IT架构负责人
Lead IT Architect
我们的工作影响着数百万人的生活，你可以成为其中一员。我们帮助客户抵御生活中的不确定性。无论你在公司哪个部门工作，你都将帮助客户在他们最需要的时候提供保障和安心。
高级IT架构师负责参与基于微软技术栈的企业级系统的技术设计与实现。该职位确保技术决策具有可行性、可扩展性、安全性，并以高标准的工程实践进行实施。
该职位在快节奏的环境中运作，有关键的交付时间表，并与业务利益相关者、产品负责人、架构师和开发团队紧密合作，以设计、构建、现代化和维护复杂的应用程序和集成。高级IT架构师对所支持团队做出合理的技术决策，编写生产代码，支持实施质量，并确保长期可维护性。
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主要职责
架构与技术决策
• 为基于微软的生态系统中应用、集成、数据和基础设施层的解决方案架构做出贡献并加以塑造。
• 使用现代架构模式（例如分层架构、领域驱动设计、事件驱动和面向服务的架构）设计可扩展、安全且具有弹性的系统。
• 确保符合企业级安全、性能、可观测性和合规性标准。
• 评估并推荐适合长期可持续性的技术、框架和模式。
• 作为所负责工作的高级技术权威，为所支持的团队做出适当的技术决策。
动手开发
• 积极设计、编写、审查和优化生产级别的代码。
• 使用C#、.NET（.NET Core / .NET）、ASP.NET、Web APIs和相关框架开发解决方案。
• 应用并推广编码标准、最佳实践和设计指南。
• 对复杂问题进行深入的技术排查和根本原因分析。
• 参与代码审查并提供可操作的反馈以支持质量、性能和安全。
云、集成与平台工程
• 设计并实现利用微软Azure的解决方案，包括计算、存储、消息传递和集成服务。
• 架构并构建API
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The work we do has an impact on millions of lives, and you can be a part of it.
We help protect our customers against life’s uncertainties. Regardless of where you work within the company, you’ll be helping provide protection and peace of mind when our customers need it most.
The Senior IT Architect is responsible for contributing to the technical design and implementation of enterprise-scale systems built on the Microsoft technology stack. This role ensures that technical decisions are practical, scalable, secure, and implemented with high engineering standards.
The role operates in a fast-paced environment with critical delivery timelines and works closely with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, and development teams to design, build, modernize, and support complex applications and integrations. The Senior IT Architect is accountable for making sound technical decisions for the team they work with, writing production code, supporting implementation quality, and ensuring long-term maintainability.
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Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Technical Decision-Making
• Contribute to and help shape solution architecture across application, integration, data, and infrastructure layers within a Microsoft-centric ecosystem.
• Design scalable, secure, and resilient systems using modern architectural patterns (e.g., layered architecture, domain driven design, event driven and service oriented architectures).
• Ensure alignment with enterprise standards for security, performance, observability, and compliance.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks, and patterns appropriate for long term sustainability.
• Act as a senior technical authority for assigned work and make appropriate technical decisions for the team they support.
Hands-On Development
• Actively design, write, review, and optimize production grade code.
• Develop solutions using C#, .NET (.NET Core / .NET), ASP.NET, Web APIs, and related frameworks.
• Apply and promote coding standards, best practices, and design guidelines.
• Perform deep technical troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex issues.
• Participate in code reviews and provide actionable feedback to support quality, performance, and security.
Cloud, Integration & Platform Engineering
• Design and implement solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure, including compute, storage, messaging, and integration services.
• Architect and build APIs and system integrations using REST, messaging, and event based patterns.
• Support data architecture and persistence strategies using SQL Server and related data technologies.
• Support modernization efforts, including refactoring legacy systems and contributing to cloud-native or hybrid architectures.
Delivery, Collaboration & Documentation
• Partner with business analysts and stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Manage assigned technical tasks within project plans, supporting delivery quality and timelines.
• Provide technical guidance to developers as needed, without formal leadership or people-management responsibilities.
• Produce and maintain clear, concise technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design decisions, and operational guidance.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non technical audiences, explaining tradeoffs and impacts of design decisions.
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Experience & Qualifications
• 7+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, system design, and application architecture.
• Extensive experience in the Microsoft technology stack, including:
o C#, .NET / .NET Core
o ASP.NET, Web APIs, and service based architectures
o SQL Server and relational data modeling
• Proven experience serving as both architect and hands-on senior developer on large, complex systems.
• Strong background designing and supporting enterprise scale, mission critical applications.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Experience integrating with external and internal systems through APIs and messaging.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve high complexity technical problems under delivery pressure.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, patterns, and performance optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and support engineering quality through sound technical judgment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred / Domain Experience
• Experience modernizing or integrating with legacy platforms.
• Experience with data conversion or large scale system migrations.
• Prior work in highly regulated or data intensive enterprise environments.
Employee Benefits:
We aim to protect the wellbeing of our employees and their families with a broad benefits offering. In addition to offering comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance, we support emotional wellbeing through mental health benefits and an employee assistance program. Work/life balance is important and Protective offers a variety of paid time away benefits (e.g., paid time off, paid parental leave, short-term disability, and a cultural observance day). The financial health of our employees is just as important as physical and emotional health. Some of the financial wellbeing benefits include contributions to healthcare accounts, a pension plan, and a 401(k) plan with Company matching. All employees are encouraged to protect their overall wellbeing by engaging in ProHealth Rewards, Protective’s platform to improve wellbeing while earning cash rewards.
Eligibility for certain benefits may vary by position in accordance with the terms of the Company’s benefit plans.
Accommodations for Applicants with a Disability:
If you require an accommodation to complete the application and recruitment process due to a disability, please email eric.hess@protective.com. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application and recruitment process.
Please note that the above email is solely for individuals with disabilities requesting an accommodation. General employment questions should not be sent through this process.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to being inclusive and attracting, retaining, and growing an inclusive workforce.