Solution Architect

Company: Travelers Insurance
Location: Cheyenne
Posted on: March 16, 2023

Job Description:

**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.**Job Category**Technology**Compensation Overview**The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.**Salary Range**$112,300.00 - $185,300.00**Target Openings**1**What Is the Opportunity?**As an Architect, you will help lead the effort to create the technology target state for the "Personal Insurance Unit of a global, Dow 30 company. As a solution architect you will provide technical leadership and guidance to members of a value focused on modernization and currency efforts. You will be a dedicated contributor to senior Technology and Business leaders as they define a target state, roadmaps, and identify new and emerging technologies that will transform and optimize the business. You will humbly learn to be an inspired Architect working with a coach/ mentor. As a successful candidate, you have an established track record of building high-quality enterprise solutions. You are results-driven and bring strong engineering skills and a deep 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, helping establish and evolving a unified architecture vision.**What Will You Do?**+ Architecture responsibility within a major segment of Technology Architecture in support of the Personal Insurance business unit+ Leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions+ Hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions+ Partner with Software Engineering to execute proof of technologies+ Provides architecture direction for engineers in support of a technical pattern+ 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 Software Engineering+ Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise+ Participates in defining 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+ Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture+ Perform other duties as assigned.**What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?**+ Bachelor's in technology related field or equivalent with 4+ years of technology Engineering experience+ Organizational experience in an agile operating model+ Established work in proof of concepts and technology+ Strong proven Software Engineering experience+ Supports technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals+ Insurance technology experience desired+ Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models+ Innovation and Continuous Improvement+ If Cyber: CISSP, CISM, Security+, CISA or equivalent Cybersecurity certification preferred+ ust be passionate about technology transformations+ Has hands on experience in the last 3 years+ Executed technology modernization initiatives including migration to cloud native and API Strategy+ Current experience with AWS, APIs, accelerators, DevSecOps+ Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud+ Good understanding of security+ Experienced with large scale technology platforms+ If Cyber:+ Demonstrated proficiency in designing security solutions that align to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Cloud Security Alliance methodologies.+ If Information Architect:+ Experience modernizing data technology and information architecture on cloud+ Exposure and understanding of advanced analytics techniques using ML and AI+ Hands on experience with data technologies on cloud**What is a Must Have?**+ Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in work experience.+ Five years of experience in engineering software or analytic applications within a line of business area**What Is in It for You?**+ **Health Insurance:** Employees and their eligible family members - including spouses, domestic partners, and children - are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.+ **Retirement:** Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.+ **Paid Time Off:** Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.+ **Wellness Program:** The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals. In addition, our Life Balance program provides access to professional counseling services, life coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs. Through Life Balance, you're eligible for five free counseling sessions with a licensed therapist.+ **Volunteer Encouragement:** We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.**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.If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email (4-ESU@travelers.com) 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/ .

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