Hagerty · 9 hours ago
Solutions Architect II
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior LevelHagerty is an automotive enthusiast brand and the world’s largest membership organization. As a Solutions Architect II, you will create software solutions that are strategically designed to deliver business value while maintaining flexibility for future needs. You will act as a subject matter expert, design APIs, and communicate technical concepts to various stakeholders.
Auto InsuranceInsuranceInsurTech
Responsibilities
Own and maintain bounded contexts between software product domains in our Technology Portfolio by -
Acting as a subject matter expert on 1-3 complex domains within our business
Building shared understanding around the encapsulation and distinct purposes of your domains
Decomposing new business concepts and capabilities into bounded contexts
Creating and maintaining context maps that detail your context’s interactions with others in the Portfolio
Design and own inter-context communication specifications that serve the needs of the business now and in the future by -
Designing HTTP APIs and messages that provide solutions to business capabilities and product features
Deciding whether to extend, refactor, or build new software
Establishing strong domain concepts in your API resources that can evolve naturally, over narrow bespoke solutions
Writing excellent design artifacts (OpenAPI, etc.) that make solutions simple to implement and easy to test
Elevate the communication of the enterprise around technology and how it serves our strategy by -
Explaining technical concepts and solutions to nontechnical stakeholders both ad-hoc and by publishing solution artifacts
Championing the capabilities of your product domain(s) to stakeholders and other product teams
Informing product decision making via your technical knowledge and experience creating software
Mature Architectural thinking at Hagerty by -
Evaluating tradeoffs in solution design (e.g. speed, technical debt, vendor cost, complexity) and documenting how you reached your decisions
Being opinionated on implementation based on your knowledge of your product’s roadmaps and the business’ strategy
Measuring architectural maturity in the product contexts you support, and proposing ways to improve that maturity by working with Application Architecture and Engineering
Publishing and adopting common integration patterns between contexts that can be easily re-used by other architects and teams
Qualification
Required
Acting as a subject matter expert on 1-3 complex domains within our business
Building shared understanding around the encapsulation and distinct purposes of your domains
Decomposing new business concepts and capabilities into bounded contexts
Creating and maintaining context maps that detail your context's interactions with others in the Portfolio
Designing HTTP APIs and messages that provide solutions to business capabilities and product features
Deciding whether to extend, refactor, or build new software
Establishing strong domain concepts in your API resources that can evolve naturally, over narrow bespoke solutions
Writing excellent design artifacts (OpenAPI, etc.) that make solutions simple to implement and easy to test
Explaining technical concepts and solutions to nontechnical stakeholders both ad-hoc and by publishing solution artifacts
Championing the capabilities of your product domain(s) to stakeholders and other product teams
Informing product decision making via your technical knowledge and experience creating software
Evaluating tradeoffs in solution design (e.g. speed, technical debt, vendor cost, complexity) and documenting how you reached your decisions
Being opinionated on implementation based on your knowledge of your product's roadmaps and the business' strategy
Measuring architectural maturity in the product contexts you support, and proposing ways to improve that maturity by working with Application Architecture and Engineering
Publishing and adopting common integration patterns between contexts that can be easily re-used by other architects and teams
You meet people where they are and then build shared understanding
Comfortable and effective explaining technical concepts to audiences of varying level and technical skill
Lead and contribute to discussions around product design per business strategy
Bias towards creating visual artifacts that represent contexts, designs, and shared understanding
You enjoy learning and then sharing what you've learned with others
You write effectively about how software works
Programming languages
Deployment
Databases/Persistence
Patterns and anti-patterns
API Design
HTTP Communication
ReST/RPC Styles
Data movement-- polling, eventing, messaging
Integration patterns and lifecycle
Identity— Authentication and Authorization
You have experience being in a visible senior role and want to collaborate with others
You enjoy operating independently, and can concurrently positively impact multiple initiatives with competing priority
You love discovering the actual problem that needs to be solved as much as solving it
Preferred
You've deployed and/or integrated software with the Duck Creek Insurance Platform
You've read Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans
You're familiar with modeling tools such as C4
When there's no leader in the room, you tend to take the lead rather than wait
You're comfortable in front of audiences of all sizes
You've written .NET code
You've designed and released APIs with both ReST and RPC styles
You love creating excellent API documentation with tools like OpenAPI
Company
Hagerty
We're Hagerty, and we help enthusiast drivers insure, buy/sell and enjoy their rides. #NeverStopDriving
Founded in 1983
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$195.6M2025-08-07Post Ipo Secondary· $90.6M
2023-06-23Post Ipo Equity· $80M
2023-06-23Post Ipo Debt· $25M
Leadership Team
Arjun Chowdri
Senior Vice President, Membership & Retention
Gary Chard
Senior Vice President, Operations - Marketplace
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