Senior Architect, EUR

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 170 years.

Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy: full‑time employees work three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part‑time employees). This policy may be changed at the company’s discretion.

Join our innovative team of Architects at the forefront of a major transformation program within the insurance industry. As a Senior Architect, you will play a pivotal role in revolutionising our technology systems. Embrace the power of AI as we integrate cutting‑edge technology across all facets of our business and technology landscape. In this exciting role, you will support the execution of architectural and technological strategies that drive the development and implementation of initiatives rooted in Common Delivery, Services‑Based Architecture, and Agility.

Your leadership will be instrumental in shaping our Technology and API strategies, leveraging increased automation through APIs and event‑driven architectures across our technology estate. You will provide visionary technical leadership for complex applications, guiding our team through the intricacies of modern architecture.

• Participates in or leads part of efforts in association with solutions, roadmaps, and architectural recommendations. Depending on size of application or scope of project, facilitates and/or executes the governance process (i.e., blueprint and design reviews) for projects.
• Implements the strategy for stability and performance of solutions (including project level design, debug and performance analysis) at the applications and technology domains level.
• Provides input into portfolio or prioritization process as well as how escalation for remediation of application stability and performance will be managed for scope. Ability to prioritize on his/her own.
• Contributes to and influences adoption of new concepts, ideas, techniques, best practices and technology assistance (best practices, guidelines and models for supported technologies).
• Collaborates with other architects, development groups, and OAI‑Sys employees.
• May participate in enterprise engagements and initiatives like Centers of Excellence and owns deliverables associated with these efforts.
• May participate in development and production support of application utilities and owns deliverables associated with these efforts.
• May participate in vendor and product management strategies to establish required infrastructures and frameworks and owns deliverables associated with these efforts.
• Owns deliverables associated with product evaluations and Proof of Concepts.
• Participates in the day‑to‑day execution of the architectural strategy.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Working knowledge of architecture technology directions.
• Working knowledge in enterprise, application, and information architecture.
• Working knowledge of product and/or project management and Software development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• General knowledge of technical reference architectures in Java, .NET, SQL and SOA required.
• General knowledge of experience with influencing people in a matrixed organization.
• Thorough knowledge of experience in multiple technologies and architectures.
• General knowledge of Insurance industry experience.
• General knowledge of experience in engaging with business stakeholders and turning requirements into IT solutions required.
• General knowledge of experience in providing architecture guidance to Development Teams.
• Thorough knowledge of experience in multiple technologies and architectures including: J2EE Web Application Development (User & B2B), Service‑Oriented Architecture & Web Services (SOAP, XML, REST), Application Frameworks (Spring, Struts, Hibernate, MVC, etc.), Middleware Technologies (Websphere, JBoss, Datapower), Relational Database Design (DB2/400,…