Lead Architect (Applied Modernization)

Lead Architect (Applied Modernization)

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Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range
$143,000.00 - $235,900.00

Target Openings
1

What Is the Opportunity?
Collaborative Environment, Transformational Projects, and a Growing Team!
As a member of Enterprise Architecture and Emerging Technology, you'll be joining a strategic and collaborative team that is passionate about transforming our business and technology capabilities and paving the way for best-in-class solutions.

As a Lead Architect within the Applied Modernization architecture organization, you will collaborate with senior Technology and Business leaders and apply your knowledge of modern technology to influence and innovate solutions that impact the business. In this role we will look to you to:

• Collaborate with a matrixed team of division-focused Architects to drive Application Modernization (technologies may include, but are not limited to mainframe, rules engines, workflow solutions and SharePoint)
• Create Enterprise Modernization roadmaps and enable division delivery of application modernization efforts
• Partner with division-focused architects on establishing and communicating common approach, strategies, and target state for simplification of the technology landscape

Let us help you accelerate your career as we grow our team and transform our business!
Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Architecture responsibility for a major segment of Technology Architecture in support of the Applied Modernization and Office of Enterprise Architecture business unit

• Works with the Senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives

• Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernization

• Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt

• Create a partnership with Senior Software Engineering leadership

• Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise

• Defines and leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions

• Hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in work experience
• Eight years of experience in enterprise, application, and/or information architecture within a line of business or enterprise area

Education, Work Experience, & Knowledge

• Bachelor's in technology related field or equivalent with 7+ years of technology architecture experience
• Provided mentorship to architecture leaders
• Organizational and transformational Leadership Experience in an agile operating model
• Establishes strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organization
• Expert level Software Engineering experience
• Developed technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals
• Proven track record of Influencing C-level leadership
• Insurance technology experience
• Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement

Job Specific Technical Skills & Competencies

• Must be passionate about technology transformations
• Has hands on experience in the last 3 years
• Executed technology modernization initiatives including migration to cloud native and API Strategy
• Current experience with AWS, APIs, accelerators, DevSecOps
• Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud
• Good understanding of security
• Experienced with large scale technology platforms

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.

If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.

Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.