Travelers Hiring for Lead Architect – Insights and Data Products at Nashville, Tennessee Full Time

Company Summary

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.

Job Category

Project Management, Technology

Target Openings

1

Job Description Summary

As a Lead Architect, you will help lead the effort to create the technology target state for the Data & Analytics unit in Business Insurance of a global, Dow 30 company. As a direct report to the Head of Information Architecture, Business Insurance you will interface directly with senior technology leaders to transform our current business and technology capabilities and pave the way for best-in-class solutions. You will be a dedicated partner to senior Technology and Business leaders as you define a target state, roadmaps and identify new and emerging technologies that will transform and optimize the business. As an organizational leader, you will humbly serve and inspire a team of high-performing Architects who you will coach, mentor, and empower. As a successful candidate, you are a visionary executive with a track record of building high-quality enterprise solutions. You are results-driven and bring strong Architecture and engineering skills and a deep understanding of modern technologies including Cloud-native, APIs, AI, and ML. You are a person of high integrity, who believes in challenging the status quo when needed, while always first seeking to understand. You will work within a community of architecture leaders, charged with establishing and evolving a unified architecture vision.

This position may be based 100% remotely or in one of our offices.

Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Architecture responsibility for a major segment of Technology Architecture in support of the Business Insurance

• Engage with the customer’s business and technology stakeholders to create a compelling vision of a data-driven enterprise for Business Insurance

• 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

• Hands on experience leading large-scale global data lake/warehousing and analytics projects

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Business Architects, Line of business engineers and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS services such as Athena, Glue, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB NoSQL, Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon EMR and Snowflake.

• Deliver on technical engagements with partners and customers. This includes understanding customer requirements, creating packaged Data & Analytics service offerings.

• Engagements proving the use of AWS services to support new distributed computing solutions that often span private cloud and public cloud services. Engagements will include migration of existing datasets and development of new applications and datasets using AWS cloud services.

• Work with delivery engineering and support teams to convey partner and customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps. Share real world implementations and recommend new capabilities that would simplify adoption and drive greater value from use of cloud technologies.

• Implementing AWS data services in a variety of distributed computing, enterprise environments

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

• If Cyber: CISSP, CISM, Security+, CISA or equivalent Cybersecurity certification preferred

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, GCP, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud

• Understanding of database and analytical technologies in the industry including NoSQL databases, Data lake design, BI reporting and Dashboard development

• Good understanding of security

• Experienced with large scale technology platforms

• If Cyber:

• Demonstrated proficiency in designing security solutions that align to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Cloud Security Alliance methodologies.

• If Information Architect:

• Experience modernizing data technology and information architecture on cloud

• Exposure and understanding of advanced analytics techniques using ML and AI

• Hands on experience with data technologies on cloud

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 ([email protected]) 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/ .