AVP, Senior Principal Enterprise Architect Data

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JOB DESCRIPTION:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines:

• Domain Discipline Strategy & Leadership: Define and drive a unified architectural strategy across portfolios/products within a complex domain discipline translating enterprise goals into actionable architectural roadmaps and modernization initiatives.

• Enterprise-Level Strategic Influence: Serve as a strategic advisor to senior business and technology leaders shaping investment decisions and transformation efforts that align with enterprise architecture principles and business value.

• Cross-Portfolio Integration & Reuse: Lead the identification and development of shared capabilities architectural patterns and platform solutions across portfolios ensuring consistency reuse and alignment with enterprise strategy.

• Portfolio/Product Architecture: Act as the Senior EA for one or more portfolios with full accountability for end-to-end architectural design and execution collaborating with ARTs product managers and engineering teams to realize solution intent.

• Architectural Oversight Across Domain: Provide architectural coordination and oversight across all portfolios/products within the domain ensuring alignment of solution intent architectural decomposition and application strategy with domain goals.

• Reference Architecture & Capability Strategy: Own and evolve reference architectures and capability strategies for the domain offering clear guidance for adoption implementation and enterprise alignment.

• Governance Standards & Risk Oversight: Lead the definition and enforcement of architectural standards and guardrails across the domain while maintaining visibility into the application landscape and associated risk posture.

• Technology Innovation & Evaluation: Evaluate emerging technologies and trends proposing domain-level adoption strategies that enhance business capabilities and support future readiness.

• Mentorship & Architectural Enablement: Mentor portfolio triads and architecture peers fostering a culture of collaboration systems thinking and architectural excellence across the domain.

• Architectural Practice Advancement: Continuously improve architectural methodologies processes and maturity across the domain promoting innovation and alignment with enterprise architecture frameworks.

• May perform additional duties as assigned.

Reporting Relationship

Typically VP or above

Skills Knowledge & Abilities

• Insurance Domain Expertise:Deep expertise driving delivery across multiple domains within Commercial P&C in an Enterprise Architecture role

• Enterprise & Domain Strategy Leadership: Expert in translating enterprise goals into domain-level architectural strategies and roadmaps that span portfolios platforms and business units.

• Advanced Enterprise Architecture & Agile Expertise: Deep proficiency in enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF) and SAFe Agile with the ability to guide architectural practices across multiple portfolios and teams.

• Cross-Portfolio Architecture Design & Integration: Skilled in designing and integrating scalable decoupled event-based and API-enabled architectures across portfolios ensuring reuse consistency and alignment with enterprise principles.

• Technology Innovation & Strategic Adoption: Strong awareness of emerging technologies and industry trends with the ability to evaluate recommend and guide strategic adoption across the domain.

• Architectural Governance & Risk Oversight: Experienced in establishing and enforcing architectural standards managing application landscape strategy and assessing risk posture across portfolios.

• Reference Architecture & Capability Modeling: Proficient in developing and evolving reference architectures and capability maps to guide strategic alignment solution intent and enterprise reuse.

• Stakeholder Influence & Strategic Advisory: Exceptional communication and leadership skills to influence senior business and technology leaders shape investment decisions and align architectural outcomes with enterprise value.

• Architectural Mentorship & Practice Advancement: Demonstrated ability to mentor architects and triads elevate architectural maturity and drive continuous improvement of architectural methodologies and practices across the domain.

Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Business Information Systems Computer Science or related field; equivalent experience considered.

• Advanced degree preferred.

• Typically a minimum of ten years of diverse experience in technology including enterprise architecture solution design business analysis and development across multiple portfolios or domains.

• Demonstrated experience leading architectural strategy and execution across complex portfolios or domain disciplines in a corporate environment.

• Proven ability to drive cross-portfolio integration shared capability development and alignment with enterprise architecture principles.

• Experience mentoring architects and influencing architectural maturity across teams portfolios and business units.

• Track record of providing strategic architectural guidance to senior leadership shaping investment decisions and transformation initiatives.

• Experience managing application landscape strategy and risk posture across portfolios or domains.

• Experience in the commercial insurance industry and relevant certifications (e.g. TOGAF SAFe Architect GCP) strongly preferred.

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