Head of Enterprise Architecture, AVP - Europe

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. 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.

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What Is the Opportunity?

As an AVP of Architecture, you will interface directly with senior technology leaders to transform our current business and technology capabilities and pave the way for best-in-class solutions. You will be a dedicated partner to senior Technology and Business leaders as you define a target state, roadmaps and identify new and emerging technologies that will transform and optimize the business.

As a successful candidate, you are a visionary executive with a track record of building high-quality enterprise solutions and teams. You are results-driven and bring strong Architecture and engineering skills and a deep understanding of modern technologies including Cloud-native, APIs, AI, and ML. You will work within a community of architecture leaders, charged with establishing and evolving a unified architecture vision.

Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working 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.

What Will You Do?

Organizational responsibility for a major segment of Technology Architecture 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 best talent

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 relevant technology Architecture experience.

Provided mentorship to architecture leaders.

Organizational and transformational Leadership Experience in an agile operating model.

Expert level Software Engineering awareness.

Led development of strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organization.

Developed technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals.

Proven track record of Influencing C-level leadership.

Insurance technology experience.

Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement.

Demonstrated ability to drive decisions.

Must be passionate about technology transformations.

Has hands on experience.

Executed technology modernization initiatives including migration to cloud native and API Strategy.

Current experience with AWS, APIs, Accelerators, Dev Sec Ops .Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud.

Good understanding of security.

Experienced with large scale technology platforms.

What is a Must Have?

Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in work experience.

Relevant experience in enterprise,…