Role: Business Architect/Senior Analyst (Life and Annuity Domain)
Location: Oklahoma City OK
Duration 6 Months contract
Experience Needed: 12 Years
We have an immediate requirement for Life Group Benefits and Annuity domain for a Business Architect.
Location is based out of Oklahoma for initial 4 weeks to attend workshop with client and then move to remote to accomplish respective delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
Enterprise Architecture & Strategy
- Define and evolve future-state enterprise architecture across business technology and integration domains.
- Translate strategic business goals into enterprise-level architectural plans and domain-specific blueprints.
- Facilitate the creation of target operating models and business capability maps tailored to L&A.
Business & Technical Capability Development
- Develop and maintain business capability models to support product innovation underwriting policy administration and surrounding processes.
- Collaborate with IT and business leaders to define and map technical capabilities that enable business strategy.
- Identify capability gaps and propose initiatives to build or mature key capabilities.
Roadmap Planning & Prioritization
- Partner with portfolio and program management teams to align architecture deliverables with enterprise roadmaps.
- Support the development of multi-year transformation roadmaps with clear prioritization of initiatives based on business value architectural alignment and technical feasibility.
- Facilitate architectural governance and investment planning across change portfolios.
Integration Architecture
- Define high-level integration patterns and future-state integration architecture between core L&A systems digital platforms and third-party services.
- Ensure architectural solutions enable interoperability scalability and compliance with data privacy and regulatory standards.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 10 - 12 years of experience in business architecture enterprise architecture or strategy roles.
- 5 years of experience in the Life and Annuity insurance domain is required.
- Demonstrated experience defining future-state architecture and capability roadmaps in insurance.
- Strong knowledge of core L&A processes: product development new business underwriting policy admin billing claims servicing.
- Familiarity with technology platforms used in L&A: PAS (e.g. EIS ALIP OIPA) CRM BPM data platforms APIs.
- Experience with integration strategies and patterns (e.g. API-first event-driven architecture).
- Strong analytical communication and stakeholder management skills.