Senior Innovation Architect

Senior Innovation Architect

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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
$120,900.00 - $199,500.00

Target Openings
1

What Is the Opportunity?
Innovation is at the core of everything we do. We continue to ask ourselves, "what's next?" as we navigate the ever-changing insurance landscape. Continuing our customer journey toward the cutting-edge, we are looking for a forward-thinking individual that thrives in ambiguity, who believes that with every challenge comes a new opportunity for solutions.

As a member of the Innovation Technology team, you will partner with research scientists and product managers to discover, invent, and build solutions at scale. As a team, you will work on challenges in machine perception, data mining, machine learning, and natural language understanding.

We are looking for a hands-on individual with strong foundational knowledge highly scalable architectures and planforms. If you like using a variety of skills in technology and solving complex problems, work collaboratively in small agile team environment, you might just be the person we need on our team!
Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Work closely with Cloud Engineering to build and innovation platform; a collection of reusable and extensible containers and tools specific to developing insurance products and platforms.
• Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices.
• Produce quality output for highly visible IT products, services and future business development.
• Assist in hands on remediation of application stability and performance.
• Adopt and communicate new concepts, ideas, techniques.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Provide 'Shrink Wrap' solutions to solve business and technical needs. As part of process, be able to scale Minimum Viable Product to production systems.
• Design and lead integration of analytic data products, including pilots and proof of concepts.
• Frequently present and translate complex information in relevant business terms.
• Constantly learn new skills within small teams.
• No direct HR people management but will lead teams in project & program contexts.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• 2+ years of experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or equivalent cloud. Must be recent experience.
• 5+ years of designing and developing on-premise and cloud solutions.
• 3+ years of experience as a technical lead or architect.
• Experience in software engineering with relevant technologies (Java, JavaScript, Python etc.).
• Experience with the application delivery process.
• End-to-end experience with data, including querying, aggregation, analysis, and visualization.
• AWS certified developer and/or architect.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a continuously evolving environment.
• Exhibits high levels of learning agility in which they seek out and learn from unfamiliar experiences and then apply those lessons to succeed in the next new situation.
• Ability to leverage business knowledge to determine approaches to execution.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability present and translate complex information to leadership and non-technical teams in relevant business terms.
• Uses effective listening skills and communication to build relationships across the organization.
• Ability to Influence with experience working with matrixed staff to complete tasks in a timely manner.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor's Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) related field and 3+ years of experience or 7+ years of experience building highly scalable platforms and reusable components.

What Is in It for You?

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members - including spouses, domestic partners, and children - are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals. In addition, our Life Balance program provides access to professional counseling services, life coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs. Through Life Balance, you're eligible for five free counseling sessions with a licensed therapist.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

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/.