Lead Cloud Adoption Architect

Company: Travelers Canada
Location: Hartford
Posted on: May 7, 2022

Job Description:

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 Applied Modernization and Office of Enterprise Architecture Unit of a global, Dow 30 company. As a direct report to a member of the Enterprise Architecture and Emerging Technology leadership team, 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. You will be part of a team of Enterprise Architects that collaborates with a matrixed team of division-focused Architects to drive Cloud adoption. This team serves as a point of intake for Cloud requests from across the company and provides prioritization in alignment with division needs and the company's goals.---Division-focused architects work with the Cloud Adoption and Application Modernization teams on---establishing---and communicating---common---approach---and strategies and target state for future adoption.---You will also partner with the Enterprise Cloud Enablement team to ensure patterns are implementable. 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 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, GCP, 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/.

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