Tech Lead/Solution Architect

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a Tech Lead / Solution Architect to join a large insurance organization supporting a major financial transformation initiative. This individual will play a critical role in assessing inherited financial applications, and designing scalable, compliant architectures aligned to both immediate needs and a long-term general ledger replacement roadmap. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with deep finance domain expertise, strong communication skills, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, highly visible environment while guiding developers and influencing architectural direction. This is a remote, 6 month contract-to-hire with a pay range of $80-90/hr and salary conversion up to 175k.

Day-to-Day:

• Lead architecture and technical direction for a new finance team

• Assess existing finance applications and define modernization strategy

• Design and implement financial domain-specific architectures

• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using Git

• Lead root cause analysis and post-mortems, driving action plans forward

• Pull stories from backlog items and incidents and prioritize work accordingly

• Partner with developers to assign work and guide execution

• Ensure all changes align with short-term delivery and long-term roadmap

• Produce strong technical and architectural documentation

• Serve as a technical authority and mentor within the team

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Skills and Requirements

• 7+ years experience as a Tech Lead / Solution Architect

• Strong finance domain experience (general ledger, financial systems, audits, transformations

• Ability to assess current-state applications and design short and long term architecture roadmaps with audit and compliance awareness

• Hands-on experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and financial domain architecture

• Ability to execute root cause analysis and post-mortems by working with developers (coming up with an action plan and assigning work accordingly)

• Strong MS stack coding experience

• Strong CI/CD pipeline knowledge (Git-based)

• Experience in fast paced, agile environments

• Exceptional communication and documentation skills - Experience starting teams from scratch and establishing best practices

• Cloud migration experience (roadmap-driven, phased approach)

• Experience balancing ideal architecture vs. real-world business use cases

• Prior experience inheriting and stabilizing multiple existing applications

• Background working in highly audited environments