{"id":1325420,"url":"https://alion.io/job/brown-brown-web-application-architect","title":"Web Application Architect","company":{"id":1779108,"name":"Brown & Brown","domain":"bbrown.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/brown-and-brown","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":16,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Design","role_family":"Design","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Plano, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":110000,"max_usd":194000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":122},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Angular","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure AKS","optional":false},{"name":"Figma","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"OWASP","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"State Management","optional":false},{"name":"Storybook","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-09T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-09","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T03:02:47Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":20,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":20},"description":"Built on meritocracy, our unique company culture rewards self-starters and those who are committed to doing what is best for our customers.\nBridge Specialty Group is seeking a Web Application Architect to join our growing team in Plano, TX.\nWe are seekinga talented and experienced Web Application Architect to join the Bridge Specialty Group IT organization. Reporting to the Head of IT Architecture, this role will leadthe architecture, modernization, and governance of highly interactive, transactional web applications used by customers, brokers, underwriters, operational teams, and business partners.\nThe Web Application Architect will define modern front-end and full-stack application patterns, guide UI/UX design and implementation, and shape secure integrations between web experiences, enterprise backend services, and third-party applications. This role will work closely with Product Owners, UX/UI Designers, Application Development teams, Enterprise Architecture, Data Architecture, Integration teams, Security, and Cloud Platform teams to deliver intuitive, accessible, scalable, resilient, and maintainable digital solutions.\nHow You Will Contribute:\nWeb Application Architecture & Digital Experience\nCollaborate with the Head of IT Architecture and Enterprise Architecture teams to define web application architecture standards, reference designs, and technology roadmaps.\n\nEstablish architectural patterns for highly interactive, workflow-driven, and transactional web applications.\n\nDefine standards for front-end frameworks, application composition, state management, browser compatibility, responsive behavior, API consumption, performance, and maintainability.\n\nConduct architecture and technical design reviews to ensure solutions align with enterprise, security, cloud, and integration standards.\n\nGuide tomodernization of legacy web and non-web applications through refactoring, re-platforming, decomposition, and incremental user experience improvements.\n\nLead architecture decisions for customer-facing, partner-facing, and internal web applications.\n\nDefine component-based front-end architectures using modern JavaScript and TypeScript frameworks such as React, Angular, or comparable technologies.\n\nEstablish reusable componentlibraries, design systems, coding standards, and front-end engineering practices.\n\nDefine approaches for routing, state management, caching, error handling, feature configuration, internationalization, and browser-side security.\n\nArchitect applications supporting complex, high-volume, and multi-step business transactions.\n\nUI/UX Design & User Experience\nPartner with Product Owners, and business stakeholders to translate user needs and business workflows into intuitive digital experiences.\n\nProvidearchitectural guidance for interaction design, information architecture, navigation, responsive layouts, and consistent visual behavior.\n\nPromote user-centered design, accessibility, usability, mobile-first design, and inclusive design practices.\n\nSupport creation and governance of design systems, prototypes, wireframes, and reusable interaction patterns using tools such as Figma or comparable platforms.\n\nUse user feedback, analytics, and usability findings to guide continuous improvement of digital experiences.\n\nTransactional & Workflow Application Design\nDesign reliable application flows for submissions, quoting, servicing, approvals, document handling, workflow tasks, and other insurance business processes.\n\nDefine patterns for validation, session and state management, transaction integrity, concurrency, idempotency, error recovery, auditability, and long-running workflows.\n\nEnsure transactional applications meet requirements for performance, scalability, resiliency, data protection, and operational support.\n\nApplication Integration & API Architecture\nDesign backend services and integration patterns that support modern web applications and user experiences.\n\nDefine API-first and Backend-for-Frontend patterns for efficient, secure, and experience-specific access to enterprise services.\n\nArchitect integrations with third-party applications, carrier and vendor platforms, embedded user interfaces, hosted experiences, widgets, iframes, software development kits, and external APIs.\n\nDefine patterns for REST APIs, GraphQLwhere appropriate, webhooks, event-driven integration, messaging, workflow orchestration, and asynchronous processing.\n\nAddress identity propagation, authorization, data transformation, error handling, observability, versioning, rate limits, availability, and failureisolation across external integrations.\n\nCollaborate with integration and platform teams on Azure API Management, messaging, and shared service patterns.\n\nCloud-Native Application Design & Security\nArchitect secure and scalable web applications deployed on approved cloud platforms, with Microsoft Azure as the primary platform and AWS experience considered beneficial.\n\nDefine patterns for static web hosting, content delivery networks, edge routing, web application firewalls, application services, containers, serverless services, and caching.\n\nGuide performance engineering for page load time, rendering, API latency, payload optimization, caching, scalability, and availability.\n\nEnsure applications include appropriate telemetry, distributed tracing, logging, alerting, and user-experience monitoring.\n\nApply secure-by-design principles across browser, application, API, and integration layers.\n\nDefine authentication, authorization, session management, single sign-on, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect patterns.\n\nPartner with Security teams to address OWASP risks, dependency vulnerabilities, secretsmanagement, secure coding, privacy, and regulatory requirements.\n\nEnsure sensitive information is protected throughout user interactions, backend processing, and third-party integrations.\n\nDelivery Enablement & Technical Leadership\nWork directly with UX/UI, front-end, backend, integration, quality assurance, and DevOps teams to guide solution design and resolve architectural challenges.\n\nReview user experience designs, architecture diagrams, technical designs, API contracts, prototypes, and implementation approaches for quality and alignment.\n\nMentor architects, technical leads, engineers, and designers in modern web applications, UI/UX, security, integration, and performance practices.\n\nFacilitate clear communication between technical teams, product teams, business stakeholders, and third-party partners.\n\nServe as the web application architecture subject matter expert for strategic digital initiatives.\n\nContinuous Learning & Innovation\nStay informed on emerging trends in web architecture, front-end engineering, UI/UX, accessibility, cloud platforms, digital experience, and integration technologies.\n\nEvaluate frameworks, tools, design practices, and platform capabilities based on business value, technical fit, security, maintainability, and total cost of ownership.\n\nChampion innovation and continuous improvement in digital application design and delivery.\n\nActively contribute to architecture and engineering communities of practice within Brown & Brown.\n\nAdditionalresponsibilities consistent with the roleobjectivesmay be added as needed to support the profit center.\n\nSkills & Experience to Be Successful:\nRequired\nBachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or relatedfield, or equivalent experience.\n\n[8] + years of progressive experience in software engineering, including [4] +years in web application architecture, solution architecture, or senior full-stack engineering roles.\n\nStrong experience designing highly interactive, responsive, accessible, and transactional web applications.\n\nDeep knowledge of modern front-end architecture using JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and frameworks such as React or Angular.\n\nExperience defining componentlibraries, design systems, state management patterns, automated testing approaches, and front-end engineering standards.\n\nStrong understanding of UI/UX design principles, user-centered design, interaction design, responsive design, usability, and accessibility.\n\nExperience designing backend services, REST APIs, microservices, and Backend-for-Frontend solutions.\n\nExperience integrating web applications with third-party platforms, embedded experiences, SaaS products, vendor APIs, webhooks, and external identity providers.\n\nStrong understanding of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, single sign-on, browser security, API security, and OWASP risks.\n\nExperience designing for application performance, scalability, reliability, observability, transaction integrity, and failure recovery.\n\nStrong technical leadership, mentoring, stakeholder management, and communication skills.\n\nPreferred\nMaster's degree in computer science, Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, or relateddiscipline.\n\nExperience in the insurance or financial services industry.\n\nExperience designing customer, broker, agent, partner, or employee self-service portals.\n\nHands-on familiarity with Figma, design systems, prototyping tools, Storybook, or comparable UI/UX platforms.\n\nExperience with Microsoft Azure services such as Azure App Service, Static Web Apps, Azure Front Door, Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights.\n\nExposure toAWS services supporting web and transactional applications.\n\nExperience with content delivery networks, web application firewalls, caching, real-user monitoring, and digital analytics.\n\nExperience integrating acquiredbusinesses, third-party applications, carrier platforms, or vendor-hosted user experiences.\n\nExperience with enterprise architecture frameworks, governance models, and Agile product delivery.\n\nAbout Us:\nBridge Specialty Group creates a seamless way to connect the varying needs of our retail partners with the market cloutand talents of our wholesale entities. Our more than 25 niche-focused brands reflect our deep experience and specialization in construction, general casualty, environmental liability, professional liability, health care, public entity, workers’ comp, propertyand personal lines.\nWith more than 50 locations and more than 2,000 team members throughout the United States and Europe, Bridge has access to more than 200 standard and excess & surplus lines carriers that support our $7+ billion premium book.\nOur focus is on bringing the power of collective size and specialty to the wholesale brokerage marketplace. Bridge Specialty Group - aligning risk with greater reach.\nTeammate Benefits & Total Well-Being\nWe go beyond standard benefits, focusing on the total well-being of our teammates, including:\nHealth Benefits: Medical/Rx, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance \nFinancial Benefits: ESPP; 401k; Student Loan Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement \nMental Health & Wellness: Free Mental Health & Enhanced Advocacy Services\nBeyond Benefits: Paid Time Off, Holidays, Preferred Partner Discounts and more. \nNot reflective of all benefits. Enrollment waiting periods or eligibility criteria may apply to certain benefits. Benefit details and offerings may vary for subsidiary entities or in specific geographic locations.\nRecruiting Vendor Disclosure Statement\nBrown & Brown does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiters, recruitment vendors or employment agencies (\"Recruiting Vendors\"). Recruiting Vendors must have a valid written agreement and received prior written authorization from an authorized Brown & Brown representative before submitting candidates for any publicly posted role. Any unsolicited resumes submitted to Brown & Brown or its employees become the property of Brown & Brown, and no fees will be paid for such submissions. Additional information regarding this policy can be found on our careers page.\nThe Power To Be Yourself\nAs an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment comprised of people from all backgrounds, with...","description_format":"text","description_chars":12130,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Continuous learning","Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Real Estate","Insurance Brokers & Agencies"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-27T02:52:59Z"}],"liveness":{"score":53,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.587,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":19,"expected_fill_days":39,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/brown-brown-web-application-architect","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/brown-brown-web-application-architect.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29T03:37:38Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3357,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1643,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}}