Data Architect - Digital Enablement

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

$118,800.00 - $196,000.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

As an Architect, you will help lead the effort to create the technology target state for the Digital Enablement 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 contributor to senior Technology and Business leaders as they define a target state, roadmaps, and identify new and emerging technologies that will transform and optimize the business. You will humbly learn to be an inspired Architect working with a coach/ mentor. As a successful candidate, you have an established track record of building high-quality enterprise solutions. You are results-driven and bring strong 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, helping establish and evolving a unified architecture vision.
We value and cultivate enjoyable working relationships among team members. This position is designed for you to learn and grow as a technologist. You must have a solid foundation and the willingness to learn new and apply new technology.

We have extensive learning opportunities because we passionately believe continual learning helps you better achieve your career development goals and contribute to forward-thinking innovation.

What Will You Do?

• Architecture responsibility within a major segment of Technology Architecture in support of Digital Enablement
• Data mapping and documentation for operational application data
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Line of business engineers to help adoption of AWS services (such as Athena, Glue, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB NoSQL, Relational Database Service (RDS), DataBricks and Snowflake) and Travelers Enterprise Capabilities (Kafka).
• Leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions
• Hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions
• Partner with Software Engineering to execute proof of technologies
• Provides architecture direction for engineers in support of a technical pattern
• 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 Software Engineering
• Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise
• Participates in defining 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
• 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 4+ years of technology Engineering experience
• Organizational experience in an agile operating model
• Established work in proof of concepts and technology
• Strong proven Software Engineering experience
• Supports technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals
• Insurance technology experience desired
• Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement
• 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
• Foundation in traditional relational databases (Oracle, SQL)
• Experience with either Snowflake or DataBricks and Kafka
• 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.
• Five years of experience in engineering software or analytic applications within a line of business 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 believe that we can deliver the very best products and services when our workforce reflects the diverse customers and communities we serve. We are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing the diverse talent of all of our employees and fostering an inclusive workplace, where we celebrate differences, promote belonging, and work together to deliver extraordinary results. 

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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Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

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