Enterprise Solutions Architect - World Financial Group

About this role

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  At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.   

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.  

Who We Are  

We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life .   

Today, we’re part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’s important to them.  

We’re empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good — for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.  

What We Do  

Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include 1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors, 2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and 3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate , which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.  

Transamerica employs nearly 7 ,000 people. It’s part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide. * For more information, visit transamerica.com .   

Job Description Summary The Enterprise Solutions Architecture is focused on the design and development of modern architectures to enable a data-driven digital business. Define data strategies, grow capabilities, and develop the enterprise data platform by providing technology leadership, insight on new developments within the architecture space, and guidance in architectural and design decisions. Job Description Responsibilities • Serve as a subject matter expert and lead development programs and projects. • Work collaboratively with other architects, data scientists, analytics teams, and business product owners in an agile environment. • Architect, build, and support the operation of Cloud and On-Premises enterprise data infrastructure and tools. • Design robust, reusable and scalable data driven solutions and data pipeline frameworks to automate the ingestion, processing, and delivery of structured and unstructured batch and real-time streaming data. • Lead the development of data APIs and data delivery services to support critical operational processes, analytical models, and machine learning applications. • Lead the selection and integration of data related tools, frameworks and applications required to expand our platform capabilities. • Recommend and implement best practices for the management of enterprise data, including master data, reference data, metadata, data quality, and lineage. • Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the field and rapidly grasp new technologies to lead and support the environment and project deliverables. • May manage/coach staff.

Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, engineering, MIS, or equivalent experience • Six years of collective experience in the application of architecture, enterprise roadmaps, analytics, cloud, IT strategies, innovation, SAFE, TOGAF and data integration concepts and methodologies • Four years of experience architecting, building, and administering complex architectures and technologies, and real-time streaming analytics architectures in both on premises and cloud environments. • Expertise using SQL for data profiling, analysis and extraction • Familiarity with data science techniques and frameworks. • Three years of experience in the four following areas: • (1) Architecting, building, and administering large-scale distributed applications • (2) Linux operations and development, including CLI, basic commands and shell scripting (Powershell, Bash) • (3) Architecting scalable containerized applications with container orchestration framework • (4) Execution of DevOps methodologies and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery • Skilled in detailed-oriented delivery management; results oriented with a strong customer focus • Leadership capability to effectively communicate with all levels of management • Strong analytical skills and creative thinker • Attention to detail and results oriented, with a strong customer focus • Attention to detail and results oriented, with a strong customer focus • Analytical and problem-solving skills • Technical communication skills • Prioritization skills to meet tight deadlines • The ability to work in a team environment

Preferred Qualifications • Master’s degree • Experience with advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations • Experience with data analysis and using data visualization tools to describe data • Understanding of big data and real time streaming analytics processing architecture and ecosystems • Experience with Datalakes data warehousing architecture

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