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At Safety National, we don’t just offer jobs – we build careers with purpose! Since 1942, we’ve been an industry leader, valuing integrity, teamwork, and stability while providing competitive rewards, top-tier benefits, career growth opportunities, and flexible work options that promote balance. With tuition reimbursement, wellness perks, and a strong community impact, we invest in your success—both personally and professionally. Ready to grow with us? Apply today! Follow this link to view all of our available careers and apply: safetynational.com This opportunity is in the Business Optimization & Transformation Department. The Business Optimization & Transformation Department’s mission is to help Safety National achieve peak performance through innovative business architecture, solution architecture, and process optimization; by removing silos, promoting a collaborative environment, and leveraging industry best practices to translate business challenges into sustainable growth opportunities and drive continuous improvement. Role Description As a Solution Architect, you will play a key role in designing scalable, secure, and sustainable technology solutions that enable Safety National’s strategic initiatives. Working closely with Product Management, Agile Release Trains (ARTs), product teams, and architecture leaders, you will translate business needs into solution designs that align with enterprise architecture standards while supporting efficient delivery. You’ll serve as a trusted technical advisor, helping teams navigate complex integration challenges, modern engineering practices, and architectural decisions that drive long-term business value. Success in this role requires strong collaboration across business and technology teams, the ability to evaluate solution alternatives, and a passion for building modern enterprise solutions that are secure, reliable, and positioned for future growth. Qualifications Education • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field is required. Equivalent professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree. Required Qualifications • Experience documenting end to end initiative solution diagrams using C4 or a similar diagraming standard. • 7 or more years of experience in solution architecture, software engineering, systems integration, or a related technical discipline. • Experience designing and supporting implementation of complex, multi-system enterprise solutions. • Working knowledge of solution architecture concepts including system integration, APIs, application design, and data flows. • Familiarity with cloud environments, preferably Microsoft Azure. • Understanding non-functional requirements including security, scalability, performance, and reliability. • Familiarity with enterprise architecture standards, governance, and architectural best practices. • Ability to identify and resolve cross-functional integration and interoperability challenges. • Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Ability to collaborate across product, business, and technology teams in an Agile environment. • Ability to translate business strategies and capabilities into actionable solution architecture guidance and implementation considerations. • Ability to quickly learn new technologies, business domains, enterprise platforms, and delivery constraints. • Ability to evaluate solution alternatives while considering business, operational, financial, architectural, and risk impacts. • Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future. • This position allows for a hybrid work schedule which includes a minimum of 3 days per week in our St. Louis Corporate Office, located at 1832 Schuetz Rd., Saint Louis, MO. All employees are required to submit work-from-home requests and follow our Work from Home policy, which will be provided to all candidates selected to interview. Preferred Qualifications • Experience working within Agile or SAFe delivery environments. • Familiarity with containerization, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and modern engineering practices. • Experience evaluating vendor platforms and emerging technologies for enterprise adoption. • Professional certifications such as SAFe, TOGAF, Microsoft Azure, cloud architecture, or enterprise architecture frameworks. Protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and technology assets against unauthorized disclosure, destruction and/or alteration, in accordance with Safety National policies, standards, and procedures. Safety National is a leading specialty insurance and reinsurance provider. Our culture is built upon relationships, which allow us to demonstrate our expertise gained through our rich 80-year history. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tokio Marine, Inc., we appreciate the benefits and support provided by our affiliation with one of the top 10 insurance companies in the world. Total Rewards That Put Employees First In our vision to be First with Co-Workers, compensation that includes base salary, holiday bonus, and incentive awards is only a small portion of the comprehensive total rewards package we offer. Our total rewards approach recognizes and rewards the time, talents, efforts, and results of our valued employees. Highlights of our exceptional benefits include generous health, dental, and vision coverage, health savings accounts, a 401(k)-retirement savings match and an annual profit-sharing contribution. We proudly offer family forming benefits for adoption, fertility, and surrogacy, generous paid time off and paid holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave, a hybrid work environment, and company-paid life insurance and disability. To support employees in their career journeys, we provide professional growth and development opportunities in addition to employee recognition and well-being programs. Apply today to learn more. Safety National is committed to fair, transparent pay and we strive to provide competitive, market-based compensation. In our vision to be First with Co-Workers, compensation is only one piece of the comprehensive total rewards package we offer. The target base salary range for this position is $116,500 to $150,500. Compensation for the successful candidate will consider the candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, experience and geographic location. #LI-Hybrid

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Follow this link to view all of our available careers and apply: https://www.safetynational.com/careers-page/
This opportunity is in the Business Optimization & Transformation Department.
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field is required. Equivalent professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Experience documenting end to end initiative solution diagrams using C4 or a similar diagraming standard.
7 or more years of experience in solution architecture, software engineering, systems integration, or a related technical discipline.
Experience designing and supporting implementation of complex, multi-system enterprise solutions.
Working knowledge of solution architecture concepts including system integration, APIs, application design, and data flows.
Familiarity with cloud environments, preferably Microsoft Azure.
Understanding non-functional requirements including security, scalability, performance, and reliability.
Familiarity with enterprise architecture standards, governance, and architectural best practices.
Ability to identify and resolve cross-functional integration and interoperability challenges.
Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to collaborate across product, business, and technology teams in an Agile environment.
Ability to translate business strategies and capabilities into actionable solution architecture guidance and implementation considerations.
Ability to quickly learn new technologies, business domains, enterprise platforms, and delivery constraints.
Ability to evaluate solution alternatives while considering business, operational, financial, architectural, and risk impacts.
Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future.

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Experience working within Agile or SAFe delivery environments.
Familiarity with containerization, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and modern engineering practices.
Experience evaluating vendor platforms and emerging technologies for enterprise adoption.

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