Solution Architect II

Say hello to Hagerty
Hagerty is a company built by drivers for drivers. We put our members at the center of everything we do and are dedicated to making it easier and more enjoyable for enthusiasts to drive and celebrate the machines they love. We’re proud to be the world’s largest insurer of collectible and enthusiast vehicles and are home to the Hagerty Drivers Club, the world’s largest car club. Our Marketplace business presents live and digital sales across the U.S. and Europe, we host a number of driving events and concours, and our award-winning automotive journalists produce the most popular car magazine globally, alongside internationally awarded videos. We’re committed to Never Stop Driving. Ready to get in the driver’s seat? Join us!
As a Solution Architect II, you will join us in creating software solutions that are well designed and take a long term strategic view. By considering the impact of design choices today against an understanding of a software product’s strategic direction, our solution architects seek to limit future constraints and provide the correct amount of flexibility while delivering business value with timely releases. The team achieves this by placing business capabilities into Hagerty’s Technology Portfolio of Software Assets, by architecting software services, designing APIs, and maintaining clear bounded contexts between each. As excellent communicators and leaders within the organization, they ensure all audiences are aligned on why our software solutions are required, how they are implemented, and what they achieve.
What You’ll Do
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
This might describe you
You’re a talented communicator
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
You have a breadth of experience building software
Programming languages
Deployment
Databases/Persistence
Patterns and anti-patterns
You have a Fundamental knowledge of technology concepts
API Design
HTTP Communication
ReST/RPC Styles
Data movement-- polling, eventing, messaging
Integration patterns and lifecycle
Identity— Authentication and Authorization
You have a growth mindset
You recognize that relying on your current knowledge means falling behind, and you treat continuous learning as a professional responsibility
You are energized by discovering a tool, pattern, or approach you didn't know existed
You share what you’ve learned with the team because you know that communicating what you have learned helps you deepen your own understanding while helping your teammates grow
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
Pluses
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
Other Things To Note
This position is open to U.S. remote work. However, team members who reside within 20 miles of the Traverse City headquarters will follow a hybrid schedule, working from the office three days per week.
May require travel for quarterly events.
Familiarity with public company requirements, including Sarbanes Oxley and key regulations, if applicable. For SOX compliant roles, responsible for designing, executing, and documenting internal controls where they have been identified as owners to prevent errors in financial reporting, processes, and business operations. Including attestation to the completeness, accuracy, and compliance of all financial reporting data, where applicable.
If you reside in the following jurisdictions: Illinois, Colorado, California, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, or Jersey City, New Jersey, Cincinnati or Toledo, Ohio, Rhode Island, Washington, British Columbia, Canada please email recruiting@hagerty.com for compensation, comprehensive benefits and the perks that set us apart.
At Hagerty, we share the road. We are an inclusive automotive community where all are welcomed, valued and belong regardless of race, gender, age, or car preference. We are united by our shared passion for driving, our commitment to preserve car culture for future generations and our desire to make a positive impact in the world.
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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

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