Principal Solution Architect, Enterprise API Platform
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of Americafull time · Lead / Staff / Principal
$152,290 – $250,195
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What this role is
This role shapes enterprise API architecture and modernization strategy across an organization, working with business and technology leaders to establish standards, patterns, and governance that enable teams to deliver scalable solutions. It suits architects with deep experience in enterprise systems, API platforms, and the ability to influence technical direction across distributed teams while balancing strategic vision with practical delivery.
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What they ask for
Required
- Deep experience designing and governing enterprise-scale solution architectures across multiple teams and domains
- Experience modernizing API ecosystems including management platforms, lifecycle platforms, and gateway patterns
- Proven ability to define and drive adoption of architecture standards, frameworks, and reusable patterns
- Strong understanding of modern technology ecosystems including application architectures, APIs, integration patterns, AI, and cloud platforms
- Experience balancing business priorities, technical trade-offs, and risk at enterprise level
- Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels
- Strong experience influencing technical direction across distributed teams without direct reporting authority
- Ability to bridge business and technology, translating strategy into architectural direction
- Excellent communication skills for conveying complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience working in regulated or risk-sensitive environments with governance and compliance awareness
- Track record of mentoring architects and engineers
- Experience with Agile and product-based delivery models
- Strong engineering background with credibility as technical partner to engineering leaders
- Demonstrated ability to balance pragmatic delivery with disruptive architectural thinking
- Understanding of MCP, agentic AI enablement, context-layer architecture, API observability, discoverability, governance, and security
- Legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship
Nice to have
- Experience producing product-level and team-level technical design documentation