Solution Architect

The Hartford

Solution Architect designing and implementing digital solutions for Small Business IT team at The Hartford. Focused on innovation and aligning technology with business strategies in a hybrid role.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeHartford • Connecticut, Ohio • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $131,600 - $197,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularAWSCloudMicroservicesReactSOAP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Establish and drive clear, effective, and innovative solution designs aligning to The Hartford’s reference architectures, blueprints, and business and IT strategies across our Digital properties, with a focus on AI and strategic thinking.
Translate strategy into end ‑ to ‑ end solution designs spanning mobile, responsive web, APIs, microservices/micro ‑ frontends, data, and cloud infrastructure.
Produce option analyses and decision records balancing strategic alignment, security, reliability, complexity, and cost.
Design solutions leveraging SaaS and Native Cloud architectures and services, focusing on rationalizing and modernizing assets.
Advance digital identity and zero ‑ trust patterns across experiences; ensure alignment with enterprise security standards.
Partner with value streams on roadmaps and increments; ensure designs meet non ‑ functional expectations and are operable (telemetry, SLOs, runbooks).
Evaluate and land emerging Technologies where it demonstrably improves outcomes.
Align to architecture governance: reviews, permits to build, conformance checks, and pragmatic exceptions when warranted.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5 –8 years of experience in solution architecture, application architecture, or senior engineering roles within a large ‑ scale enterprise environment
Proven Small Commercial Industry Experience
Demonstrated impact designing cloud ‑ native solutions (AWS/Google), APIs and integration patterns including: Microservices and service oriented architectures
Event driven and API based integration patterns (SOAP, REST)
Hands ‑ on experience applying GenAI/ML to production use cases; familiarity with agentic architectures, RAG, semantic search, embedding models and LLMs .
Expertise with digital identity/CIAM and modern auth (OIDC/OAuth2) and aligning to enterprise security standards.
Experience developing or designing single-page applications utilizing contemporary frameworks such as Angular/React .
Experience designing and implementing cloud-based solutions utilizing Microservices or API-based integrations with a clear understanding of JSON, REST, and HTTP standards.
Clear understanding of cloud, hybrid cloud, and container deployment architectures including building cloud-ready applications and container orchestration systems.
Fluency in platform and product thinking , solution KPIs, reliability engineering, and cost management.
Strong written, verbal, and influence skills—comfortable engaging senior leaders and mentoring engineers across a matrixed org.
Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
Cloud certifications and architecture certifications are strongly preferred.
Candidate must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship.

Benefits

Comp & perks

other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses
long-term incentives
on-the-spot recognition

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Hard Skills & Tools

solution architectureapplication architecturecloud-native solutionsAPIsmicroservicesevent-driven integrationGenAIMLsingle-page applicationscloud-based solutions

Soft Skills

strategic thinkingcommunicationinfluencementoringcollaboration

Certifications

cloud certificationsarchitecture certifications