Role Description The Domain Managing Architect provides strategic architectural leadership across the Digital domains. This role leverages enterprise architecture disciplines, frameworks, and tools to ensure that technology solutions align with the long-term best interests of Horace Mann. Key Responsibilities - Develop and maintain current, future, and transitional state architectures. - Create conceptual, logical, and physical architecture models and diagrams. - Formulate and review high-level design documents. - Define, document, and govern architectural decisions across programs and projects. - Develop and enforce architecture policies, standards, and processes in partnership with the Chief Architect and CIO. - Identify and establish new enterprise building blocks and reusable architectural patterns. - Establish AI governance frameworks including model risk management, explainability, fairness, and compliance. - Lead and approve Enterprise Architecture Assessments, including AI-enabled and cloud migration solutions. - Ensure alignment with enterprise standards, security, data, privacy, and responsible AI expectations. - Provide best-practice guidance in evaluating and selecting vendor products and technology platforms. - Partner with Solution Delivery teams, architects, and technical leads to maintain current, target, and transition architectures. - Facilitate consensus across diverse technical and business teams. - Lead modernization efforts including legacy rationalization, decommissioning, and adoption of cloud-native and AI-ready platforms. - Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive and non-technical audiences. - Identify and mitigate architecture risks and technical debt. Qualifications - 10+ years of IT experience with 5+ years in architecture leadership roles. - Proven experience leading cloud transformation and legacy modernization programs at enterprise scale. - Exceptional communication and leadership skills in both technical and business contexts. - Brings broad cross-domain knowledge spanning enterprise and solution architecture, data platforms, integration, infrastructure, networking, and security to design scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise solutions. - Experience working within an Enterprise Architecture framework (e.g., TOGAF). - Fluency in modern architecture practices, including cloud-native, microservices, event-driven, and AI-enabled architectures. - Proven experience leading legacy modernization and enterprise cloud transformation initiatives across complex technology landscapes. - Ability to define and govern enterprise architecture standards, patterns, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps aligned with business strategy. - Expertise in creating architecture artifacts and diagrams (e.g., Visio, draw.io). - Collaborate with business leaders, IT leadership, and engineering organizations to translate strategic objectives into scalable technology solutions. - Experience in risk management and executive-level presentations. - Demonstrated ability to lead across organizational boundaries and drive consensus. - Experience with digital transformation. Preferred Qualifications - Experience in the insurance industry is highly preferred. - Experience in the Customer, Distribution, and Producer/Agent business domains. - Experience implementing AI governance frameworks in regulated environments. - Exposure to Agentic AI and Generative AI (LLMs, RAG, vector databases). - Certifications in cloud platforms (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect, AWS SA). Benefits - Pay Range: $124,200.00 - $175,800.00. - Salary is commensurate to experience, location, etc. Company Description Horace Mann was founded in 1945 by two Springfield, Illinois, teachers who saw a need for quality, affordable auto insurance for teachers. Since then, we’ve broadened our mission to helping all educators protect what they have today and prepare for a successful tomorrow. We serve more than 4,100 school districts nationwide, we’re publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: HMN) and we have more than $12 billion in assets. We’re motivated by the fact that educators take care of our children’s future, and we believe they deserve someone to look after theirs. We help educators identify their financial goals and develop plans to achieve them. This includes insurance to protect what they have today and financial products to help them prepare for their future. Our tailored offerings include special rates and benefits for educators. EOE/Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. For applicants that are California residents, please review our California Consumer Privacy Notice. All applicants should review our Horace Mann Privacy Policy.

• Architect and govern the design of APIs and integrations, defining contracts (OpenAPI Spec), versioning standards, and REST, webhook and event-driven flows across teams. • Define the organization’s API Gateway strategy, evaluating and operating solutions such as KrakenD and Kong based on trade-offs in performance, security, and cost. • Establish the security model for integrations, designing authentication and authorization policies using OAuth2, OIDC, JWT and mTLS under zero-trust principles. • Design event-driven architectures with Kafka and messaging systems, ensuring reliable and traceable flows in both synchronous and asynchronous scenarios. • Ensure resilience and scalability of integrations by applying patterns such as caching, rate limiting and circuit breakers, anticipating availability risks. • Lead technical response to critical integration incidents in distributed environments, performing advanced troubleshooting and documenting lessons learned. • Deploy and evolve the APIs observability strategy, ensuring end-to-end visibility into service performance and behavior.

Role Description We are hiring an Infrastructure Architect, Staff with strong foundational infrastructure experience and the ability to grow into a broader architecture and cross-functional role. This position is ideal for someone who is hands-on, adaptable, and capable of learning new systems quickly, rather than someone with experience in a specific set of tools. This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure and business-focused systems and will focus on supporting upgrades, integrations, and platform alignment, while partnering closely with both IT and business stakeholders. This is a hands-on technical role where the individual will actively participate in and execute upgrades, integrations, and system improvements. Qualifications - 5–12 years of experience in infrastructure, systems engineering, or related roles - Broad experience in enterprise IT environments (not limited to a single system or tool) - Exposure to core infrastructure areas such as: - Identity and access management (e.g., Active Directory or similar) - Server environments (Windows and/or Linux) - Application or platform support - Experience participating in system upgrades, migrations, or integrations - Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly - Strong communication and interpersonal skills - Proven ability to produce clear documentation with attention to detail - Exposure to Microsoft environments (Active Directory, Windows Server, SQL Server, Exchange) preferred - Experience with virtualization (e.g., VMware) preferred - Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure) preferred - Exposure to CMDB or service management tools preferred - Experience working alongside ERP or business systems teams preferred - Any experience with platform ownership or application support preferred Requirements - Partner with IT and business teams to understand system requirements and dependencies - Assist in designing and executing system upgrades, integrations, and improvements - Support a variety of enterprise platforms (ownership will expand over time) - Help ensure systems are scalable, stable, and aligned with enterprise standards - Identify issues, risks, and inefficiencies and help drive improvements - Maintain clear documentation for systems, integrations, and processes - Contribute to a more proactive, structured infrastructure approach Benefits - Paid Time Off - 401K with Employer Match and Profit Sharing - Health and Wellness Benefits - Learning and Development Opportunities - Referral Program - Competitive Pay - Recognition - Employee Stock Purchase Plan - Inclusive & Supportive Culture

Role Description The IT User eXperience and Enablement (UXE) Department is responsible for the technology used daily by every part of the business. This includes: - Video Conferencing suites - Laptops - Office IT equipment - Core-Business Applications The Principal IT Systems Architect is responsible for designing and overseeing the integration of complex IT systems across the enterprise. This role sets technical direction, ensures alignment with business needs, and influences architecture standards. The Principal Architect leads cross-system troubleshooting, maintains system documentation, and collaborates with technical leaders to drive innovation and continual improvement, in line with ITIL and SDI best practices. This person will work as a member of a globally distributed team of talented IT Professionals within Forcepoint, focusing on outstanding customer experience and delivery. Responsibilities - Lead cross-system troubleshooting and design for recoverability and observability. - Demonstrate expertise in deployment and identity systems. - Maintain and improve system documentation and diagrams. - Collaborate with technical leaders on mentoring and development plans. - Communicate effectively from C-level to junior engineers. - Create and break down initiatives into actionable stories. - Influence technical direction company-wide. - Ensure alignment with business needs and outcomes. Qualifications - Expertise in system design and troubleshooting. - Strong documentation and communication skills. - Ability to influence and collaborate across teams. - Understanding of business trade-offs and technical outcomes. Requirements - Experience with multiple identity and deployment systems. - Breadth of coding expertise and technology stack judgement. - Ability to continuously improve designs based on feedback. Benefits - Salary range: $180,000.00 - $216,000.00. - Actual salaries determined by location, experience, and performance. - Other rewards may include bonuses, paid time off policy, and many region-specific benefits.