AVP - Architecture

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

$181,800.00 - $300,000.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

As an Assistant Vice President of Architecture, 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. As a direct report to a member of the Business and Function Architecture 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 and teams. You have helped lead major transformational and modernization programs and have a strong knowledge of when to leverage build vs buy decisions. 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?

• Organizational responsibility for a major segment of Technology Architecture in support of the Bond and Specialty Insurance 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 new technology architecture solutions.
• Defines target state technology architecture and roadmaps.
• Ensures alignment of IT initiatives with the target state.
• Builds strong partnership with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction.
• Prepares and delivers 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.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelor’s in technology related field or equivalent with 10+ years of technology Architecture experience.
• Experienced leading large scale transformation programs on major technology platforms like Guidewire, ServiceNow, Salesforce.
• 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 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 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.
• The ability to remain resilient and maintain a positive attitude in the face of challenges and setbacks.
• A strategic vision to align API architecture with long-term business goals and objectives.
• Ability to influence and persuade others to adopt new ideas, processes, or technologies.
• Proficiency in presenting ideas, solutions, and technical concepts to diverse audiences in a clear and engaging manner.
• Excellent problem-solving skills to identify issues, analyze root causes, and develop effective solutions.
• Strong teamwork skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and Circle/Value Stream leads.

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 of business or enterprise area.
• Two years of previous management experience.

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.

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