ABOUT ANNEXUS

As the leading independent product design and distribution company in America, Annexus designs solutions to help Americans grow and protect their retirement savings. Since 2006, Annexus has developed the industry’s best-performing fixed-indexed annuities and indexed universal life insurance policies, and they are leading the charge in the development of in-plan lifetime income solutions with plan sponsors. Annexus is recognized as a thought leader across the industry, winning multiple awards including Barron’s Best Product for Seniors and most recently, the Annuity Innovator of the Year award from EQDerivatives. Annexus is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

JOB SUMMARY

The Solution Architect will assist with the design and implementation of the future state of Annexus’ internal technology. This is a new role which will be integral in the next phase of technology for Annexus. Working hand in hand with multiple technology teams they will help guide the enterprise.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Drives the solutioning for large complex projects, collaborating with Enterprise and other Solutions Architects, and business area teams to build detailed technical design and specification documents, to meet business needs for large complex projects, considering capabilities, risks, system dependencies
• Determine the appropriate pattern/style applicable for each integration, and corresponding non-functional requirements
• Build logical designs and physical high-level views for each logical service
• Architects, designs, develops, automates, troubleshoots, evaluates, modifies, tests, deploys, and documents high quality solutions to support all aspects of Annexus.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipeline(s)
• Develop KPIs and KRIs that effectively measure operations
• Perform thorough testing (Unit, Integration, Regression) ensuring the quality of work
• Build positive relationships and work with leaders, team members, Product Owners, and end users to build and test delivered work
• Work as part of an Agile team and organization using common Agile methodologies
• Debug components, identify fixes, and verify remediation of code defects
• Carry out detailed and rational analysis to identify the root cause of problems
• Look for opportunities to embrace innovative technologies
• Prepared to challenge the status quo and drive innovation
• Proactively communicate and manage risk for assigned tasks

Primary Skills & Requirements:

• Object oriented language(s) (C#, Java, PHP 5.0+)
• Experience with Kafka message streaming is a plus
• SQL experience is a plus
• API management configuration and best practices

• Drives the solutioning for large complex projects, collaborating with Enterprise and other Solutions Architects, and business area teams to build detailed technical design and specification documents, to meet business needs for large complex projects, considering capabilities, risks, system dependencies
• Determine the appropriate pattern/style applicable for each integration, and corresponding non-functional requirements
• Build logical designs and physical high-level views for each logical service
• Architects, designs, develops, automates, troubleshoots, evaluates, modifies, tests, deploys, and documents high quality solutions to support all aspects of Annexus.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipeline(s)
• Develop KPIs and KRIs that effectively measure operations
• Perform thorough testing (Unit, Integration, Regression) ensuring the quality of work
• Build positive relationships and work with leaders, team members, Product Owners, and end users to build and test delivered work
• Work as part of an Agile team and organization using common Agile methodologies
• Debug components, identify fixes, and verify remediation of code defects
• Carry out detailed and rational analysis to identify the root cause of problems
• Look for opportunities to embrace innovative technologies
• Prepared to challenge the status quo and drive innovation
• Proactively communicate and manage risk for assigned task