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Overview
The AVP Architecture enables business agility by digitizing and integrating processes, systems and data to deliver services and capabilities that improve efficiency, increase value delivery, and ultimately improve the customer experience. The AVP Architecture actively engages in understanding business strategies and desired business outcomes to define simple, effective, resilient technology architectures. The AVP Architecture will manage solutions architects and cloud engineers to provide technical leadership for solutions and cloud infrastructure across multiple lines of businesses (Fleet and Insurance Protection Products).The Architecture team members define the system and solution architecture and partner with or embed in Scrum teams to communicate and adapt the architecture, rally around a shared technology vision, and rapidly develop skills and technology solutions. To accomplish this, the AVP Architecture promotes leadership and team development, a solid understanding of system/solution architecture and software engineering in a public cloud environment, an understanding of large-scale automated deployment, and a track record of designing high quality, available, secure, and useful systems. Responsibilities JOB DUTIES- Understand, communicate, and commit to the organization's vision, goals, and strategies Translate vision to technical solutions while balancing risk, investment needs and fit for purpose
- Collaborate with product management to define and communicate technical architecture roadmaps, IT information strategy and future direction
- Govern the adoption of technology standards and the investment to implement the standards
- Analyze complex issues, apply financial analysis, and use sound judgment to make strategic decisions that balance long and short term business goals and objectives Serve as subject matter expert for key technical challenges (eg systems/data integration/analytics)
- Foster open communication that welcomes information sharing, seeks input from others, and values diverse viewpoints
- Take an active role in defining metrics that measure our ability to deliver on business and service level objectives; use metrics to improve process and product
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Conform with all company policies and procedures
- Understanding of and investment in emotional intelligence components: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill
- Working knowledge of and architectural decision-making experience with public cloud technologies, particularly PaaS offerings
- Experience in software development and test automation relevant to the product team (eg mobile, web, or database development) with a drive for continual learning
- Experience with automation toolsets and a mandate to automate everywhere for repeatability, scale, and efficiency
- Experience working in and coaching Agile Scrum teams
- Ability to scope and lead creation of "minimum viable product"; prioritizing critical tasks, and utilizing test and learn approaches to iteratively deliver technical and business solutions
- Provide leadership through influence, inspiration, collaboration and teamwork
- Identify opportunities, facilitate ideation, and champion initiatives that deliver measurable business value
- Present team strategies and accomplishments to senior executives and peers
- Establish strong working relationships and build trust with peers
- Listen actively and communicate effectively with others both orally and in writing
- Apply creative thinking and negotiations skills to develop solutions that are acceptable to different needs
- High School Diploma required
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required
- 7-10 years of experience in information systems (experience should include extensive project related work, preferably application development projects and cloud based deployments) required
- 5-7 years of system/solution/enterprise architecture experience required
- 5-7 years management and/or leadership experience required
- 2-4 years public cloud experience preferred
- Subject to stressful situations
- Fast-paced office environment
- Strong focus on providing quality service to internal and external customers
- Limited travel may be required to support business needs
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