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Gallagher Affinity is looking for a Solutions Architect to help shape and deliver technology solutions across some of our most important strategic initiatives. Reporting to the GGB Americas CTO, the team handles platform selection, app rationalization, AI solution planning, divisional data strategies, and will assist divisional IT, as needed, on technical solutions.

In this role, you will take high-level business ideas and transform them into practical, scalable technology solutions. You will work across business and technology teams to design solutions that are aligned to enterprise standards and built for long-term success.

This is a highly visible role that sits at the center of business strategy, architecture, and delivery, offering the opportunity to make a direct impact on large-scale transformation efforts.

This role can be fully remote/virtual/work from home and you can be based anywhere in the US.  

• Lead the architecture and solution design for complex initiatives across the business
• Turn business needs into clear, actionable technology designs and roadmaps
• Support major initiatives such as system integrations, platform modernization, and application consolidation
• Identify opportunities to simplify and standardize technology platforms

• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand priorities and translate them into technology solutions
• Act as a trusted advisor on solution approaches, platform decisions, and vendor selection
• Help guide the technology direction for key transformation initiatives

• Present solutions in architecture and design review forums to ensure alignment with enterprise standards
• Ensure solutions meet requirements for security, data governance, integration, and scalability
• Partner with enterprise architecture teams to maintain consistency across the organization

• Work closely with engineering, product, data, and infrastructure teams to bring solutions to life
• Partner with external consulting and delivery teams to support execution
• Align with architects across the organization to drive shared capabilities and standards

• Evaluate new technologies and identify where they can create value for the business
• Lead proof-of-concept efforts to test new ideas and capabilities
• Promote modern architecture approaches, including cloud-based and integration-first designs

• 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, software development, or enterprise systems
• Strong understanding of system design, integrations, and cloud-based technologies
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Proven ability to operate effectively in a matrixed environment and collaborate across business and technology functions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate delivery status, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership, executive stakeholders, and technical teams

• Experience with Salesforce platforms or similar enterprise systems
• Experience with .NET, PHP, SQL
• Experience with AI-enabled engineering tools and platforms such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT, and the ability to apply them effectively within software delivery practices
• Experience in insurance, financial services, healthcare, or other regulated industries
• Familiarity with compliance, security, data protection, and audit considerations relevant to enterprise technology delivery
• Experience supporting system integrations or business acquisitions
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture governance processes and structured design review boards

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We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits. 

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance
• 401(K) and Roth options
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
• Educational expense reimbursement
• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
• Training programs
• Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
• Charitable matching gift program
• And more...

**The benefits summary above applies to fulltime positions. If you are not applying for a fulltime position, details about benefits will be provided during the selection process.

We value inclusion and diversity

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

• 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, software development, or enterprise systems
• Strong understanding of system design, integrations, and cloud-based technologies
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Proven ability to operate effectively in a matrixed environment and collaborate across business and technology functions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate delivery status, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership, executive stakeholders, and technical teams

• Experience with Salesforce platforms or similar enterprise systems
• Experience with .NET, PHP, SQL
• Experience with AI-enabled engineering tools and platforms such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT, and the ability to apply them effectively within software delivery practices
• Experience in insurance, financial services, healthcare, or other regulated industries
• Familiarity with compliance, security, data protection, and audit considerations relevant to enterprise technology delivery
• Experience supporting system integrations or business acquisitions
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture governance processes and structured design review boards

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