Sr. Director, Product Architecture

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. Success requires balancing deep architectural expertise with business acumen while creating an environment where teams feel empowered to innovate and deliver architectural solutions that advance Travelers' digital transformation initiatives.What Will You Do? Scope:Responsible for leading one or more architecture teams within one or more segments or domains for a single business unit.Technical Execution:Define target state technology architecture and roadmaps.Ensure alignment of initiatives to target state, enterprise standards and business objectives.Proactively identify opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise.Define and lead technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of new technology architecture solutions.Responsible for leading an architecture team within Bond and Specialty Insurance division.Define and execute the strategic architecture roadmap for platform modernization of Management Liability and Cyber products.Drive a cohesive domain architecture and integration strategy (for APIs, Events, Agents) across Product, Underwriting, Pricing, and Specialty Cyber domains.Drive continuous technology transformation and modernization, including to minimize technical debt.Strategic Accountability:Provide thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principles and technology modernization.Collaborate with and influence leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives.Optimize talent strategy to ensure proper mix of resources. Technical Expertise & Education:Bachelor’s in technology related field or equivalent, with 8 to 10 years of architecture experience.Advanced level architecture and recent hands-on strong engineering experience with modern technologies.Successful execution of complex, large scale technology strategies and initiatives.Strong architecture and recent hands-on engineering experience with modern technologies like Guidewire, AWS Cloud and Microservice-based architecture.Successfully architected large scale technology initiatives.Leadership & Influence:Extensive leadership experience with a proven ability to influence enterprise-wide technology and business decisions. What Is in It for You?

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