Senior Architect: Cloud
Company: Travelers
Location: Hartford
Posted on: June 20, 2022
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Job Description:
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 OverviewThe 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 - $199,500.00Target Openings1What Is the
Opportunity?As a Sr. Cloud Architect, and visionary leader who
understands how the cloud changes the manner and economics of how
we innovate and deliver systems you will help lead the effort to
create the technology target state for the Bond and Specialty
Insurance Unit of a global, Dow 30 company. YOU will:--- Help build
the roadmap for our migration to the cloud.--- Provide
architectural strategy and subject matter expertise in one or more
of the following areas (dependent on knowledge and expertise):o
Cloudo Integration Patterns (including APIs & Events)o Design
Patternso Domain Driven Design (DDD) and associated techniques (ie
Event Storming)o DevSecOps/FinOps--- Provide overall technical
leadership for end-to-end solutions.--- Be a liaison across the
technology team to influence, advise on, and harvest cloud
practices--- Be a key influencer in the evolution of how we deliver
business value to our customers.--- Develop guidelines and
guardrails to enable teams to be more self-sufficient.--- Help
raise up the technical skill level of the teams you support.---
Drive a test and learn mindset through the organization.YOU should
join us if you------ Are a passionate technology professional who
enjoys solving complex puzzles.--- Understand the difference
between getting something out to market to learn, vs. delivering a
fully hardened production system.--- Are comfortable with
ambiguity; creating hypothesis and coming up with efficient and
effective ways of proving/disproving them is your everyday way of
working.--- Have the desire to be a lifelong learner, enjoy sharing
your knowledge by coaching others, and enable others to
continuously improve through coaching and mentorship.--- Measure
your own success by the success of the team and the satisfaction
you bring to our customers.--- Know how to have fun, while getting
the job done.As a successful candidate, YOU are a visionary leader
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 and APIs. 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 for Cloud Enablement both
within the business unit and across the enterprise.Primary Job
Duties & ResponsibilitiesArchitecture responsibility within a major
segment of Technology Architecture in support of the Bond and
Specialty Insurance business unitWorks with the Senior leadership
within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities
and direction to enable business imperativesDisplays strong thought
leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and
technology modernizationDrives continuous technology transformation
to minimize technical debtCreate a partnership with Senior Software
EngineeringLooks for opportunities to capitalize on technology
advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to
assess potential impact on the enterpriseDefines and leads
technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture
solutionsHands-on prototyping of new technology solutionsPartner
with Software Engineering to execute proof of technologiesDefines
target state technology architecture and roadmapsEnsures alignment
of IT initiatives with the target stateBuilds strong partnership
with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with
technology directionPrepares and delivers comprehensive
communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns
with enterprise strategyOptimizes talent strategy to ensure proper
mix of resources and attracts and recruits best talentContinuously
improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architectureMinimum
QualificationsBachelor's degree or its equivalent in work
experience.Six years of experience in enterprise, application,
and/or information architecture within a line of business or
enterprise areaEducation, Work Experience, & KnowledgeBachelor's in
technology related field or equivalent with 5+ years of technology
Architecture experienceProvided mentorship to
architectsOrganizational and transformational experience in an
agile operating modelEstablishes strategic technology direction and
architecture vision for an organizationStrong proven Software
Engineering experienceDeveloped technology target state, roadmaps
that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goalsProven track
record of influencing senior leadershipInsurance technology
experienceStrong grasp of value creation and business capability
modelsInnovation and Continuous ImprovementLed at least one
enterprise transformation to architect, design and implement cloud
migrationJob Specific Technical Skills & CompetenciesMust be
passionate about technology transformationsHas hands on experience
in the last 3 yearsExecuted technology modernization initiatives
including migration to cloud native and API StrategyCurrent deep
experience with AWS, APIs, Events, accelerators, DevSecOps, FinOps,
ObservabilityCloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
or strong architecture experience on CloudGood understanding of
cloud securityEmployment PracticesTravelers 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 .Job ID: R-14475Job
Area: Technology
Keywords: Travelers, Hartford , Senior Architect: Cloud, Professions , Hartford, Connecticut
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