Job Description:

Remote Type: Remote (USA)
Portland, OR
Time Type: Part time
Requisition ID: REQ005244


Description:

At The Standard, you’ll join a team focused on putting our customers first.

Our continued success is driven by a high-performance culture. We’re looking for people who are collaborative, accountable, creative, agile and are driven by a passion for doing what’s right – across the company and in our local communities.

We offer a caring culture where you can make a real difference, every day.

Ready to reach your highest potential? Let’s work together.

Job Description Summary:

The Enterprise Architect Engineer provides the necessary design, engineering, and analysis tasks to support the development of solutions to ensure that system integrations meet architectural needs and align with engineering governance and standards. The Enterprise Architect Engineer creates deliverables that enable our platforms to communicate with each other and exchange critical information to support our business units.

Job Description:

Why Make the Move to The Standard?

Like to be part of building something new? In your position, you will create a new event stream and API on a cutting-edge platform using the latest toolsets. You will work with an experienced team of architects that drive the technology across The Standard. The missing piece is you, bringing your critical thinking, expertise, and energy.

You will find our environment provides intellectual challenge and excitement as you share in the success of our forward moving plans. We foster innovation, building collaboration, and pursuing excellence. We are looking to talk to a few engineers who are confident in their abilities and have the breadth of experience needed to take The Standard to the next level.

You know what sets you apart; you are smart, strategic minded and future focused. At the Standard, we welcome these attributes, and you will be supported in the pursuit of excellence and openly given the space and time to cultivate ideas and turn them into amazing results. If you are passionate about providing engineering that drives operational excellence and strategic thinking, this role may just be for you.

About The Standard

Headquartered in the heart of downtown Portland Oregon with over 3,000 employees nationwide, The Standard is a leading provider of financial products and services. These include group and individual disability insurance, group life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, group dental and vision insurance, absence management services, retirement plans products and services, individual annuities, and origination and servicing of fixed rate commercial mortgage loans. Founded in 1906 and branded as The Standard, also known as the Standard Life Insurance Company, a wholly owned privately held subsidiary of StanCorp Financial. We enjoy a strong presence in our local communities where our employees are dedicated to give back to others along with generous support from our parent company, Meiji Yasuda Insurance Company based in Tokyo, one of the oldest and largest insurers in Japan. There is a sense of excitement within the company as we continue to move to next generation practices to take the business to a new level, continuing to increase our standing as a premier partner for our customers which include individuals and small, mid-size and national accounts.

Key Elements of Your Position

You will be part of a dynamic team of experienced architects collaborating on a solution to create a modernized API as an example to help drive our organization forward. You will be partnering with architects, engineers, and analysts to build out our API platform. You will bring best practices, a track record of fostering partnerships, and an approach that delivers results. You will leverage sophisticated engineering and analytic tools and methodologies in support of a winning strategy in a continually changing business environment.

Your Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead for architectural engineering.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and leaders to understand their architectural challenges.
• Develop a solution in support of a variety of architectural needs.
• Work with real-time events to stream data into a scalable API hosted in our cloud environment

Potential use cases to provide:

• Engineer real-time data feeds from several source systems
• Define and register a common data model for the event stream in a schema registry
• Design and code a containerized API using Microsoft C#
• Set up an automated pipeline to deploy the API and event stream components into Azure
• Work with the cloud team to configure the API behind our Kong Gateway
• Release the API documentation into a developer’s portal
• Create monitoring to detect problems with the API and event streams

Qualifications

Technical Skills

We acknowledge that it is unlikely you hold all we wish for, but we get excited when we meet professionals who have 4 or more of the following:

• Containerization skills using Docker and Kubernetes
• Azure Event Hub
• Microsoft C#, Web API, JSON, Dependency Injection
• CosmosDB, familiarity with NoSQL databases
• Relational Databases, SQL, DB2, Oracle
• Unit testing framework, xUnit, Moq

Competencies You Possess

• Effective communications skills that instill confidence with internal and external audiences and translate complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders to help enable understanding and drive informed business decisions.
• A low-ego, team-oriented and collaborative approach in keeping with the corporate culture.
• Solutions-oriented mind-set; able to work effectively through complex problems.
• Easily establish yourself as a trusted partner and the ability to build effective partnerships across all areas of the organization and with colleagues at all levels.
• Intellectual curiosity, a passion for engineering and a results orientation.
• We believe in diversity, we like you to bring something we don’t have, or even we have never heard of!
• Consultant personality: make recommendations based on your understanding and findings.

The Standard Culture

The Standard values a diverse and engaged workforce. You will experience an open and welcoming environment with authentic people who are thoughtful and intentional with high integrity. You will find a very collaborative approach when it comes to planning and decision making. You will have the independence to achieve results within the framework of the values and culture of the organization. In a culture that places high value on continuous improvement and possibilities, your ideas and insights regarding creative and innovative approaches are expected and encouraged.

Please note - the salary range for this role is listed below. In addition to salary, our package includes incentive plan participation and comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits, as well as an initial PTO accrual of 164 hours per year. Employees also receive 11 paid holidays and 2 wellness days per year.

• Eligibility to participate in an incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program and plan. Any award depends on various factors, including individual and organizational performance.

Salary Range:

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Positions will be posted for at least 5 days from original posting date.

Standard Insurance Company, The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, Standard Retirement Services, Inc., StanCorp Equities, Inc. and StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc., marketed as The Standard, are Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status or any other condition protected by federal, state or local law. The Standard offers a drug and alcohol free work environment where possession, manufacture, transfer, offer, use of or being impaired by an illegal substance while on Standard property, or in other cases which the company believes might affect operations, safety or reputation of the company is prohibited. The Standard requires a criminal background investigation, employment, education and licensing verification as a condition of employment. All employees of The Standard must be bondable.

About Us:

The Standard is a family of companies dedicated to helping its customers achieve financial well-being and peace of mind. In business since 1906, we’re a leading provider of group and individual disability insurance, group life, dental and vision insurance, voluntary (employee-paid) benefits, absence management services, and retirement plans and annuities for employers and individuals. For more information about The Standard, visit www.standard.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

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