
Department of Position: IT Corporate Applications Dept
Work from:
Corporate Office in Erie, Pa Salary Range:
$86,954.00-$138,899.00*

salary range is for thislevel and may vary based on actual level of role hired for

*This range represents a national range and the actual salary will depend on several factors including the scope and complexity of the role and the skills, education, training, credentials, location, and experience of an applicant, as well as level of role for which the successful candidate is hired.Position may be eligible for an annual bonus payment.

At Erie Insurance, you're not just part of a Fortune 500 company; you're also a valued member of a diverse and inclusive team that includes more than 6,000 employees and over 13,000 independent agencies. Our Employees work in the Home Office complex located in Erie, PA, and in our Field Offices that span 12 states and the District of Columbia.

Benefits That Go Beyond The Basics

We strive to be Above all in Service® to our customers-and to our employees. That's why Erie Insurance offers you an exceptional benefits package, including:

  • Premier health, prescription, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents.Coverage begins your first day of work.
  • Low contributions to medical and prescription premiums.We currently pay up to 97% of employees' monthly premium costs.
  • Pension.We are one of only 13 Fortune 500 companies to offer a traditional pension plan. Full-time employees are vested after five years of service.
  • 401(k) with up to 4% contribution match.The 401(k) is offered in addition to the pension.
  • Paid time off.Paid vacation, personal days, sick days, bereavement days and parental leave.
  • Career development.Including a tuition reimbursement program for higher education and industry designations.

Additional benefits that include company-paid basic life insurance; short-and long-term disability insurance; orthodontic coverage for children and adults; adoption assistance; fertility and infertility coverage; well-being programs; paid volunteer hours for service to your community; and dollar-for-dollar matching of your charitable gifts each year.

Position Summary

With moderate supervision, translates near-term and long-term business needs into (technical?) initiative solution options.

Facilitates discussions, leads conceptual and high-level design sessions, capturing the results in artifacts, and ensures the architectural design is realized through delivery.

Provides context to the architecture team to enable team members to focus, mature domains, and create future-state architectures.

What You'll Do:

This opportunity is within the IT Corporate Applications portfolio for an IT Solutions Architect or IT Sr Solutions Architect that will focus on setting technical direction and strategy. Act as a technical leader within the team, resolving escalations and working across the architecture community for alignment cross-functionally.

Preferred Experience & Skills:

  • Team Leadership
  • Strong persuasion and collaboration skills
  • Experience across an ERP technology landscape
  • SaaS and additional cloud implementation experience

What Makes You Stand Out:

  • Ability to translate business strategy into simplified business capabilities

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Serves as the single point of accountability for architecture function to portfolio owner customers and technology leadership.
  • Provides architectural guidance on initiatives of moderate complexity, while managing multiple customers with differing priorities.
  • Provides full-stack architectural options that enable business objectives while ensuring long-term technology goals with little technical validation necessary.
  • Informs aspects of portfolio maturity regarding technology and ability to achieve target technology alignment, while facilitating a minimum viable architecture in alignment with delivery needs and technology modernization goals.
  • Monitors project execution and considers and interprets architectural tradeoffs occurring during delivery. Escalates for appropriate context sharing and decision making, as necessary.
  • Proactively enables portfolio owners to see technical debt clearly, provides appropriate context to leadership to inform plans for achieving elimination of technical debt.
  • Fosters an environment for architects and other technology leaders to grow and have high impact.
  • Drives closure on investment decisions within the enterprise while also identifying cross-portfolio impacts.
  • Provides actionable recommendations via consultation services, adapted to stakeholder context, to technology leadership and organizational stakeholders.
  • Collaborates with architects, portfolio owners, and other job families to achieve an enterprise view; provides project and program level views to project and program teams in context of enterprise strategies and directions.
  • Supports business agility through agile engagement across multiple delivery operations.
  • Interprets business needs, assesses solution choices, applies technology, and provides project guidance within a long-term enterprise lens.

The first five duties listed are the functions identified as essential to the job. Essential functions are those job duties that must be performed in order for the job to be accomplished.

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instruction and to perform any other duties as requested by their supervisor, or as become clear.

Capabilities

  • Collaborates
  • Cultivates Innovation
  • Customer Focus
  • Decision Quality
  • Ensures Accountability
  • Instills Trust
  • Nimble Learning
  • Optimizes Work Processes (IC)
  • Self-Development
  • Values Diversity

Qualifications

Minimum Educational and Experience Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, Business or related field, plus three years' related experience, or;
  • Associate's degree in a technical field, plus five years' related experience, or;
  • High School Diploma plus seven years' related experience.

Additional Requirements

  • Skill Breadth: 1 or more domains/portfolios


Designations and/or Licenses
  • AWS Solutions Architect - Professional Certification

Physical Requirements

  • Ability to move over 50 lbs using lifting aide equipment; Rarely
  • Climbing/accessing heights; Rarely
  • Driving; Occasional (<20>
  • Lifting/Moving 0-20 lbs; Occasional (<20>
  • Lifting/Moving 20-50 lbs; Rarely
  • Manual Keying/Data Entry/inputting information/computer use; Frequent (50-80%)
  • Pushing/Pulling/moving objects, equipment with wheels; Rarely

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