Principal Solution Architect, Data (FPRS & CSWM)
guardianlife · Holmdel · On-site
Pay: USD 152,290 – 250,195 a year
Posted Oct 1, 2026
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Position Overview:
The Principal Solution Architect, Data is responsible for defining, scaling, and governing enterprise-wide or business solution architecture across platforms, domains, and delivery teams. This role shapes how technology solutions are designed, integrated, secured, and operated consistently across the organization. While architecture is foundational, the Principal Solution Architect, Data will be responsible for designing solutions in close collaboration with the business and technology stakeholders. Where applicable, the role will be accountable to build solutions that scale and align to business and technology requirements.
Operating at an enterprise or portfolio level, the Principal Solution Architect, Data focuses less on individual solution delivery and more on establishing architecture patterns, standards, guardrails, and building solutions that enable teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and secure solutions at speed.
This role operates within a federated Enterprise Architecture (EA) model, partnering closely with business technology and platform teams to shape solutions in real time while improving accountability, speed, and delivery alignment. The architect remains connected to the central EA core through enterprise standards, governance, communities of practice, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure consistent, risk-aware technology decisions across domains.
This role partners closely with Enterprise Architecture, Engineering, Product, Cybersecurity, and Platform teams to ensure solutions align to business strategy, are resilient and compliant, and can scale across multiple use cases without becoming a bottleneck to delivery.
This Principal Solution Architect, Data role will have a strong focus on data solution architecture, modern data platforms, data products, and AI-enabled capabilities across the Insurance business.
The role bridges business, engineering, architecture, and data teams to rapidly design, build, and deploy scalable solutions that improve underwriting, enrollment, billing, claims, customer service, Producer, reporting, analytics, and digital experiences.
The architect will champion a data product mindset, treating data as a strategic enterprise asset with clear ownership, quality standards, reusable capabilities, governance, and measurable customer value.
Key Responsibilities:
Own and shape enterprise or business solution architecture strategy, standards, and patterns across multiple platforms and domains.
Define and maintain reference architectures and reusable design patterns (“golden paths”) for solution delivery.
Establish architectural guardrails that enable scalable, secure, and consistent solution design across teams.
Own reusable solution patterns, reference architectures, golden paths, and cross-team design consistency.
Work with Solution Architects to drive adoption; Head of Portfolio Architecture to tailor for BU context; Principal Enterprise Architect to align with…