• Lead the implementation and configuration of global Workday solutions. • Conduct interactive sessions with clients to identify and fulfill their needs. • Manage project scope, quality, and timelines to deliver excellence. • Serve as the client’s voice providing third-party perspective. • Troubleshoot issues when they arise and mentor less experienced consultants.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, subject matter experts (SMEs), and the Teamcenter end user community at large. • Lead functional solution architecture and PLM strategy discussions, positioning Siemens Xcelerator solutions. • Provide demos of functionality and evangelize customer capability that has been built in the system to potential new stakeholders. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand, guide, and capture business requirements. • Own the translation of business requirements into scalable Teamcenter solution designs, including data models, workflows, lifecycle processes, and system integrations. • Evaluate business/technical requirements for Teamcenter requested functionality and provide level of effort estimation to support sprint planning and costing. • Design end-to-end business processes that leverage the Siemens Xcelerator ecosystem, integrating Teamcenter with enterprise systems such as ERP, MES, ALM, and supply chain platforms. • Conduct comprehensive testing, including unit, integration, and system testing ensuring application quality and functionality stay in spec. • Assist development teams in diagnosing and resolving complex configuration or customization issues. • Evangelize best practices for PLM usage and digital engineering processes, helping organizations maximize the value of Teamcenter. • Provide training and support to end-users on Teamcenter functionality and best practices.

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.