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The internal deadline to apply is 10/30/2026.
External applications will be accepted on a rolling basis while the position remains open.
The Enterprise Applications team is seeking a Systems Architect to design and guide modern enterprise applications and platforms, with a particular emphasis on application security.
You’ll partner with technical and product stakeholders to translate desired outcomes into scalable application architectures, establish reusable patterns and standards, and provide technical leadership throughout solution delivery.
Additionally, you’ll bring strong Application Security expertise to integrate security into application design and the software development lifecycle. You’ll guide risk-based security design and threat analysis, review security-sensitive designs, and help engineering teams adopt practical secure development practices.
We're looking for someone who combines strong application architecture experience with meaningful Application Security expertise and enjoys working hands-on with engineering teams to design, implement, and improve secure software. You’ll bring the technical depth to review code, develop proofs of concept, and contribute directly when needed, alongside the architectural judgment to influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and solve complex technology problems.
This position offers a hybrid work schedule. Candidates who are located within 50 miles of a West Bend office location will work a hybrid schedule for collaboration days, team meetings or other in-person events. The position can be based in West Bend, or Madison.
Candidates should have strong practical experience in Application Architecture and Application Security, plus direct experience in two or more of the following areas:
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The salary range for this position is $139,735 - $174,669 The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate will be based on multiple factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity. Compensation decisions are made by West Bend and are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.
West Bend offers a comprehensive benefit plan including but not limited to:
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For more than 130 years, West Bend has been a trusted provider of insurance products, serving the diverse needs of business, home, and automobile owners. This reputation for excellence is recognized not only by our policyholders, but by the insurance industry itself. West Bend has been rated A (Excellent) or better by A.M. Best since 1971. West Bend is also consistently ranked at the top by thousands of insurance agents nationwide in an ease-of-doing-business survey conducted annually by Deep Customer Connections, Inc.
Over 130 years ago, a fire roared through the city of West Bend, WI. This tragedy was one of the worst for our community and touched the lives of many people. Because of that fire, our company was formed. And even then, we began to show that something good can come from something bad.
Over time, people have come to expect this of us. To call with problems and leave with solutions. As time passes, things change. But not our reason for being.
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