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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.Target Openings 1Job Description Summary As a Lead Architect, you will help lead the effort to create the "north star" technology architecture for the Claim Technology organization of a global, Dow 30 company. In this role, you will interface directly with senior technology leaders across the Technology Value Stream 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 leader with a track record of building high-quality enterprise solutions. You are results-driven and bring strong Architecture and engineering skills and an 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. Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities- Provide strategic thinking, solutions and roadmaps while driving architectural recommendations.
- Defining roadmap, reference architecture, guidelines and guardrails for Claim Technology
- Adopt and communicate new concepts, ideas, techniques, best practices and technology assistance.
- Architect end-to-end solutions across cloud environments.
- Explore technology and design patterns that will enable us to maintain our competitive edge in the digital world.
- Providing architecture guidance and decisions to product teams.
- Define pros and cons of solution options to arrive at consensus around architecture decisions.
- Influence and set technical direction for Agile Teams.
- Leverage defined roadmap, reference architecture and standards for Claim Technology and the Enterprise.
- Lead proof of concept efforts for candidate architectures.
- Perform product evaluations and proof of concepts.
- Assist in the remediation of application stability and performance.
- Perform project level design, debug and performance analysis.
- Work with product management areas to establish required infrastructures and frameworks.
- You will have the freedom to be open-minded, creative and self-critical.
- You will design solutions for new and exciting capabilities that will enable our customers to be better connected and engaged.
- You will have the autonomy to explore new processes, especially in the spirit of Agile - do what works, try new things, and stop doing things that don't work.
- You will utilize your critical thinking skills to analyze challenges and organize the team around a solution.
- High School diploma or equivalent required.
- 5 years of programming/development experience required.
- 3 year of experience as a technical lead required.
- Bachelor or Master's degree in the field of computer science or similar technical area preferred.
- 5 years hands-on solutions architecture experience.
- Self-initiated individual who consistently delivers high quality results with limited guidance and willingly trains, guides and positively influences others.
- Ability to learn the latest technologies and be self-started in running proof of concepts to determine how they can be applied to solve needs within the organization.
- Effectively communicates to diverse technical and nontechnical audiences, including engineers, scrum masters, peer architects, product owners, business owners, senior leaders, etc.
- Possesses strong foundational technical skill sets and architecture experience which can be leveraged as use of current and newer technologies is expanded in applications.
- Proven ability to create an architecture solution in alignment with the reference architecture. and utilize foundational services to address the quality attributes (non-functional requirements) of the solution.
- Ability to perform as a lead technologist to masterfully assess and design applications, systems solutions, and interfaces for multiple systems.
- Ability to influence teams to a future state while understanding the need to make practical. decisions along the way. Strong ability to create a following amongst a technical group.
- Knowledge of multiple development technologies including but not limited to .NET, C#, RestAPI, NodeJS, React, MongoDB etc.
- Experience with Cloud Services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform), platform as a service; micro-services architecture and architecture models is preferred.
- Cloud patterns including PaaS and IaaS, containers, microservices/API-driven and event-driven application design preferred.
- Container technologies including but not limited to Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless preferred.
- Security patterns including but not limited to OIDC, Service Mesh, Mutual TLS preferred.
- API management patterns w/ MuleSoft preferred.
- Excellent facilitation, discovery, analysis, and prototyping skills.
- Excellent critical thinking, problem solving, and analytical skills with a keen attention to detail.
- Strong aptitude for learning new technologies.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills.
- The ability to collaborate with a diverse group of people.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment and must be able to manage multiple requests at the same time.
- High motivation, self-starting, ability to work with minimal direct supervision, takes ownership.
- Insurance domain knowledge a plus.
- Agile framework practice a plus.
- IBM mainframe knowledge a plus.
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