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.

EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.
In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.
If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.
Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.
To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Take organizational responsibility for managing a major segment of Technology Architecture to support the Business Insurance business unit.
• Works with the Senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives.
• 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 Senior Software Engineering leadership.
• Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise.
• Defines and leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of new technology architecture solutions.
• Defines 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.
• Prepares and delivers comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategy.
• Optimizes talent strategy to ensure proper mix of resources and attracts and recruits top talent.
• Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

As an AVP, Architecture within the Business & Function Architecture organization, you will collaborate with senior Technology and Business leaders and apply your knowledge of modern technology to influence and innovate solutions that impact the business. In this role we will look to you to:

• Support the Business Insurance Technology Team.
• Lead the Product Value Stream Architects in supporting the Business Insurance technical target state.
• Support the Product Value Steam business capability needs through technology.
• Transform from application concepts to Domain Driven capabilities.
• Support the Enterprise Technology Solutions transformation and act as key liaison from Business Insurance to Enterprise Technology Solutions.
• Partner closely with other Value Streams to create one Business Insurance Architecture view