Head of Enterprise Architecture, AVP

1 week ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom SPE Travelers Management, LTD Full time

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.

Job Category

Technology

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Are you a visionary executive with a track record of building high-quality enterprise solutions and teams? If so, apply today.

As an Assistant Vice President 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 results-driven and bring strong Architecture and engineering skills and a deep understanding of modern technologies including Cloud-native, APIs, AI, and ML. You will work within a community of architecture leaders, charged with establishing and evolving a unified architecture vision.

This role will be based in our London offices. Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company's discretion.

What Will You Do?

You will:

Have organisational responsibility for a major segment of Technology Architecture Work with the 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 modernisation Drive continuous technology transformation to minimise technical debt Create a partnership with Senior Software Engineering leadership Look for opportunities to capitalise on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise 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 ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction Prepare and deliver comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategy Optimizes talent strategy to ensure proper mix of resources and attracts and recruits best talent Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

Bachelor's in technology related field or equivalent with significant technology Architecture experience. Provided mentorship to architecture leaders. Organisational 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 organisation. 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. Demonstrated ability to drive decisions. Must be passionate about technology transformations. Has hands on experience in the last few years. Executed technology modernisation 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. If Cyber: CISSP, CISM, Security+, CISA or equivalent Cybersecurity certification preferred Demonstrated proficiency in designing security solutions that align to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Cloud Security Alliance methodologies. If Information Architect: Experience modernising 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.

What is a Must Have?

Proven experience in enterprise, application, and/or information architecture within a line of business or enterprise area. Experience with influencing people in a matrixed organisation. Must have experience in managing teams.

What Is in It for You?

Private Medical Insurance: On commencement of employment, you are eligible for single cover provided by Travelers, with the option to add cover for your dependants, at your expense through payroll deduction. Retirement: Travelers will make a basic contribution of 9% of pensionable salary to your Group Personal Pension Plan ("GPPP"). If you decide to contribute an additional amount from your salary, you will receive an increased company contribution up to a maximum of 3%. This would bring the total company contribution to 12%. Holiday Entitlement: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 25 days holiday entitlement annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 35 holidays per year. Wellness Programme: The Travelers wellness programme is comprised of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals. In addition, our Employee Assistance programme provides access to professional counselling services and other resources to support your daily life needs. Through the EAP, you're eligible for five free counselling 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 programme 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 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.

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