Lead Architect Information Architecture/MDM

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

Compensation Overview

The 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

$165,000.00 - $272,200.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

As a Lead Architect for MDM and Information Architecture, you will help lead the effort to create the technology target state for the Claim Line of Business 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.
In this role we will look to you to:
- Lead the Claim MDM strategy and architecture vision across operational and analytics
use cases
- Lead the data domain architecture for a modern system of record for Claim’s new Claim
Handling Platform
- Partner with Enterprise Architects and Claim Software and Data Engineering to achieve
Claim’s business outcomes for mastered data and data domains
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 a successful candidate, you are a visionary architect 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.

What Will You Do?

• Lead architecture for Claim’s MDM strategy and direction and the data domain
Partner with Enterprise architecture to design a comprehensive Master Data
Management strategy for Claim.
• Analyze industry trends and advancement to strategically inform MDM and
Information Architecture solutions.
• Partner with Claim Software Engineering leadership on the implementation of the
MDM strategy.
• Assume architecture ownership of the new Claim Data Domains, the system of
record for the modern Claim Handling Platform, ensuring it aligns to Claim’s
business needs and supports a best in class Claim organization.
• Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals
and technology modernization.
• Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt.
• 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.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelor’s in technology related field or equivalent with 7+ years of technology architecture experience.
• Experience with MDM tools, Informatica and Reltio preferred.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in work experience
• Eight years of experience in enterprise, application, and/or information architecture within a line ofbusiness or enterprise area

What Is in It for You?

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
• 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 program 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. 

In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.

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.

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