What Is the Opportunity?
As an AVP of Architecture, 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. You are a visionary executive with a track record of building high‑quality enterprise solutions and teams. 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. This is a highly strategic role leading within a community of architecture leaders.
What Will You Do?
- Organizational responsibility for a major segment of Technology Architecture
- Work with Senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives
- Display strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernization
- Drive continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt
- Create partnership with Senior Software Engineering leadership
- Look for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of industry and technology trends
- Define and lead technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of new technology architecture solutions
- Define target state technology architecture and roadmaps
- Ensure alignment of IT initiatives with the target state
- Build strong partnership with engineering to align skills with technology direction
- Prepare and deliver comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategy
- Optimize talent strategy to ensure proper mix of resources and attract and recruit best talent
- Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture
- Perform other duties as assigned
What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?
- Bachelor’s in technology related field or equivalent with relevant technology Architecture experience
- Provided mentorship to architecture leaders
- Organizational and transformational Leadership Experience in an agile operating model
- Expert level Software Engineering awareness
- Led development of strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organization
- Developed technology target state, roadmaps 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 and demonstrated ability to drive decisions
- Passionate about technology transformations and has hands‑on experience executing 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
- Good understanding of security
- Experienced with large scale technology platforms
What Is a Must Have?
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in work experience
- Relevant experience in enterprise, application, and/or information architecture within a line of business or enterprise area
- Previous management experience
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.
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