Director of Architecture - Global Specialty

Business Architecture Serve as a trusted architecture advisor to business and technology leaders.Facilitate architecture workshops, architecture strategy sessions, and solution reviews with stakeholders across the organization.Communicate architecture recommendations and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences.Influence architecture and technology decisions through expertise, collaboration, and strategic thinking.Build strong partnerships across business, product, data, and technology organizations. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or related discipline.10+ years of IT experience, demonstrating hands-on experience in designing and implementing robust enterprise level solutions with a broad understanding of traditional and modern software technology frameworks, platforms, vendor software solutions, development tools, and processes.Demonstrated management experience in leading software architecture and engineering teams; ability to coach and mentor architecture resources and effectively manage and shape team and individual behaviors.Strong architecture experience and background; can combine business, contextual, conceptual, logical, and physical levels of thinking.Experience in designing and implementing cloud and modern architectures including a strong knowledge of Integration frameworks and patterns.Experience designing and implementing Microservices or API-based integrations with clear understanding of JSON, REST, etc.Clear understanding of cloud and container deployment architectures including building cloud-native applications and container orchestration systems.Understanding of AI, ML and integrating data science models real-time into operational systemsExperienced working with agile development teams, methodologies and toolsets with alignment to architecture practices.Experience with DevOps practices including but not limited to continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) concepts and tools; familiarity with automated testing and code analysis tools.Experience with developing reusable assets such as prototypes, solution designs, documentation and other materials that contribute to department and organization effectiveness and efficiency.Has an Innovation and Continuous improvement mindset with a strong desire to stay on top of business and IT trends.Strong leadership and influencing skills at the senior management level.Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills along with behavioral change management experience. Enterprise Architecture frameworks and methodologiesBusiness Architecture and capability-based planningArchitecture governance and review processesInformation and integration architectureCloud transformation strategy and modernization planningInsurance business processes and technology ecosystems Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role.