The Domain Managing Architect provides strategic architectural leadership across the Digital domains. This role leverages enterprise architecture disciplines, frameworks, and tools to ensure that technology solutions align with the long-term best interests of Horace Mann.

Key Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain current, future, and transitional state architectures.
• Create conceptual, logical, and physical architecture models and diagrams.
• Formulate and review high-level design documents.
• Define, document, and govern architectural decisions across programs and projects.
• Develop and enforce architecture policies, standards, and processes in partnership with the Chief Architect and CIO.
• Identify and establish new enterprise building blocks and reusable architectural patterns.
• Establish AI governance frameworks including model risk management, explainability, fairness, and compliance.
• Lead and approve Enterprise Architecture Assessments. including AI-enabled and cloud migration solutions.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise standards, security, data, privacy, and responsible AI expectations.
• Provide best-practice guidance in evaluating and selecting vendor products and technology platforms.
• Partners with Solution Delivery teams, architects, and technical leads to maintain current, target, and transition architectures.
• Facilitate consensus across diverse technical and business teams.
• Lead modernization efforts including legacy rationalization, decommissioning, and adoption of cloud-native and AI-ready platforms.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive and non-technical audiences.
• Identify and mitigate architecture risks, and technical debt.

Required Qualifications
• 10+ years of IT experience with 5+ years in architecture leadership roles
• Proven experience leading cloud transformation and legacy modernization programs at enterprise scale
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills in both technical and business contexts
• Brings broad cross-domain knowledge spanning enterprise and solution architecture, data platforms, integration, infrastructure, networking, and security to design scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise solutions.
• Experience working within an Enterprise Architecture framework (e.g., TOGAF).
• Fluency in modern architecture practices, including cloud-native, microservices, event-driven, and AI-enabled architectures.
• Proven experience leading legacy modernization and enterprise cloud transformation initiatives across complex technology landscapes.
• Ability to define and govern enterprise architecture standards, patterns, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps aligned with business strategy.
• Expertise in creating architecture artifacts and diagrams (e.g., Visio, draw.io).
• Collaborate with business leaders, IT leadership, and engineering organizations to translate strategic objectives into scalable technology solutions.
• Experience in risk management and executive-level presentations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead across organizational boundaries and drive consensus.
• Experience with digital transformation

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in the insurance industry is highly preferred.
• Experience in the Customer, Distribution and Producer/Agent business domains
• Experience implementing AI governance frameworks in regulated environments.
• Exposure to Agentic AI and Generative AI (LLMs, RAG, vector databases)
• Certifications in cloud platforms (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect, AWS SA).

Pay Range:

• $124,200.00 - $175,800.00

Salary is commensurate to experience, location, etc.

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